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A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton…
A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton in two parts : the first containing XXVII sermons on the twenty fifth chapter of St. Matthew, XLV on the seventeenth chapter of St. John, and XXIV on the sixth chapter of the Epistle of the Romans : Part II, containing XLV sermons on the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and XL on the fifth chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians : with alphabetical tables to each chapter, of the principal matters therein contained.
London: printed by J. Astwood for Jonathan Robinson, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Daily, and when you are in the greatest health and strength: We should think of our great change, Job 14.14. for Death doth not always give warning; and to ⟨p. 63⟩be provided doth no hurt. It enliveneth our General Preparation, and maketh us the more serious: 'Tis like poising our confidence, and weighing the strength and temper of it, to see if it can encounter the thoughts of Death and Judgment to come. A run-away cowardly Faith, that cannot endure the serious thoughts and supposition of these things, will do us no good: Presumption is a Coward. Besides, it riddeth off the present work with more success, when we live every day as if it were our last; and do all things as if presently to give an account to Christ of the doing of them. Once more, to familiarize the thoughts of Christs coming to us, it allayeth so much of the dread and terror of it as belongeth to bondage, and keepeth up so much as belongs to Reverence, and serious and awful walking with God.
1. Daily, and when you are in the greatest health and strength: We should think of our great change, Job 14.14. for Death doth not alwayes give warning; and to ⟨p. 63⟩be provided doth no hurt. It enliveneth our General Preparation, and maketh us the more serious: 'Tis like poysing our confidence, and weighing the strength and temper of it, to see if it can encounter the thoughts of Death and Judgment to come. A run-away cowardly Faith, that cannot endure the serious thoughts and supposition of these things, will do us no good: Presumption is a Coward. Besides, it riddeth off the present work with more success, when we live every day as if it were our last; and do all things as if presently to give an account to Christ of the doing of them. Once more, to familiarize the thoughts of Christs coming to us, it allayeth so much of the dread and terrour of it as belongeth to bondage, and keepeth up so much as belongs to Reverence, and serious and awful walking with God.