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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.
3. In point of Ingenuity: We receive a plenteous recompense for a small service. When a man thinketh what God hath provided for them that love him, and serve him, he should be ashamed that he receives so much, and does so little; and therefore he should redeem all the time that he can, that he may answer his expectations from God. Shall we adjourn and put off God to our decrepit time, when he hath provided for us eternal happiness? Can a man that hath any ingenuity in his breast, be content to dishonour God longer, grieve his Spirit longer, provided that at length he may be saved? Those that have any due sense of Gods kindness, or their own duty, will think God hath too long been kept out of his right, and that all the time that remaineth is too little to express our love and thankfulness to him, 1 Pet. 4.3. Men that do delay, do in effect say, Let me despise thy Commands, and abuse thy Mercy a little longer; but then when my Lusts are satisfied, and youthful heats are spent, I will see what I can do to be saved. What baseness of Spirit is this!
3. In point of Ingenuity: We receive a plenteous recompence for a small service. When a man thinketh what God hath provided for them that love him, and serve him, he should be ashamed that he receives so much, and does so little; and therefore he should redeem all the time that he can, that he may answer his expectations from God. Shall we adjourn and put off God to our decrepid time, when he hath provided for us eternal happiness? Can a man that hath any ingenuity in his breast, be content to dishonour God longer, grieve his Spirit longer, provided that at length he may be saved? Those that have any due sense of Gods kindness, or their own duty, will think God hath too long been kept out of his right, and that all the time that remaineth is too little to express our love and thankfulness to him, 1 Pet. 4.3. Men that do delay, do in effect say, Let me despise thy Commands, and abuse thy Mercy a little longer; but then when my Lusts are satisfied, and youthful heats are spent, I will see what I can do to be saved. What baseness of Spirit is this!