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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.
Secondly, There is besides this, Hostis domesticus, the bosom Enemy, the Flesh, or the inbred Corruption of our Nature, that is ready to betray us to the basest Temptations, and to open the Gates to the Enemy without. Man needeth no Devil to tempt him, we have enough in our own bosoms to prompt and urge us to sin. Jam. 1.5. The Spirit in us lusteth to envy. Gen. 6.5. The thoughts and imaginations of our hearts are evil continually: 'Tis easy to set Tinder, Gunpowder, or Flax on fire, and therefore they had need to be kept asunder: We cannot be too careful, the best of us have a good self and a bad self; the one must watch over the other, or all will come to ruin, and Grace will be ready to die. Rev. 2.2. Be watchful and ⟨p. 74⟩strengthen the things that remain, that are ready to die. From whence cometh the vanity of our Minds, our proneness to break the bounds of due liberty in all our Comforts; our readiness to err in Speech, our frequent Miscarriages in Conversation, our frequent unfitness for holy Duties, our unfruitfulness in our Conversing with others, our unsettledness in our Consciences, our immoderate cares and fears; whence I say, cometh all this, but from our want of Watching against this inward Enemy our Flesh? Especially when temptations are near, importunate and constant. We proceed every step to Heaven by Conflict, and Contest, because Sin is always at hand, ready to assault us, and taint us: So that a serious Christian cannot but take himself to be still in danger.
Secondly, There is besides this, Hostis domesticus, the bosom Enemy, the Flesh, or the inbred Corruption of our Nature, that is ready to betray us to the basest Temptations, and to open the Gates to the Enemy without. Man needeth no Devil to tempt him, we have enough in our own bosoms to prompt and urge us to sin. Jam. 1.5. The Spirit in us lusteth to envy. Gen. 6.5. The thoughts and imaginations of our hearts are evil continually: 'Tis easie to set Tinder, Gunpowder, or Flax on fire, and therefore they had need to be kept asunder: We cannot be too careful, the best of us have a good self and a bad self; the one must watch over the other, or all will come to ruine, and Grace will be ready to die.