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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. The Watching unto Prayer, or before the Duty, is mainly to keep up a Praying frame, that we may be ready upon all occasions to call upon God. The praying frame lieth partly in Brokenness of heart, or a due sense of our Necessities; and partly in an earnest Bent of heart towards God, and holy and heavenly things; and partly in an holy Liberty, and Child-like confidence: If either of these be lost, how slack and backward shall we be in Gods Worship, or slight in the performance of it, whether in Closet, or Family, or public Assemblies, and slubber it over in any fashion! But when this frame of spirit is kept up, the Soul is mightily actuated and enlarged in the Duty. As when there is brokenness of heart, or a due sense of our Necessities, which is the occasion of Prayer; or an earnest desire of Grace, which is the Soul of Prayer; or our Liberty and Confidence is not broken, which is the great Encouragement of Prayer; then we are like light and airy Bodies, whose natural motion is upwards; so are we carried out towards God, and Prayer is our Element, in which we live and breathe. Indeed the whole spiritual Life is but a watching unto Prayer, that we may have always a readiness for Communion with God, 1 Pet. 3.7.
1. The VVatching unto Prayer, or before the Duty, is mainly to keep up a Praying frame, that we may be ready upon all occasions to call upon God. The praying frame lyeth partly in Brokenness of heart, or a due sense of our Necessities; and partly in an earnest Bent of heart towards God, and holy and heavenly things; and partly in an holy Liberty, and Child-like confidence: If either of these be lost, how slack and backward shall we be in Gods Worship, or slight in the performance of it, whether in Closet, or Family, or publick Assemblies, and slubber it over in any fashion! But when this frame of spirit is kept up, the Soul is mightily actuated and enlarged in the Duty. As when there is brokenness of heart, or a due sense of our Necessities, which is the occasion of Prayer; or an earnest desire of Grace, which is the Soul of Prayer; or our Liberty and Confidence is not broken, which is the great Encouragement of Prayer; then we are like light and airy Bodies, whose natural motion is upwards; so are we carried out towards God, and Prayer is our Element, in which we live and breathe. Indeed the whole spiritual Life is but a watching unto Prayer, that we may have alwayes a readiness for Communion with God,