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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 a Watching with respect to our future Estate, that we may be ready to meet Christ at his Coming. Now this consisteth,
(1.) In a deep and lively sense of Christs Appearing, and the whole state of the World to come. We look for nothing but what we believe. Faith is a realizing sight of things not yet in being; and maketh them in some measure to work as if they were at hand, and ready to be enjoyed. Now the more lively sense we have of the concernments of the other World, the more diligent and serious shall we be in our preparation; when we have a deep sense of these things, as if presently to be Arraigned; and walk as before the Judge to whom we are to give an account of all our actions. Most men live as if there were no day of reckoning, no God to see and punish, no Books to be opened; the careless spending their time showeth they have no deep sense of these things, no sound belief of them: But Faith looketh upon these things as great, sure, and near; and so keepeth the Soul awake, and alive. It greateneth our Apprehensions of these things: For 'tis no slight matter for the Creature to meet with his Creator, the Sinner with his Judge, from whom he must now receive his final doom. Faith doth speak aloud to a sluggish Soul, Thou must be judged, Rom. 14.12, So then every one of us must give an account of himself to God. And as 'tis sure, so 'tis near, The Judge is at the door, Phil. 4.5. You must hear of what you now speak and do, another day, Mat. 12.36. For, every idle word that a man shall speak, he shall give an account of at the day of Judgment. It suppresseth sin, and quickeneth and awakeneth to Duty, 2 Pet. 3.11, 12. Without Faith we have no sensible, awakening, practical knowledge of these things. The sight of Faith differeth from the sight of Sense. Sense can discern little more than we see, taste, smell, hear, and feel. We are affected with these things; so are the Beasts, who only see things before their eyes by the eye of sense. We see nothing but what Dogs may see, and Beasts may see; that 'tis comfortable to eat well, and drink well, and sleep well, and be well clothed, and walk up and down at pleasure, and pursue the advantages of the Animal life. There is a mist upon Eternity: How acute soever men be in worldly things, they are blind here,