A51846:584
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.
(2.) Neither doth God give it away by bestowing Gifts upon the Creature: For he hath given us only Dispensationem, the employment of these things, not Dominium, the Sovereign power over them. Man hath nothing that is his own. As to Life, it is clear Man is not Dominus vitae, but Custos; which is true, not only of our Life, but of our Time, Wealth, Strength Parts, yea of all that we have: Still we are subject to an higher Lord, who hath an absolute uncontrollable right. All our owning is but a Stewardship, Luk. 16.2. We have a right to prevent the encroachment of our fellow Creatures: We have a right by way of charge and trust, as a Steward to things committed to him, or as a Work-man hath a right to his Tools or Instruments to do his work, or a Factor in the Estates committed to him; but an absolute independent Right we have not: They are not ours to use as we think meet. They were Rebels that said, Our tongues are our own, Psal. 12.4. Well then, when God dispersed his Gifts, he did not dispossess himself: As the Husbandman doth not intend to throw away his seed, when he scattereth it in the Furrows, but soweth it to receive it again with increase; so God.
(2.) Neither doth God give it away by bestowing Gifts upon the Creature: For he hath given us only Dispensationem, the employment of these things, not Dominium, the Sovereign power over them. Man hath nothing that is his own. As to Life, it is clear Man is not Dominus vitae, but Custos; which is true, not only of our Life, but of our Time, Wealth, Strength Parts, yea of all that we have: Still we are subject to an higher Lord, who hath an absolute uncontroulable right. All our owning is but a Stewardship, Luk. 16.2. We have a right to prevent the incroachment of our fellow Creatures: We have a right by way of charge and trust, as a Steward to things committed to him, or as a Work-man hath a right to his Tools or Instruments to do his work, or a Factour in the Estates committed to him; but an absolute independent Right we have not: They are not ours to use as we think meet. They were Rebels that said, Our tongues are our own, Psal. 12.4. Well then, when God dispersed his Gifts, he did not dispossess himself: As the Husbandman doth not intend to throw away his seed, when he scattereth it in the Furrows, but soweth it to receive it again with increase; so God.