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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
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(3.) That to this Lord of ours we must be answerable, who will one day call us to an account. Or will you take one of them, if all be too many to be remembered by you; and that one implieth all the rest: Ye are not your own, but are bought with a price. If a man did think of this, My heart is not my own, 'tis Gods, and he must have it; he would not fill it with the dross of evil thoughts: My time is not my own, my Tongue, my Wit, my Language; 'tis not my own. Would the Prodigal waste his Estate so vainly? reprove him, and he will tell you, I spend but my own. The Covetous man saith, Shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh, and give it to men that I know not? 1 Sam. 25.11. How easily might you persuade him to Charity, could you convince him 'tis another's Goods, and to be laid out when the Lord hath need of it. It would check our pride to consider who made us to differ, 1 Cor. 4.7. Alas Master, 'twas borrowed, as Elisha's Servant told his Master. A Groom is proud of his Masters Horse: They are proud of that which is none of theirs, that are proud of their Parts, and proud of their Estates. Yea, it would check our spiritual pride, when we have done any thing for God, or suffered any thing for God, or given any thing for Gods sake, 1 Chron. 29.12, 13, 14. Of thine own have we given thee, for all is thine.
(3.) That to this Lord of ours we must be answerable, who will one day call us to an account. Or will you take one of them, if all be too many to be remembred by you; and that one implyeth all the rest: Ye are not your own, but are bought with a price. If a man did think of this, My heart is not my own, 'tis Gods, and he must have it; he would not fill it with the dross of evil thoughts: My time is not my own, my Tongue, my Wit, my Language; 'tis not my own. Would the Prodigal waste his Estate so vainly? reprove him, and he will tell you, I spend but my own. The Covetous man saith, Shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh, and give it to men that I know not? 1 Sam. 25.11. How easily might you perswade him to Charity, could you convince him 'tis anothers Goods, and to be laid out when the Lord hath need of it. It would check our pride to consider who made us to differ,