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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 glory of God must be regarded in the first place, or, which is always concerned with it, the Advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and his Interest in the world. For all the Gifts that we have received, are for the Masters use: Though God cannot be enriched by any thing that we can do, yet he counteth it an Increase, if we study to bring him into request, or to advance the Kingdom of his Son. Therefore this must be our supreme End in all things; 1 Cor. 10.31. Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God: If in eating and drinking, and the use of our ordinary Comforts, much more in the supreme and Important Actions of our Lives, such as we would make a Business of: God must be specially eyed there. God only is independent, and self-sufficient, of himself and from himself: but self-seeking is monstrous and unnatural in the Creature; they are of him, and by him, and for him. Rom. 11.36. Of him, and through him, and to him are all things. The motion of the Creatures is circular, they end where they begun, Man especially. Other Creatures glorify God necessarily, we voluntarily and by choice; they passively, as they minister matter to the Beholders to glorify God; we actively, as we are to intend and seek his glory in all things: They are made for God ultimately, but mediately for man; but we are made for his immediate service, and should glorify him in all.
1. The glory of God must be regarded in the first place, or, which is alwayes concerned with it, the Advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and his Interest in the world. For all the Gifts that we have received, are for the Masters use: Though God cannot be enriched by any thing that we can doe, yet he counteth it an Increase, if we study to bring him into request, or to advance the Kingdom of his Son. Therefore this must be our supream End in all things; 1 Cor. 10.31. Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye doe, do all to the glory of God: If in eating and drinking, and the use of our ordinary Comforts, much more in the supream and Important Actions of our Lives, such as we would make a Business of: God must be specially eyed there. God only is independent, and self-sufficient, of himself and from himself: but self-seeking is monstrous and unnatural in the Creature; they are of him, and by him, and for him.