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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.
(4.) Talents are increased the more employed: We double our gifts by the faithful use of them. He that had five Talents, gained other five; and he that had two, other two: The more Grace here, the more Glory hereafter. If they be not employed they are lost. How many poor, blasted, withered Christians may we find, by slacking their Zeal, and for want of diligent exercise? But on the contrary, as the Widows Oil increased in the spending, and the Loaves multiplied in the breaking, in Christs Miracle, and the right Arm is bigger and fuller of Spirits than the left; So Grace that decayeth by diffuse, groweth by exercise. The Corn sown bringeth in the increase.
(4.) Talents are encreased the more employed: We double our gifts by the faithful use of them. He that had five Talents, gained other five; and he that had two, other two: The more Grace here, the more Glory hereafter. If they be not employed they are lost. How many poor, blasted, withered Christians may we find, by slacking their Zeal, and for want of diligent exercise? But on the contrary, as the Widows Oyl encreased in the spending, and the Loaves multiplyed in the breaking, in Christs Miracle, and the right Arm is bigger and fuller of Spirits than the left; So Grace that decayeth by difuse, groweth by exercise. The Corn sown bringeth in the increase.
(5.) We must give an account at last to God: Luk. 19.23. He will demand his own with usury. What honour hath God had by us as Ministers; Magistrates, Masters of Families, Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children, Masters and Servants? Beasts are not called to an account, for they have no Reason and Conscience as Man hath. What will you say when God shall reckon with you, what you have done with your Time, Strength, and Estates? If an Ambassador that is sent abroad to serve his King and Country, should return no other account of his negotiation, than, I was busy at Cards and Dice, and could not mind the Employment I was sent about; or a Factor, I spent riotously that which I should have spent in the Mart or Fair; will this pass for an excuse?