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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.
(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?
(5.) We must give an account at last to God: Luk. 19.23. He will demand his own with usury. VVhat honour hath God had by us as Ministers; Magistrates, Masters of Families, Husbands and VVives, Parents and Children, Masters and Servants? Beasts are not called to an account, for they have no Reason and Conscience as Man hath. VVhat 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 Countrey, should return no other account of his negotiation, than, I was busie at Cards and Dice, and could not mind the Imployment I was sent about; or a Factour, I spent roiotously that which I should have spent in the Mart or Fair; will this pass for an excuse?
(6.) What a sad thing is it to have Gifts for this end, to leave us without excuse, as the Gentiles have the light of Nature, Rom. 1.20. and Christians the light of the Gospel: Joh. 15.22. If I had not come, and spoken to them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin. Others have the Word preached to them,