A51846:687
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.
First, Sometimes by a slothful Laziness, and should that hinder us, especially us that are Servants to God? what man can endure an idle Servant? though he should not whore and steal, yet if he do not his work, you put him away. Every thing in the World costs Diligence, and shall not we be diligent in our Masters Work? How will men labour for a small Reward in the World, and is not Heaven worth our most industrious Care? shall not we be hard at work? 1 Cor. 15.58. The Reward is still propounded to the diligent. 1 Cor. 3.8. Every man shall receive his Reward according to his own Labour: 2 Cor. 9.6. He that soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly. Idleness is its own Punishment. An idle man is a Burden to himself, like a man buried alive: When 'tis Morning, would God it were Evening. He Contracts Distempers; a Key seldom turned, rusts in the Lock; standing Pools are apt to putrefy. David when he was idle, fell into those foul Faults: An idle man can think of nothing but the Delights of the Flesh, and so becometh a ready Prey to Satan.
First, Sometimes by a sloathful Laziness, and should that hinder us, especially us that are Servants to God? what man can endure an idle Servant? though he should not whore and steal, yet if he do not his work, you put him away. Every thing in the World costs Diligence, and shall not we be diligent in our Masters Work? How will men labour for a small Reward in the World, and is not Heaven worth our most industrious Care? shall not we be hard at work? 1 Cor. 15.58. The Reward is still propounded to the diligent. 1 Cor. 3.8. Every man shall receive his Reward according to his own Labour: 2 Cor. 9.6. He that soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly. Idleness is its own Punishment. An idle man is a Burden to himself, like a man buryed alive: When 'tis Morning, would God it were Evening. He Contracts Distempers; a Key seldom turned, rusts in the Lock; standing Pools are apt to putrify. David when he was idle, fell into those foul Faults: An idle man can think of nothing but the Delights of the Flesh, and so becometh a ready Prey to Sathan.