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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.
Thirdly, Self-love. Phil. 2.21. All men seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. Many care not how it goeth with Christ's Matters, if their particular go right; they serve their own worldly Ease, Profit, Credit, Pleasure.
Thirdly, Self-love. Phil. 2.21. All men seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. Many care not how it goeth with Chrsts Matters, if their particular go right; they serve their own worldly Ease, Profit, Credit, Pleasure.
Fourthly, Distracting Businesses, or love to the World; this is digging in the Earth, and hiding our Talent indeed. 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forsaken me, and embraced the present World.
Fifthly, Fear of Danger, if publicly Active for God: some are so Cowardly, that they are Brow-beaten with a frown; cannot venture a lesser Interest, cannot bear a Scoff or a disgraceful Word; therefore sneak, loath to own what they are, or to do for Christ and his despised Cause; this is not a Christian Frame: Phil. 1.28. In nothing terrified by your Adversaries, which to them is a Token of Perdition, but to you of Salvation, and that of God. It looketh like Christs Business, he speaketh of Endeavours to propagate the Faith of Christ, and to gain men to embrace the Gospel.
Fifthly, Fear of Danger, if publickly Active for God: some are so Cowardly, that they are Brow-beaten with a frown; cannot venture a lesser Interest, cannot bear a Scoff or a disgraceful Word; therefore sneak, loath to own what they are, or to do for Christ and his despised Cause; this is not a Christian Frame: