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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.) Do not please your selves by being of such a Sect, or such a Profession. Men think the safest place to lie asleep in, is Christs own lap: If they are of such a party, they think they are safe: but consider, Lead may be cast into all forms, an Angel or Devil, but 'tis Lead still. Consider, God is an exact and impartial Judge, 1 Pet 3.17. If you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth all men; his People as well as others, if they build upon their Profession. Do not content your selves with a Form of Godliness, though never so strict, nor a Name of Godliness though never so renowned. These were Virgins, not defiled with Error or Idolatry, or the scandalous customs or fashions of the world; yet some of them were foolish Virgins.
(1.) Do not please your selves by being of such a Sect, or such a Profession. Men think the safest place to lie asleep in, is Christs own lap: If they are of such a party, they think they are safe: but consider, Lead may be cast into all forms, an Angel or Devil, but 'tis Lead still. Consider, God is an exact and impartial Judge, 1 Pet 3.17. If you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth all men; his People as well as others, if they build upon their Profession. Do not content your selves with a Form of Godliness, though never so strict, nor a Name of Godliness though never so renowned. These were Virgins, not defiled with Errour or Idolatry, or the scandalous customs or fashions of the world; yet some of them were foolish Virgins.
(2.) Do not content your selves that you do not take up a Profession and an Intention of Religion merely to serve the times, and your selves of it, not knowing your selves intentionally and industriously to counterfeit; as Judas that followed Christ for the Bag, being in his Heart a Traitor, and a Thief from the beginning, John 13.6. or as Simon Magus at first hoped to make as good Market of his new Faith as his old Sorcery, professed to believe in Christ out of design. Nay, a man that for any thing he knoweth or perceiveth, may think that he is in good earnest, yet he may be a Temporary, though he is no Temporizer. Christ knew them that knew not themselves,