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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.
(2.) On the wickeds part; 'tis necessary they should have a time of Improvement, that they may be left without excuse; Rom. 9.22. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. 'Tis for the glory of God, that he should take them when ripe: Then the Angel thrusts in his sickle, Rev. 14.15. Therefore they have longer time of prospering in their sinful ways.
(2.) On the wickeds part; 'tis necessary they should have a time of Improvement, that they may be left without excuse; Rom. 9.22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. 'Tis for the glory of God, that he should take them when ripe: Then the Angel thrusts in his sickle, Rev. 14.15. Therefore they have longer time of prospering in their sinful wayes.
1. Let us not make an ill use of this, either to deny, or doubt of his Coming, as those, 2 Pet. 3.3. or of slackening, or putting off your Preparation, as the naughty Servant, Mat. 24.48, 49. But let us wait with patience, and hold out to the very last. Saul held out till Samuel was even ready to come, and so forced himself to offer Sacrifice, whereby he lost his Kingdom; 1 Sam. 13.8, 9. If he had stayed a little longer, Samuel had come: So many grow weary of doing and suffering, and miscarry in the very Haven. We wait in ordinary things,