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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.
3. In the Day of Judgment; their works follow them into the other World: Rev. 14.13. Their Wealth doth not follow them, but the Conscience of having done well abideth with them: Conscience is Heaven or Hell to us; in Hell it maketh up a part of the Worm that never dyeth; so in Heaven, it giveth us Confidence; 1 John 2.28. and 1 John 4.17. That we may have boldness in the day of Judgment. Works are not Meritorious, and have no causal influence upon our Salvation, yet they have the full place of an Evidence, and so may wonderfully Comfort and embolden our Hearts.
USE, Let us labour to get this Evidence. The time of Death, is a time that will rifle all our false Hopes. You are in your Health and Strength now, but how soon you may shoot the Gulf, you know not; we are hastening into the other World apace. When you are immediately to appear before God, you will have other thoughts of the World to come, and the necessity of Preparation for it than you have now; that which will comfort you now, will not comfort you then; you must look that the Devil will then be most busy to tempt and trouble you, and as now he prejudiceth you against the Precepts of the Gospel, so then against the Promises of it: all your worldly Comfort then will fail, and have spent their Allowance, and become to you as unsavoury as the white of an Egg. Will this Comfort you, that you have sported and gamed away your precious time? that you have fared of the best, and lived in Pomp and Honour? Oh no; But this will comfort you, I have made it my business to glorify God, I have been Faithful in my place, have gotten some Evidence of the Love of God: It is not Riches or Greatness, or any Earthly Advantage will do you good.
VSE, Let us labour to get this Evidence. The time of Death, is a time that will rifle all our false Hopes. You are in your Health and Strength now, but how soon you may shoot the Gulph, you know not; we are hastening into the other World apace. When you are immediately to appear before God, you will have other thoughts of the World to come, and the necessity of Preparation for it than you have now; that which will comfort you now, will not comfort you then; you must look that the Devil will then be most busie to tempt and trouble you, and as now he prejudiceth you against the Precepts of the Gospel, so then against the Promises of it: all your worldly Comfort then will fail, and have spent their Allowance, and become to you as unsavoury as the white of an Egg. Will this Comfort you, that you have sported and gamed away your precious time? that you have fared of the best, and lived in Pomp and Honour? Oh no; But this will comfort you, I have made it my business to glorifie God, I have been Faithful in my place, have gotten some Evidence of the Love of God: It is not Riches or Greatness, or any Earthly Advantage will do you good.