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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. USE, To persuade us to be contented with the meanest Estate, till Gods Providence call us to an higher. Every one must glorify God in the place where he hath set him: As in a Quire of Voices, 'tis not who sings the Base, or who the Treble; but who well discharges his own part, Base or Treble: So in our account, ⟨p. 107⟩'tis not what part we have acted, so much as how we have acted it; whether glorified God in the work which he hath given us to do, Joh. 17.4. If thou hast doubled thy Talents, though but two, Christ will welcome thee into the joy of thy Lord. 'Tis not who hath undergone the greatest bodily labour in Religion, or passed the severest Sufferings, or gone through the eminentest Offices, and Employments, but who hath most honoured God in his place, got most holiness in his Heart, been most humble and contented with his Condition.
1. VSE, To perswade us to be contented with the meanest Estate, till Gods Providence call us to an higher. Every one must glorifie God in the place where he hath set him: As in a Quire of Voices, 'tis not who sings the Base, or who the Treble; but who well discharges his own part, Base or Treble: So in our account, ⟨p. 107⟩'tis not what part we have acted, so much as how we have acted it; whether glorified God in the work which he hath given us to do, Joh. 17.4. If thou hast doubled thy Talents, though but two, Christ will welcome thee into the joy of thy Lord. 'Tis not who hath undergone the greatest bodily labour in Religion, or pass'd the severest Sufferings, or gone through the eminentest Offices, and Employments, but who hath most honoured God in his place, got most holiness in his Heart, been most humble and contented with his Condition.
USE 2. Is for the Encouragement of poor weak Christians, who have the Essentials of Godliness, tho' they be weak, and have not attained to the Eminency of many others: These should not be dismayed; there are persons of all sizes, and several degrees in Heaven, and they are all possessed with the same common happiness;