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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.) The third Prejudice is, That he is hard to please, and easily offended: As if he did watch advantages to ruin and destroy the Creature. Oh! No, This cannot be thought of God: He that rewarded the Picture and shadow of duty, as in Ahab, 1 Kings 21.29. the first offers of it in his Servants, Isa. 32.5. that regarded the returning Prodigal, Luke 15.20. Isa. 65.24. whose Bowels relent presently; who hath promised to reward a Cup of cold Water given for Christs sake, Mat. 10.42. and that our slender Services should receive so great a Reward, that beareth with his peoples weakness, that spareth them as a man spareth his only Son; by their failing, surely he is not harsh and severe.
(3.) The third Prejudice is, That he is hard to please, and easily offended: As if he did watch advantages to ruine and destroy the Creature. Oh! No, This cannot be thought of God: He that rewarded the Picture and shadow of duty, as in Ahab, 1 Kings 21.29. the first offers of it in his Servants, Isa. 32.5. that regarded the returning Prodigal, Luke 15.20. Isa. 65.24. whose Bowels relent presently; who hath promised to reward a Cup of cold Water given for Christs sake, Mat. 10.42. and that our slender Services should receive so great a Reward, that beareth with his peoples weakness, that spareth them as a man spareth his only Son; by their failing, surely he is not harsh and severe.