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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. Consider the evil of Sloth. A slothful man and a profane man differ very little. Prov. 18.9. He that is slothful in work, is brother to him that is a great waster: the one getteth nothing, and the other spendeth all. Thou wilt say, thou art no ⟨p. 119⟩Drunkard, no Whoremonger: But thou art idle and negligent, so that you and they are Brothers; all the difference is, as between a Consumption and an Apoplexy; the one destroyeth in an instant, the other consumeth by degrees; the one is like splitting a Ship, that goes down to the bottom presently, the other like a leaky Ship that sinketh by degrees. Though you do not run into the same excess of riot with others, yet you are idle in the Lords work; it cometh much to the same effect, the Heart groweth poorer and poorer till at length it ends in final hardness. Nay in some sense Negligence is worse than gross Profaneness: Many from great Sinners have turned great Saints, but few from a lukewarm careless Profession have come to any thing. Therefore these are spued out of Gods mouth, Rev. 3.16. There is more hope of a Sinner, than of a lukewarm careless person; for he doth not think himself evil, and so is more liable to Security. God may give Grace to the one, but taketh away the Talent from the other.
2. Consider the evil of Sloath. A sloathful man and a prophane man differ very little. Prov. 18.9. He that is sloathful in work, is brother to him that is a great waster: the one getteth nothing, and the other spendeth all. Thou wilt say, thou art no ⟨p. 119⟩Drunkard, no Whoremonger: But thou art idle and negligent, so that you and they are Brothers; all the difference is, as between a Consumption and an Apoplexy; the one destroyeth in an instant, the other consumeth by degrees; the one is like splitting a Ship, that goes down to the bottom presently, the other like a leaky Ship that sinketh by degrees. Though you do not run into the same excess of riot with others, yet you are idle in the Lords work; it cometh much to the same effect, the Heart groweth poorer and poorer till at length it ends in final hardness. Nay in some sense Negligence is worse than gross Prophaneness: Many from great Sinners have turned great Saints, but few from a lukewarm careless Profession have come to any thing. Therefore these are spued out of Gods mouth,