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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. Nothing can be pleaded as Reason, which your Consciences are not satisfied with as Reason. That is the Reason there are so many Appeals to Conscience in Scripture: Do not your Consciences tell you, you ought to be better, to mind God more? That if these things be true, 2 Pet. 3.11. That all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of Persons ought we to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness?
3. Nothing can be pleaded by way of Excuse, which reflects upon God, as if he had made an hard Law. We are apt to plead so: The way of the Lord is not equal. The Woman thou gavest me, she gave me, and I did eat. Will you excuse your Idleness, and sin, by the Severity of your Master, and cast your Brat at his Doors?
4. There can be no Excuse for a total Omission of necessary Duties. In a partial Omission, the Law it self alloweth a Dispensation; as in case of Sickness, we are taken off from some Work, which God requireth at other times. But some things are indispensably required. John 3.5. Except a Man be born of Water, and the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Heb. 12.14. Without Holiness no Man shall see the Lord. Here is Necessitas precepti & medii.
4. There can be no Excuse for a total Omission of necessary Duties. In a partial Omission, the Law it self alloweth a Dispensation; as in case of Sickness, we are taken off from some Work, which God requireth at other times. But some things are indispensibly required.