A51846:849
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.
5. You should harden your selves with no Excuse, or Reason, but what you dare plead, when you stand before the Bar of Christ: For then will the weight of all Pleas be considered. Now, God hath left all Creatures without Excuse, Rom. 1.20. There is some Witness of God to them, that convinceth them of more Duty than they are willing to perform.
5. You should harden your selves with no Excuse, or Reason, but what you dare plead, when you stand before the Bar of Christ: For then will the weight of all Pleas be consider'd. Now, God hath left all Creatures without Excuse, Rom. 1.20. There is some Witness of God to them, that convinceth them of more Duty than they are willing to perform.
Secondly, And more particularly, The usual Excuses are these:
1. Object. I have no time to mind Soul-Affairs; my Distractions in the World are so great, and my course of Life is such, I have no leisure.