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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.
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.
Answ. 1. Whatever your Business be, you have a time to eat, and drink, and sleep; and have you no time to be saved? Better encroach upon other things, than that Religion should be cast to the Walls, or jostled out of your Thoughts. David was a King, and he had more distracting Affairs than most of us have, or can have; yet, Psal. 119.147, 148. he saith, I prevented the Dawning of the Morning, and cried: And, Mine Eyes prevent the Night-Watches, that I might meditate on thy Word.
Answ. 1. Whatever your Business be, you have a time to eat, and drink, and sleep; and have you no time to be saved? Better encroach upon other things, than that Religion should be cast to the Walls, or justled out of your Thoughts. David was a King, and he had more distracting Affairs than most of us have, or can have; yet, Psal. 119.147, 148. he saith, I prevented the Dawning of the Morning, and cryed: And, Mine Eyes prevent the Night-Watches, that I might meditate on thy Word.