A51846:914
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.
MATTH. XXV. v. 30. And cast ye the unprofitable Servant into utter Darkness; there shall be weeping, and gnashing of Teeth.
IN these words is the positive Part of the Sentence; the Master doth not only take away the Talent, but condemneth him to Eternal Torments. In them take notice, 1. Of the Reason of the Punishment; and then, 2. The Punishment it self.
(1.) The Reason of the Punishment is represented in the Notion and Character by which the Party sentenced is expressed, The unprofitable Servant. The word Unprofitable is sometimes used in a larger, and sometimes in a stricter Sense: In a larger Sense 'tis used for him that deserveth no Reward; so 'tis said, Luk. 17.10. We are unprofitable Servants. Sometimes more strictly and properly, for the Idle, and the Negligent; for them that do not their Duty, and make no Improvement of their Gifts: So 'tis taken here, and in many other Places; [Greek or Hebrew], Cast ye the unprofitable Servant.
(1.) The Reason of the Punishment is represented in the Notion and Character by which the Party sentenced is expressed, The unprofitable Servant. The word Vnprofitable is sometimes used in a larger, and sometimes in a stricter Sense: In a larger Sense 'tis used for him that deserveth no Reward; so 'tis said, Luk. 17.10. We are unprofitable Servants. Sometimes more strictly and properly, for the Idle, and the Negligent; for them that do not their Duty, and make no Improvement of their Gifts: So 'tis taken here, and in many other Places; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Cast ye the unprofitable Servant.