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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.
1. By our proneness to Sin: If God did govern the world by Sense, and not by Faith, we should be other manner of persons than we are, in all Holiness and Godliness of Conversation. If we were sure and certain that for every Law we break, or for every one whom we deceive and slander, we should hold our hands in scalding Lead for half an hour, how afraid would men be to commit any Offence? Who would taste meat, if he knew there were present Death in it? yea, that it would cost him bitter gripes and torments? How cautious are men of their Diet, that are prone to the Stone, or Gout, or Colic, where 'tis but probable the things we take will do us any hurt? We know certainly that The wages of sin is Death, yet how little are we concerned at sin?
1. By our proneness to Sin: If God did govern the world by Sense, and not by Faith, we should be other manner of persons than we are, in all Holiness and Godliness of Conversation. If we were sure and certain that for every Law we break, or for every one whom we deceive and slander, we should hold our hands in scalding Lead for half an hour, how afraid would men be to commit any Offence? Who would tast meat, if he knew there were present Death in it? yea, that it would cost him bitter gripes and torments? How cautious are men of their Diet, that are prone to the Stone, or Gout, or Chollick, where 'tis but probable the things we take will do us any hurt? We know certainly that The wages of sin is Death, yet how little are we concerned at sin?
2. By our backwardness to good Works: Sins of Omission will damn as well as sins of Commission, small as well as great: It is not said, Ye have robbed, but Ye have not fed, Ye have not clothed; not, Ye have Blasphemed, but Ye have not invoked the Name of God; not done hurt, but done no good: And cast the unprofitable Servant, &c.
2. By our backwardness to good Works: Sins of Omission will damn as well as sins of Commission, small as well as great: It is not said, Ye have robbed, but Ye have not fed, Ye have not cloathed; not, Ye have Blasphemed, but Ye have not invoked the Name of God; not done hurt, but done no good: And cast the unprofitable Servant, &c.