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Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
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.
III. The third thing to be considered is the Illative Particle, Therefore. From what is this inferred? In the foregoing Verses, our Saviour speaks of Audience in Prayer. If ye being evil know how to give good things unto your Children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father know how to give good things to them that ask him? Therefore whatsoever ye would, &c. Christ makes many notable Arguments and shows that God is ready to give good things to us, Ask and ye shall have, &c. he proves it from the kindness of Earthly Parents to their Children. And now therefore to intimate this, that if Men have their Prayers granted, they must observe this Rule; they must perform all duties of civil Righteousness, as well as be earnest in acts of Piety. Upon this limiting it to the audience of Prayer, it plainly implies three things.
III. The third thing to be considered is the Illative Particle, Therefore. From what is this inferr'd? In the foregoing Verses, our Saviour speaks of Audience in Prayer. If ye being evil know how to give good things unto your Children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father know how to give good things to them that ask him? Therefore whatsoever ye would, &c. Christ makes many notable Arguments and shews that God is ready to give good things to us, Ask and ye shall have, &c. he proves it from the kindness of Earthly Parents to their Children. And now therefore to intimate this, that if Men have their Prayers granted, they must observe this Rule; they must perform all duties of civil Righteousness, as well as be earnest in acts of Piety. Upon this limiting it to the audience of Prayer, it plainly implies three things.
1. That God is the Judg of Human Actions, he will take cognizance of this, whether you do to others as they do to ⟨p. 364⟩you, and you shall hear of it in your dealing with God: that's the first and lowest thing: and remember you have to do with God, as much as they have to do with you: he shows this to bridle the Excesses of those that are in Power. There are a sort of Men that think they may do any thing if they can do it safely,