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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.
2. It is a Transcendental Love we owe to God, we must love him above all other things. For he must be loved as our Felicity and End. He must have the chiefest place in our Hearts, and our principal design must be to please, serve, and glorify him. If we seek God in order to other things, we do not love him, but our own Lusts, nay if all other things be not sought after in order to God, we do not set him up as our chief good, or last end. He that loves Father and Mother more than me, is not worthy of me. Luke 14. 26. If any Man come to me, and hate not his Father and Mother, and Wife, and Children, and Brethren, and Sisters, yea and his own Life also, he cannot be my Disciple. Many have a partial half-love to God, but a greater love to other things; then God's interest will be least minded. For there is something nearer and dearer to us than God, which will be soon preferred before the Conscience of our Duty to him. No, all must be subordinated to our supreme Happiness, and last end, or else God is not loved as God.
2. It is a Transcendental Love we owe to God, we must love him above all other things. For he must be loved as our Felicity and End. He must have the chiefest place in our Hearts, and our principal design must be to please, serve, and glorify him. If we seek God in order to other things, we do not love him, but our own Lusts, nay if all other things be not sought after in order to God, we do not set him up as our chief good, or last end. He that loves Father and Mother more than me, is not worthy of me. Luke 14. 26. If any Man come to me, and hate not his Father and Mother, and Wife, and Children, and Brethren, and Sisters, yea and his own Life also, he cannot be my Disciple. Many have a partial half-love to God, but a greater love to other things; then God's interest will be least minded. For there is something nearer and dearer to us than God, which will be soon preferred before the Conscience of our Duty to him. No, all must be subordinated to our supream Happiness, and last end, or else God is not loved as God.