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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.
(1.) It would much quicken us to Repentance. Acts 3. 19. Repent and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out, when the day of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. All things shall be reviewed at Christ's coming, and some Mens Sins remain, and others are blotted out: None but those that are converted and turned to God can expect that Benefit. Unless we be recovered from the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, and brought back again in Heart and Life to God, there will be no escape. Now those that wait for this day, should prepare for it, that they may stand in the Judgment with comfort. The wicked shall have Judgment without Mercy, but the Believer shall be accepted upon terms of Grace. Days of torment shall come to the one from the presence of the Lord, and days of refreshing shall come to the other. The state in the World of believing Penitents is a time of Conflict, Labour and Sorrow, but this trouble and toil is then over, and they shall enjoy their rest. Consider these things, Where would you have your refreshment, and in what? Many seek their refreshing now either in brutish pleasures, and sit down under the shadow of some earthly Gourd, which soon withers; but those that seek their refreshment in the enjoyment of God, shall then be satisfied. Nothing certainly makes us ⟨p. 133⟩so solicitous about a serious Reconciliation with God, as the Consideration of this Day.
(1.) It would much quicken us to Repentance. Acts 3. 19. Repent and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out, when the day of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. All things shall be reviewed at Christ's coming, and some Mens Sins remain, and others are blotted out: None but those that are converted and turned to God can expect that Benefit. Unless we be recovered from the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, and brought back again in Heart and Life to God, there will be no escape. Now those that wait for this day, should prepare for it, that they may stand in the Judgment with comfort. The wicked shall have Judgment without Mercy, but the Believer shall be accepted upon terms of Grace. Days of torment shall come to the one from the presence of the Lord, and days of refreshing shall come to the other. The state in the World of believing Penitents is a time of Conflict, Labour and Sorrow, but this trouble and toil is then over, and they shall enjoy their rest. Consider these things, Where would you have your refreshment, and in what? Many seek their refreshing now either in brutish pleasures, and sit down under the shadow of some earthly Gourd, which soon withers; but those that seek their refreshment in the enjoyment of God, shall then be satisfied. Nothing certainly makes us