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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.
6thly. How much we are concerned in all Conflicts, especially in those which allow Deliberation to take part with the Spirit, and obey his Motions, rather than to fulfil the Lusts of the Flesh: otherwise, by Consent and upon Deliberation, you are unfaithful to Christ, and your own Souls. Your Business is not to gratify the Flesh, but to crucify it, to over-rule Sense and Appetite, and cherish the Life of Grace, Galat. 5. 24. And surely when Conscience hath help to deliberate, it is a greater Evil to resist it, than when hurried by our own Passions.
6thly. How much we are concerned in all Conflicts, especially in those which allow Deliberation to take part with the Spirit, and obey his Motions, rather than to fulfill the Lusts of the Flesh: otherwise, by Consent and upon Deliberation, you are unfaithful to Christ, and your own Souls. Your Business is not to gratify the Flesh, but to crucify it, to over-rule Sense and Appetite, and cherish the Life of Grace, Galat. 5. 24. And surely when Conscience hath help to deliberate, it is a greater Evil to resist it, than when hurried by our own Passions.
7thly. It is of great Use and Profit to us, to observe which Principle decayeth, the Flesh, or the Spirit; for thereby we judge of our Condition, both in order to Mortification and Comfort.
The Increase of the Flesh may be known,