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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.) When the Heart groweth careless of Heaven, and your Life and Love is more taken up about things present than to come, Phil. 3. 18, 19. The contrary is found when Grace is in vigour, 2 Cor. 4. 18. Col. 3. 1, 2.
(2.) When the Heart groweth careless of Heaven, and your Life and Love is more taken up about things present than to come, Phil. 3. 18, 19. The contrary is found when Grace is in vigor, 2 Cor. 4. 18. Col. 3. 1, 2.
Secondly, The Prevalency and Increase of the Spirit is known,
(1.) By an humble Contentedness, and Indifferency to Plenty, Pleasures, and Honours. Phil. 4. 12. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound; every where and in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and suffer need, Heb. 13. 5. Let your Conversation be without Covetousness, and be ye content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.