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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 is not a Forbearance of the Punishment on God's part, but a dissolving the Obligation to the Punishment. God may be angry with us, when he doth not actually strike us: As the Psalmist says, Psal. 7. 11, 12, 13. God is angry with the Wicked every day. If he turn not, he will whet his Sword; he hath bent his Bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death, he ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors. In the day of his Patience he doth for a while spare, but God is ready to deal with them hand to hand, for he is sharpening his Sword at a distance; he is bending his Bow: the Arrow is upon the string, and how soon God may let it fly we cannot tell: Therefore we are never safe till we turn to God, and enter into his Peace. Where-ever there is Sin, there is Guilt; and where-ever there is Guilt, there will be Punishment. If we dance about the brink of Hell, and go merrily to Execution, it argues not our Sin, but Stupidity and Folly.
1. It is not a Forbearance of the Punishment on God's part, but a dissolving the Obligation to the Punishment. God may be angry with us, when he doth not actually strike us: As the Psalmist says, Psal. 7. 11, 12, 13. God is angry with the Wicked every day. If he turn not, he will whet his Sword; he hath bent his Bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death, he ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors. In the day of his Patience he doth for a while spare, but God is ready to deal with them hand to hand, for he is sharpning his Sword at a distance; he is bending his Bow: the Arrow is upon the string, and how soon God may let it fly we cannot tell: Therefore we are never safe till we turn to God, and enter into his Peace. Where-ever there is Sin, there is Guilt; and where-ever there is Guilt, there will be Punishment. If we dance about the brink of Hell, and go merrily to Execution, it argues not our Sin, but Stupidity and Folly.
2. On our part our senseless Forgetfulness will do us no good. Carnal Men mind not the Happiness of an immortal Soul, and they are not troubled because they consider not