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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.
3. In way of Opposition to God. Either to his Cause and Interest in the World. Isa. 41. 11. Behold all that are incensed against thee, shall be as nothing. The Creature beareth a big Bulk in the Eye of Sense, seemeth not only as something, but as all things; and as long as a Man looketh to what is visible, we have no Hope and Comfort to fasten upon. But what are the Swift, the Wise, the Strong to God, or against his Providence, when God is angry for Sin, and we use ordinary Means to avoid the Danger, and do not reconcile our selves to Him, and take up the Controversy between Him and us? Alas! Human Endeavours can avail nothing against his Wrath. Those probable Means, which have prevailed at other times, will prove a mere nothing. Be we never so strong and wise, and use never so many politic Means to avert the Judgment. Amos 6. 13. Ye rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to our selves Horns by our own Strength? They gloried in this, that their Strength was renewed and increased, and so hoped to elude the threatened Judgment, and to drive away any Enemy that might invade them. They glory in a thing of nought, saith the ⟨p. 262⟩Prophet. Alas! What are Armies, Troops, Confederacies, Councils? Things of nought when God will blow upon them. All things on this side God are of nought, and vain to be gloried in, when our Sins are come to an height, and Judgments are threatened and near.
3. In way of Opposition to God. Either to his Cause and Interest in the World. Isa. 41. 11. Behold all that are incensed against thee, shall be as nothing. The Creature beareth a big Bulk in the Eye of Sense, seemeth not only as something, but as all things; and as long as a Man looketh to what is visible, we have no Hope and Comfort to fasten upon. But what are the Swift, the Wise, the Strong to God, or against his Providence, when God is angry for Sin, and we use ordinary Means to avoid the Danger, and do not reconcile our selves to Him, and take up the Controversy between Him and us? Alas! Human Endeavours can avail nothing against his Wrath. Those probable Means, which have prevailed at other times, will prove a meer nothing. Be we never so strong and wise, and use never so many politick Means to avert the Judgment.