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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.
III. What need there is God should be seen and sought unto in all our Designs, and Resolutions about the disposal of our selves and ours.
1. What will the Use of Means and second Causes do without God? When we have prepared best, and consulted best, the Intentions we travail with may miscarry, for the Event is wholly in God's hands. Prov. 16. 1. The Preparations of the Heart are from Man, but the Answer of the Tongue is from the Lord. Man propoundeth, intendeth, purposeth; but the Success cometh from God.
2. When we have done our Duty, and used such good Means as God affordeth; then we may quietly refer the Success to God, in whose Hands are all the Ways of the Children of Men, and upon whose good Pleasure the Issues of all things depend, Prov. 16. 13.
IV. The wisest and best of Men must not expect always to be happy, but must prepare themselves for sinister Chances;