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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. The Manner of Proposal; I have set before thee.
3. A Duty inferred, or Attention excited; See.
1. The Matter propounded; a double Pair or Conjugation, Life and Good, Death and Evil. Life as the End, Good as the Means leading to Life: Or else, Life; that is, the enjoyment of God; and Good, the Felicity following it. The Septuagint changeth the Order, [Greek or Hebrew].
1. The Matter propounded; a double Pair or Conjugation, Life and Good, Death and Evil. Life as the End, Good as the Means leading to Life: Or else, Life; that is, the enjoyment of God; and Good, the Felicity following it. The Septuagint changeth the Order, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
2. The Manner of Proposing, I have set before thee. The Septuagint, [Greek or Hebrew]; that is, in a lively manner laid forth and offered for choice. We have a saying, [Greek or Hebrew]; that contraries put together, do mutually illustrate each other. Here is Good and Evil, Life and Death put together, that we may embrace the one, and eschew the other. As the Poets feign of Hercules when he was young, Virtue and Vice came to woo, and make court to him: Virtue like a sober chaste Virgin offering him Labours with Praise and Renown: Vice like a painted Harlot, wooing him with the Blandishment of Pleasures. So in the 5th of Proverbs, Wisdom and Folly are represented both pleading to draw in the Hearts of Men to them: ver. 4. compared with the 16th Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth Understanding, she saith, Come, eat of my Bread, and drink of the Wine that I have mingled: The one hath her Pleasures; and the other hath her Pleasures, only the Pleasures of Folly are stolen Waters, and Bread eaten in secret; Comforts we get by Stealth, Jollity, and Mirth, when Conscience is asleep. So here, Moses