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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 next thing that we exhort you to, is to believe the certainty, consider the weight and importance of these Truths; that there is a difference between Good and Evil, that the fruit of the one is Death, of the other Life; and consider how irrational it is for a Man to love Death, and refuse Life. No Man in his right Wits can make a doubt which to choose. In vain is the Snare laid in the sight of any Bird. Prov. 1. 17. You cannot drive a dull Ass into the Fire that is kindled before his Eyes. It is true you hate Death, and yet it is proper to say, you choose it. Prov. 8. 36. All they that hate me, love Death. Why refusing the Good, do you so eagerly pursue the Evil? How can ye hate the Wages, and yet love the Work by which the Wages is to be earned, and in requital of which it will be certainly paid? If you detest Hell, why not Sin? if you love Heaven, why do not you do good? There is an inseparable Connection between these. Who can pity the Torment of that Man that thrusts his Hand into the Fire? What should be the cause of this, but Incredulity and Inconsideration?
2. The next thing that we exhort you to, is to believe the certainty, consider the weight and importance of these Truths; that there is a difference beetween Good and Evil, that the fruit of the one is Death, of the other Life; and consider how irrational it is for a Man to love Death, and refuse Life. No Man in his right Wits can make a doubt which to choose. In vain is the Snare laid in the sight of any Bird. Prov. 1. 17. You cannot drive a dull Ass into the Fire that is kindled before his Eyes. It is true you hate Death, and yet it is proper to say, you choose it. Prov. 8. 36. All they that hate me, love Death. Why refusing the Good, do you so eagerly pursue the Evil? How can ye hate the Wages, and yet love the Work by which the Wages is to be earned, and in requital of which it will be certainly paid? If you detest Hell, why not Sin? if you love Heaven, why do not you do good? There is an inseparable Connection between these. Who can pitty the Torment of that Man that thrusts his Hand into the Fire? What should be the cause of this, but Incredulity and Inconsideration?