A51848:119
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added, three other distinct sermons / by Dr. Manton.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1685
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(3.) It reproveth, and disproveth those that put on a garb of Devotion, when ministering before the Lord, but are slight and vain in their ordinary Conversation: A Man should be in some measure such out of Duty, as he giveth out himself to be in Duty; For his whole Life should be, as it were, a continued Act of Worship. Prov. 23. 17. Let not thy Heart envy Sinners, but be thou in the Fear of the Lord all the day long. We should still live in a dependence upon God, and in subjection to him: Psal. 16. 8. I have set the Lord always before me: He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. In Point of Reverence, and in point of Dependence, because we are in danger to miscarry, both by the Delights of Sense, and ⟨p. 70⟩the Terrors of Sense: If a reverence of, and a dependence on the great God, do still possess our Hearts, we shall carry our selves more soberly as to the Comforts of the World, and not be easily discouraged and daunted with the Fears of the World: This is our Preservative, and maketh us true and faithful to our great End.
(3.) It reproveth, and disproveth those that put on a garb of Devotion, when ministring before the Lord, but are slight and vain in their ordinary Conversation: A Man should be in some measure such out of Duty, as he giveth out himself to be in Duty; For his whole Life should be, as it were, a continued Act of Worship. Prov. 23. 17. Let not thy Heart envy Sinners, but be thou in the Fear of the Lord all the day long. We should still live in a dependance upon God, and in subjection to him: Psal. 16. 8. I have set the Lord always before me: He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. In Point of Reverence, and in point of Dependance, because we are in danger to miscarry, both by the Delights of Sense, and ⟨p. 70⟩the Terrors of Sense: If a reverence of, and a dependance on the great God, do still possess our Hearts, we shall carry our selves more soberly as to the Comforts of the World, and not be easily discouraged and daunted with the Fears of the World: This is our Preservative, and maketh us true and faithful to our great End.