A51848:457
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
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.) 'Tis very natural; we are apt to set stumbling-blocks in our own way, and matter of offence before our own feet. And take up every obvious pretence to excuse our selves to our selves, from hearkening to the Offers of the Gospel: Flesh and Blood will stumble in God's plainest ways; Hosea 14. 9. The ways of the Lord are right; the Just shall walk therein, but the Transgressors shall fall in them. They will count every Mole-hill a Mountain, and offended at every thing which concerneth God, and their Duty and Obedience to him.
(2.) 'Tis very natural; we are apt to set stumbling-blocks in our own way, and matter of offence before our own feet. And take up every obvious pretence to excuse our selves to our selves, from hearkning to the Offers of the Gospel: Flesh and Blood will stumble in God's plainest ways; Hosea 14. 9. The ways of the Lord are right; the Iust shall walk therein, but the Transgressors shall fall in them. They will count every Mole-hill a Mountain, and offended at every thing which concerneth God, and their Duty and Obedience to him.
3. A prejudicate Opinion and Malice is always apt to pick quarrels at Truth and Goodness; Acts 17. 5, 6. The Jews which believed not, moved with Envy, took unto them certain lude Fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a Company, and set all the City on an uproar, and assaulted the House of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the People: and when they found them not, they drew Jason, and certain Brethren, unto the Rulers of the City, crying, These which have turned the World upside down, are come hither also. So, Chap. 18. 6. They opposed themselves, and blasphemed.
3. A prejudicate Opinion and Malice is always apt to pick quarrels at Truth and Goodness; Acts 17. 5, 6. The Iews which believed not, moved with Envy, took unto them certain lude Fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a Company, and set all the City on an uproar, and assaulted the House of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the People: and when they found them not, they drew Jason, and certain Brethren, unto the Rulers of the City, crying, These which have turned the World upside down, are come hither also. So, Chap. 18. 6. They opposed themselves, and blasphemed.