PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 14
Thomas Manton · 322,013 words · 314 reading sections
Section 301
3. A serious consideration of the object propounded to choice ; for otherwise, through inadvertency, the poorest paltry vanities may be preferred before the most excellent things in the world. Men do not consider, they do not weigh things : Eccles. v. 1, ' They consider not that they do evil.' They consider not 'there …
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[3.] That the intention of the mind should be much taken up about it. A glance does little affect ; the greatest truths work not if we do not 468 SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. [SeR. LXI. think of them. Moses, he had respect, dire/SXeire, he took off his eye from these things, and fixed it seriously on those things ; so a …
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[3.] Compare temporal good with eternal evil. As suppose men do pretty well with their worldly portion ; ay, but what will become ot them for ever ? Job xxvii. 8, ' What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul ? ' Put the supposition, every hypocrite doth not make a thriving b…
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VeR. 26.] SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. 471 with tins holy oil of the Spirit : 1 Peter iv. 14, 'If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.' Though eternity, and the great reward, puts all out of question, yet this is not to be overlooked. Use. To persuade…
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3. The next necessary grace is hope, which is a certain and desirous expectation of the promised blessedness. Therefore our hearts should so fix upon this blessedness, that we may not be diverted from it, either by the comfortable or troublesome things we meet with in the world. Either these things are greater than tho…
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474 SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. [SeR. LXIL but Moses despiseth the greatest enjoyments for communion with God and his people in an afflicted estate. 2. His faith is commended for his courage and resolution, when he carried the people of God out of Egypt after the tenth plague, whether Pharaoh would or no ; he feared not…
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3. Here is the end and benefit to be obtained thereby, ' Lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them;' that is, the avenging angel that destroyed the first-born of man and beast among the Egyptians, lest he should come nigh to do them harm. Now, as Moses celebrated the passover in assurance that the destroy…
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YeL\. 28.] SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. 477 the word of God : Isa. Iv. 3, ' Hear, and your soul shall live.' There is the command, ' hear,' and the promise, ' your souls shall live.' Make conscience of attending upon the word, and this shall be a means to beget and increase the life of grace in your souls. Therefore now w…
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2. Faith is necessary, that we may not be offended at the mean and VeR. 28.] SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XT. 479 despicable appearance in the sacraments. Here are excellent mysteries, veiled under the simplicity of a few outward rites that make no fair show in the flesh. Now a carnal heart is soon prejudiced. When Naaman, t…
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VeR. 28.] SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. 481 firm lis in our hopes of deliverance from that destruction wherein the whole world is involved by the law, and that he will indeed save us from the wrath to come. The Israelites sprinkled the door-posts be- cause they hoped for the jiassing over of the destroying angel ; and Ave …
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VeR. 28.] SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. 483 AppUcatio7i. The use is to instruct us what to do in and about the eupper of the Lord — 1. What to do before we come. 2. What to do in the supper of our Lord. 3. What to do after the supper. First, What to do before the supper. 1. Before we come to remember Christ, we must fi…
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2. For the manner in which j'ou ought to come. [1.] Come judging and condemning yourselves, and humbled under the sense of your own vileness and un worthiness, that Jesus Christ may be more sweet to you. Though you do not know j^ourselves to be the children of God, yet you must know yourselves to be sinners, condemned …
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[4.] Renew thy consecration, and consent to surrender and give up thyself to the tuition and service of Christ ; for the more we mind our duty, the more ready is God to prepare our comfort for us. The covenant is nnitual indeed : Cant. vi. 3, ' I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine ; ' though I cannot say he is min…
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Thirdly, What we are to do after the Lord's suppei-. Examine what exercise and increase of faith there hath been — Have I acted faith in 4S8 SERMONS UPON HEBREWS XI. [SeR. LXII. this duty ? how shall I know it ? If you have in the actin"; of faith been waiting upon God for the blessings of the institution, the effect…
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