PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 21
Thomas Manton · 313,086 words · 310 reading sections
Section 301
2. Is it because you would have God force you to be good whether you will or no, and by an absolute constraining power drive you out of your flesh-pleasing course ? Consider how unbeseeming it is to the wisdom of God that men should be virtuous and holy by necessity, and not by free choice. Virtue then were no virtue ;…
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Use 2. Of exhortation. To exhort you to repent and turn to the Lord. The Lord desireth not the destruction of a sinner. God doth not deny the sentence, or retract the law, only it is not his delight. Some abuse it to hopes of impunity, or at least to delay. VeR 23.] SERBTONS UPON EZEKIEL XVIH. 23. 475 First, To hope…
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[3.] There is no way of enjoying communion with Christ, but in a constant uniform course of holiness and obedience : 1 John i. 6, 7, ' If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, a…
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(2.) From self to Christ. When we think of turning to God, we cannotaccomplishour purpose without Christ. There is alegal exclusion against us. We come to God by Christ : Heb. vii. 25, ' Wherefore lie is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him.' To God as our chief good, by him as mediator : 1 P…
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[2.] Those that have begun already to turn to God. None are yet so turned but they need to be turned more. We still seek too much happiness in the creature, and do too little set our hearts on God : Col. iii. 1, ' If ye be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above.' Though we be turned in part, yet still we mus…
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Secondly, As self is misplaced and set in the throne of God, so self is mistaken. The soul is not counted self, but the flesh or the body ; and they value the interests of the bodily life before God and the true proper interests of the soul. The body of man is the worst half, vilissima pars liominis, the shell, the she…
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1. In troublesome times, he that would be at ease and security seeketh great things, and to be unwilling to undergo difficulties and dangers for God's sake is to seek great things for ourselves, for it, argueth a spirit wedded to its own worldly felicity. 2. The same disposition, allowed without check, would carry us …
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3. A disorderly ranking of means and ends. There should be a subordination of all our labours to higher ends. Baruch was not to consider of life and livelihood, but to discharge his duty ; but he look- eth to life and safety, and subordinateth the command of God to that end : Mat. vi, 33, ' Seek first the kingdom of Go…
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[2.] They have resigned themselves to God, are not their own, and have nothing their own, but in order to God : 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20, ' Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? For ye are bought with a price : therefore glorify God in your…
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