PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 9
Thomas Manton · 312,957 words · 314 reading sections
Section 301
1. Because total omissions, against knowledge and conscience, espe- cially of necessary duties, are very great sins. That omissions are sins as well as sins of commission, appeareth from the nature of the law, which consists of a precept and prohibition. It enforceth good, as well as forbiddeth what is evil : Ps. xxxiv…
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3. Negligent unfruitfulness is a breach of trust, to which we are bound by covenant, and so a disappointment of God's expectation. To fortify this consideration, I need not repeat that all God's gifts to us imply a trust ; the very scope of this parable showeth it, aud it may Vers. 26, 27.J sermons upon matthew xxv. 4…
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3. Consider the rewards of diligence. This labour will turn to a good effect : 1 Cor. xv. 58, ' Your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord.' If there were nothing in chase, or not so great a reward, we had more excuse ; but when the reward is so full and so sure, shall not we labour for it? We labour and toil, and us…
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Use 2. If spiritual sloth be so great an evil, let the children of God take heed of it when first it beginneth to creep upon their spirits ; as when they begin to pray without affection or fervour of spirit, to medi- tate of divine things without any sense, affection, or fruit ; when they find it difficult to withdraw …
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2. Sometimes carnal men pretend certain causes and excuses, when their conscience knoweth it is otherwise ; and then the things alleged are not the real opinions and inward sentiments of their own minds, but something said or taken up to justify their sloth: 1 Cor. vi. 9, 1 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not in…
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Ans. 1. Whatever your business be, you have a time to eat and drink and sleep ; and have you no time to be saved ? Better encroach upon other things than that religion should be cast to the wails, or jostled out of your thoughts. David was a king, and he had more distracting affairs than most of us have, or can have ; …
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1. Every creature is God's servant, and hath his work to do wherein to glorify God ; some in one calling, some in another : Neither rich nor poor are exempted ; for a lawful calling is not a matter of necessity, but duty, enforced by a commandment. What our callings should be is determined by providence giving gifts an…
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3. That snuff at a little mock-service as if an intolerable burden : Mai. i. 13, ' What a weariness is it ! ' 4. The children of God may feel this temper coming upon them., when though they do not cast off prayer altogether, yet they cut off or abate and diminish their prayers, either in fervour, or frequency, or cont…
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484 SERMONS UPON MATTHEW XXV. [SeR. XVI. so great a treasure and trust : ' To him shall be given ;' lie shall increase his stock, and accordingly the comfort, benefit, and reward that belongeth to it. Yea, it follows, ' He shall have abundance,' TrepiaaevdtjcreTcu ; not a single abundance, but a continual increase, ev…
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2. That this increase must be understood of the same talent, not in another kind. It holdeth not, that he that useth the talent in one kind shall thrive in another, for what a man soweth that shall he reap. No ; the meaning is, the thing used is still increased. It is not intended that by employing his talent in riches…
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[1.] If you answer that an unregenerate man may by the use of common grace acquire and obtain the special grace of regeneration, and that the whole business lies in the good use of his will, you seem to dash upon the eternal purpose and decrees of God, by which he hath determined not to give all men, but only the elect…
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4. This gradual increase is continued, till at length all be full and perfect. The apostle proyeth for the saints, Eph. iv. 19, that they ' might be filled with all the fulness of God.' God keepeth filling still, till grace, begun here, be fully completed in glory hereafter ; and in heaven they are filled up with God, …
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1. Sometimes God taketh from them opportunities and liberty of doing good. Nothing is so soon lost as this : Gal. vi. 10, ' As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men.' There are some fit opportunities offered us by the providence of God for doing our duty in this kind, as are soon gone ; and being pas…
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492 SERMONS UPON MATTHEW XXV. [SEE. XVT. is at hand ready to light. We are always to watch and pray. If our enemy did not alarm us, yet our. Master will call us to an account for what we have done. And consider the danger of negligence. It befalleth to the idle and negligent, as those that came after the camp in the …
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.