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Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677. The complete works of Thomas Manton
THE
WORKS OF THOMAS MANTON, D.D.
VOL. XVIII.
COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.
W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh.
JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh.
THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh.
D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.
ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presby- terian Church, Edinburgh.
^Beneral 'i?tiitor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, D.D., Edinburgh,
THE COMPLETE WORKS
THOMAS MANTON, D.D
VOLUME XVIII
CONTAINING
SERMONS ON SEVERAL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE.
LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.
1874.
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EniNBURGH AND LONDON
CONTENTS
Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture-
PAGE
Sermon upon Mark ii. 17, ..... 3
„ „ Psalm viii. 2,
13
„ „ Joshua vi. 26,
29
„ „ MiCAH vi. 5,
40
„ „ Isaiah 1. 10,
51
„ „ 2 Samuel vii. 27, .
62
„ „ Psalm 1. 5,
74
„ ,. Psalm cxxvii, 3, .
85
„ „ Philippians iv. 8,
96
„ „ Luke xix. 14,
104
„ „ Luke ii. 52,
116
„ „ Philippians ii, 7,
124
„ „ 1 Corinthians viii. 3,
134
„ „ Psalm Ixxxiv. 10,
146
Sermons upon Luke xix. 10,
155
„ „ Psalm xc. 1,
171
Sermon upon 1 Timothy vi. 9, .
189
„ „ 1 Peter i. 12,
202
„ „ Galatians v. 5, .
216
„ „ 2 Peter iii. 9,
226
;, „ Romans x. 5-9, ,
236
„ Romans x. 10,
249
„ „ 1 Corinthians viii. 6,
259
„ 2 Corinthians iv. 18,
274
Viii CONTENTS.
PAOe
Sermon upon Luke xvi. 25, . . . . . 295
„ „ 1 Corinthians xiii. 4-8,
306
„ „ Psalm Ixxxiv. 7, .
314
„ „ 1 Corinthians xi, 26,
326
„ „ Malachi iii. 17, .
337
„ „ 2 Timothy ii. 19, .
348
„ „ Acts xxiv, 25,
357
„ „ Proverbs iii. 17, .
367
„ „ Proverbs iii. 31, 32,
376
Sermons upon Proverbs x. 20, .
387
Sermon upon Acts x, 34, 35, .
405
„ „ Mark iv. 24,
420
„ „ Hebrews ii. 11, .
430
„ „ Hebrews xiii. 5, .
443
„ „ 1 Thessalonians v. 8,
453
„ „ Proverbs xiv. 14,
464
Sermons upon John i. 29,
475
SERMONS
SEVEEAL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE.
VOL. XVIII.
UPON MARK II. 17.
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, hut they that are sick : I come not to call the righteous, hut sinners to repentance. — Mark ii. 17.
The words are Christ's apology for eating with publicans and sinners. They thought no Jew was to eat or drink or converse with publicans, whom they looked upon as the vilest sort of men. Publicans are often joined with sinners in the Jewish scorn; thereby is intended 'sinners of the gentiles/ Gal. ii. 15, ' publicans and heathens,' Mat. xviii. 17 ; because by reason of their calling they conversed often with gentiles. Their calling was counted sordid ; hiring or farming the tributes. It is an Hebrew proverb, Take not a wife out of a family in which is a publican, because tliey are all thieves. They were wicked sinners in common repute. Now for Christ to be entertained in the house of a publican, and to converse so familiarly with publicans, this the phari- saical strictness and rigorous institution could not endure. The cavil was brought to his disciples and followers. They muttered and whis- pered about them words that tended to disprove this familiar converse, as not becoming the person which Christ took upon himself. The old hypocrites deal not directly with the master himself, but the young converts. Christ, when he heard it, vindicates his practice —
1. By representing the agreeableness of this converse to his office ; represented in a proverb, ' The whole have no need of the physician, but the sick.' Two things are herein represented —
[1.] That sin is a sore sickness ; a disease not of the body, but the soul. A mortal disease it will at length prove, unless it be in time cured ; and the disease is the more grievous because we are so insensible of it.
[2.] That Christ alone is the true physician of souls. He knoweth our malady and our remedy, and is ready, and offereth his help to cure, if we will but submit to his presoriptions. Now both make up his argument : Where doth the physician's work lie but among the sick ?
2. From the end of his commission, * I came not to call the right- eous, but sinners to repentance.' Where observe —
[1.] The persons with whom he hath to do, ' Not the righteous, but sinners.'
[2.] The way that he taketh, ' He calleth.'
[3.] The end, or means of cure on their parts, ' Repentance.'
4 SERMON UPON MARK II. 17.
[1.] The persons concerned.
(1.) Negatively, 'Not the righteous.' A man may be righteous really or putatively. Really there are none such before the tribunal of God of the sons of Adam. Either men must disclaim their stock or own their guilt. Putatively there are many such ; they have a con- ceit that they are righteous. The pharisees * trusted in themselves that they were righteous/ Luke xviii. 9. Now men puffed up with a spiritual pride, and a vain opinion of their own goodness and right- eousness, are altogether unfit to yield obedience to Christ's call, whereby he calleth them out of their sins. They are so good and holy already, they need no repentance. The heart-whole need not the physician ; he hath no work to do among them. They have no need of his skill; they do not value him, they care not for him.