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A51846	A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton in two parts : the first containing XXVII sermons on the twenty fifth chapter of St. Matthew, XLV on the seventeenth chapter of St. John, and XXIV on the sixth chapter of the Epistle of the Romans : Part II, containing XLV sermons on the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and XL on the fifth chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians : with alphabetical tables to each chapter, of the principal matters therein contained.; Sermons. Selections	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1684 (1684)	Wing M534; ESTC R19254	2,416,917	1,476

partly under the vail of the natural life 'T is a life within a life they live in the flesh as others do but they do not live after the flesh they eat drink sleep trade marry and give in marriage as the rest of the world do but all these things are governed by Grace and carried on to high and eternal ends The spirit and life is not seen and felt by others but only discovered in the effects as these things are carried on holily and with a sincere respect to Gods Glory 1 Cor. 10.31 Besides the effects are imperfect and clouded with a mixture of remaining infirmities the best Christians shew forth too much of the flesh and do not act as those that have the spirit of God dwelling in them now this is a great hindrance to the converting of the world and a means of hardning to prying Atheists who think all strictness is but a pretence 1 Cor. 3.3 While there is yet strife envyings and divisions among you are ye not carnal and walk as men Matth. 18.7 Wo to the world because of offences for it must needs be that offences come but wo to the man by whom the offence cometh 'T is dangerous to scandalize the world but the chief cause is their secret enmity to holiness they censure and traduce good men by reproaches and base misprisions and cannot endure that those that take a contrary course should have an excellency owned that might alarm their consciences to reverence 1 Pet. 4.6 Judged according to men in the flesh but live to God in the spirit as deceivers and yet true So reputed in the world as a company of dissemblers the worlds malice will not give them leave to see any good in those whom they dislike 3. It sheweth how much it becometh Christians to give such a demonstration and proof of the spirits dwelling in them that others may be able to say they are not in the flesh but in the spirit So did these Romans to Paul they gave ground for his charity to think them justfied so should all that are sincere do Now these others may be either the godly or the carnal world First for the godly who are best able to judg they have cause to think so when you are companions with them in the Faith Holiness and patience of the Gospel the men in the world are tied to one another like Sampsons Foxes by their tails tho their heads look several ways by their mutual interests and common agreement in mischief and enmity to the godly but the godly themselves should be joined together in the communion of the spirit loving one another with a Christ-like love and seeking each others good as their own and being affected with mutual sympathy towards each others condition as if it were their own case and with one mind and mouth glorifying God and promoting the interests of his kingdom and by their personal holiness bringing his honour in request in the world surely whoever do so we are to judg them heirs with us of the same grace of life and to bless God for them Secondly for the carnal world you must keep up the majesty of your profession that they may see there is a generation of men whose life is not spent in carnal pleasures and delights who are not as other men nor as themselves once were and do things which can be accomplished in them by no other Means or Agent than the Spirit of God Who in their common business act upon reasons and principles of Religion and turn all duties of the Second Table into duties of the first discharging all their respects to men out of the love of God and fear of God and are led by conscience rather than Interest and begin and end with God in all they do and cast their whole lives into an holy and heavenly mould making straight steps to their feet and walk with a temper becoming Religion in all the inequality of conditions they pass through in the World looking for no great matters he●e but fetching their main supports and comforts from the World to come 1. Those that do so will in time overcome malice and prejudice and convince the world that God is in them of a truth and they a heavenly and holy people and have a spirit and a presence that others have not Prov. 12.26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour 2. They will reprove the World Heb. 11.7 Noah condemned the world by his ready obedience to Gods warning 3. They will make the world wonder 1 Pet. 4.4 They think it strange you run not into the same excess of riot with them 'T is no wonder to see men proud covetous revengeful carnal self-seeking corrupt Nature will sufficiently prove this As 't is no wonder to see the Sun move tho 't was a wonder in I●shuah's time when the Sun stood still so 't is no wonder to see men loose and wicked but 't is a wonder to see men holy heavenly mortified self-denying 4. You will justifie the ways of God against the cavils of Atheists and prophane carnal men Matt. 11.19 Wisdom is justified of her children and Israel justified Sodom Ezek. 16. 2. Vse is to exhort us to get this holy Spirit to dwell in our hearts that he may work in us a Divine Nature or that spiritual and Divine Temper which will teach us to live above and against the inclinations of the flesh 1. The means of infusing the Divine Nature into us is the Doctrine and example of Christ First his Doctrine which discovereth higher things than the flesh inclineth us unto and is the only cure of the carnal spirit This word was indited by the holy spirit For holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy-Ghost 2 Pet. 2.21 He inspired the Holy Apostles first to speak and then to write the Doctrine of Christ he led them into all truth John 6.13 The same Spirit attested this Doctrine by miraculous gifts Heb. 2.4 is conveyed by it Gal. 3 2. Received ye the spirit by the works of the law or the hearing of faith He prepareth and assisteth the ordinary Ministry that they may be fitted to convey this great gift Acts 20.28 Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over which the Holy-Ghost hath made you overseers and 2 Cor. 3.6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the spirit He writeth this Doctrine upon the heart Heb. 10.8 and 2 Cor. 3 3. Doth so renew and sanctifie our souls that we may live unto God Secondly The example of Christ for he had the days of his flesh John 1.14 and Heb. 5.7 lived in the world as men do but not after the flesh and God in our nature is the fit pattern for us to imitate that we may be in the world as he was in the world and not please the flesh as he pleased not himself To this example we are to be conformed but

those that stand upon the Shore to say to those that are tossed upon the Waves Sail thus They are tugging for Life the Cause is beyond our Direction and their Choice But these Persons are to be pitied yet counselled Besides God's Power we mingle much of our own Obstinacy and Peevishness as Rachel would not be comforted Jer. 31.15 We are to invite them to Christ and they are bound to hearken Their present Duty is to come for Ease Mat. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and ye shall find Rest for your Souls That is the only gracious Issue of Soul-Troubles as Christ cried My God on the Cross they are not exempted from believing But others are to be chidden It is a sad thing that Christians should not have the Wisdom to make use of their own Felicity We often hug a Distemper instead of a Duty as if God were better pleased with dolorous Impressions Lam. 3.33 He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men Not with his Heart so it is in the Hebrew It argueth ill thoughts of God Baal's Priests gashed themselves to please their Idols but God delighteth in the Prosperity of his Saints Men think there is more of Merit and Satisfaction in what afflictive it is a kind of Revenge they take upon themselves God hath required Sorrow to mortify Sin but not to satisfy Justice he would have us triumph in Christ whilst we groan under the Body of Death O consider Sowrness is a Dishonour to God a Discredit to your Profession a Disadvantage to your selves a Grief to the Spirit because you resist his Work as a Comforter Besides there is much of Ingratitude in it Complaints and Murmurings deface the Beauty of his Mercies As a Snail leaveth a frothy Slaver upon the fairest Flowers so do unthankful Christians leave their own Slaver upon the rich Mercies of God vouchsafed to them in Christ when they are always complaining and never rejoycing in God they leave the Slaver of their Murmurings upon them as if all were nothing If a King advance a Man and he always is sad before him he is angry Nehem. 2.2 Why is thy Countenance sad seeing thou art not sick This is nothing else but Sorrow of Heart Then I was ●ore afraid Because Men are prejudiced against Godly Joy let me tell you it is a Fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 The Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy c. In the Garden of Christ there groweth other Fruit besides Crabs It is a great Privilege of Christ's spiritual Kingdom Rom. 14.17 The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy-Ghost It is an Help in the spiritual Life Nehem. 8.10 The Joy of the Lord is your Strength It is as Wings to the Bird that makes you flie higher a sad Christian hath lost his Wings Well then consider these things Besides your unfitness hereby for your Duty the Unchearfulness of Professors darkneth the Ways of God and brings a Scandal upon Christ's spiritual Kingdom What cause have you to be always sad It must be either your Afflictions or your Sins For Afflictions if your Eyes were opened and earthly Affections mortified you would see no cause of Grief It can never be so ill with a Christian but he hath matter of rejoycing Nothing can deprive you of God of your Interest in Christ. Job 15.11 Are the Consolations of God small that they cannot counterballance worldly Afflictions Your Discontent cannot be greater than your grounds of Comfort It is true Nature will work Afflictions are bitter in the Root but the Fruit is sweet to a spiritual Palate Heb. 12.11 No Chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous it doth but seem bitter carnal Sense is not a fit Judg. But then for your Sins I confess Joy is proper to God's Children behaving themselves as Children but what shall we do when we have sinned I answer There is a Time to mourn and this is the Season of it If her Father had spit in her Face should she not be ashamed seven days Numb 12.14 It is good to be sensible of the displeasure of a Father Ay but in this Heaviness there should be a mixture of Joy Tho there be a Time to mourn yet Rejoyce evermore Great Heaviness without a mixture of Joy is sinful In this sence we should not mourn without hope We have to do with a God that is not implacable he mixeth Love with his Frowns In the midst of Judgment he remembreth Mercy and therefore we should mix Joy with our Sorrows Jer. 3.14 Turn O back-sliding Israel for I am married to you God doth not forget his Relation to us and so should not we Come again and I will make up all Breaches between you and me A Believer may fall grievously but not finally He doth not fall so but that God takes hold of him and we should learn to take hold of God Labour to recover your former Condition that you may freely rejoyce again by this means Love is renewed and strengthned 2. The other Sort are those that would rejoyce but do not provide matter of Joy Christ saith That my Joy may be fulfilled in themselves But in whom He had pleaded their Interest They are thine he had spoken well of them to the Father I am glorified in them Alas the Joys of others are but stollen Waters and Bread eaten in secret Frisks of Mirth when Conscience is asleep A Man cannot rejoyce in God till he hath some Interest in him 1 Sam. 30.6 David encouraged himself in the Lord his God when all was lost at Ziklag pray mark his God Tolle meum tolle Deum Take away mine and take away God God is better known in praedicamento Relationis quàm in praedicamento Substantia God in his Nature is terrible God in Covenant is sweet Habbak 3.18 Yet will I rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my Salvation When all things fail a Child of God runneth to his Interest The Object of Joy is Good but not Good in common but my Good Excellency and Propriety are the two Conditions of the Object of Joy Therefore holy Joy is not every one's Duty but theirs that have an Interest in God There are some Duties proper to the Saints that suppose such a State and Interest Prayer and Hearing are common Duties the Obligation lieth on all the Creatures it is the Homage they owe to God but now they are not immediatly bidden to rejoyce All are bound to provide matter for Joy but not all to rejoyce Carnal Men are for the present under Wrath liable to Hell Bondage is their Portion therefore clear up your Interest if you would rejoyce in God Men delight in their Children because they are their own Vse 5. To raise your Minds to the exercise of this Joy We should be more careful than we are to maintain our Peace and Joy To help you I shall shew First What Reason

avoid everlasting misery 'T is no 〈◊〉 what we suffer in time and endure in time USE 3. Improve it first to seek a reconciliation with God in the way of Faith and Repentance A man that is under the sentence of death and in danger to be executed every moment would not be quiet till he get a pardon All men by nature are Children of wrath as a Son of death as one condemned to die so 't is an Hebraism Now run for refuge to take hold of the hope that is set before you Heb. 6.18 make peace upon earth Luke 2.14 Agree with thine Adversary quickly while he is in the way Luke 12.58 59. Now God calleth to repentance Act. 17.30 31. Oh Labour to be found of him in peace 2 Pet. 3.14 How can a man be at rest till his great work be over 2. Improve it to holiness and watchfulness and to bridle licentiousness and boldness in sinning Eccl. 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou for all these things God will bring thee to judgment As cold Water cast into a boiling pot stops its fury 1 Pet. 1.17 And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons Judgeth every man according to every mans work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear Say as the Town Clark of Ephesus Acts 9.40 We are in danger to be called in Question for this days uproar I must give an account for idle words careless praying and unprofitable mispending of time 3. Improve it to patience under ignominy and reproaches Thy innocency will appear on thy tryal if in an abject Condition the upright shall have dominion in the morning afflictions and persecutions will then end and thou shalt have thy reward 1 Thes. 1.6 7. And ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affliction with joy in the Holy Ghost so that ye were ensamples of all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia And 1 Cor. 15.58 Wherefore my beloved be stedfast and unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as ye know your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. SERMON XVIII 2 Cor. 5.11 Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men but we are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your Consciences THe Apostle is giving an account of his sincerity zeal and faithfulness in his Ministry Three things moved him to it hope fear and love Here he asserteth the influence of the second principle In the words take notice of two things 1. The motive and reason of his fidelity in his Ministry knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 2. The witnesses to whom he appealeth For the proof of his fidelity and diligence 1. God the searcher of hearts 2. the consciences of his Auditours who had felt the benefit and force of the Word 1. To God as the supream Witness Approver and Judge but we are made manifest unto God he seeth our principles and aims and with what hearts we go about our work 2. To the Corinthians as secondary witnesses and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences He was confident that he had a witness of his sincerity and uprightness in their consciences The greatest approbation that we can have from men is to have an approbation in their consciences Mark the order our first desire should be to approve our selves to God who is our Judge and then to men And in doing that to approve our selves to their consciences which is the faculty which is most apt to take Gods part rather than to their humours that we may gain their respect and applause next to God the testimony of conscience next to our own conscience the consciences of others 1. I begin with the motive and reason of his fidelity knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vulgar Timorem Domini knowing the fear of the Lord. Erasmus Beza and our translation terrorem domini Grotius according to the former reading knowing the fear of the Lord i. e. The true way of religion we perswade men to Imbrace it Rather the Apostle understandeth the terrour of this Judgment being certain that these things are so and that such a terrible Judgment of Christ will come we perswade men to become Christians or to live as such as shall speed well then when others shall be destroyed he saith plurally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we perswade as comprizing his Colleagues suppose Timotheus and Sylvanus he and they perswaded men to Imbrace the Faith and to live as those who are to be judged For 't is to be looked upon 1. As an Argument and Motive to perswade himself and his Colleagues to sincerity in their Ministry who were to give an account of their dispensation 2. As an Argument and Motive to the People for their obedience to the Faith Doct. That the certain knowledge of the terrible Iudgment of God should move us to perswade and you that hear to be perswaded to a careful and serious preparation for it In managing which Point 1. I shall consider the object Here is terrour or matter of fear offered in the Judgment mentioned 2. The subject or persons fearing Paul and his Colleagues together with all the parties who are to be judged 3. The means How this fear cometh to be raised in us or to work on us Knowing 4. The effect here is perswasion grounded thereon knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 1. That there is terrour and matter of fear offered in the day of judgment upon several accounts 1. As it is an Impartial Judgment that shall pass upon all heathens Christians Apostles Ministers private Persons This ground is urged 1 Pet. 1.17 If ye call on the Father who without respect of Persons judgeth according to every mans work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear Those who take the Lord to be their Father and themselves for his Children must consider him also as an Exact and an Impartial Judge of all their actions And therefore with the more care and sollicitude carry on the work of holiness What is respecting or accepting persons in the Judgment 'T is to esteem one person rather than another for outward advantages not regarding the merits of the cause which cometh to discussion and tryal As in mans courts when men are spared for their greatness dignity or worldly preheminence But what person may God be supposed to respect or accept in Judgment Surely none can be so irrational as to think the great or rich can have any pretention to his favour or merciful dealing rather then others no Noble or Ignoble Poor or Rich Prince or begger they all stand upon the same level before God Well then the persons who may be supposed