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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

Heavens 1. The general truth henceforth know we no man after the flesh This knowledge is a knowledge of approbation to know is to admire and esteem as we our selves should not seek our own esteem thereby so not esteem others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for some external thing which seemeth glorious in the Judgment of the flesh 1. Doct. A Christian should not religiously value others for external and carnal things Let us state it a little how far we are to know no man after the flesh 1. Negatively and there 1. 'T is not to deny civil respect and honour to the wicked and carnal For that would destroy all government and order in the World Rom. 13.7 Render therefore to all their duties Tribute to whom Tribute is due And Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear And Honour to whom Honour We are to own Parents Magistrates Persons of Rank and Eminency with that respect which is due to their Rank and Quality though they should be carnal For the wickedness of the person doth not discharge us of our duty or make void civil or natural differences and respects due to them 2. Not to deny the gifts bestowed upon them though Common gifts for your eye should not be evil because Gods is good Matth. 20. 3. You may love them the better when religion is accompanyed with these external advantages Eccl. 7.11 Wisdom with an inheritance is good Religious and noble Religous and beautiful Religious and learned Religious and Rich. When grace and outward excellency meet it maketh the person more lovely and amiable 2. Positively 1. We must not guild a potsheard or esteem them to be the Servants of Christ because of their carnal excellencies and value them religiously and prefer them before others who are more useful and who have the Image of God impressed upon them This is to know men after the flesh and to value men upon carnal respects We do not Judge of an Horse by the saddle and trappings but by his strength and swiftness Solomon telleth us Pro. 12.26 That the Righteous is more excellent than his neighbour and explaineth himself Pro. 19.1 Better is the poor that walketh in his Integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool Grace should make persons more lovely in our eyes than carnal honour and glory 2. The cause of God must not be burdened or abandoned because those of the other side have more outward advantages This was the case between the Apostle and the Desp. And this is clearly to know men after the flesh and such a course will justify the Pharisees plea John 7.47 48. Have any of the Rulers and Pharisees believed in him but this people which knoweth not the Law are cursed The truth is not to be forsaken because there is eminency pomp worldly countenance repute for learning on the other side To this head may be referred the plea between the Protestants and the Papists about Succession suppose it true that there were no gaps in their succession that ours as to a series of persons cannot be justifyed yet the plea is naught for this is to know men after the flesh and to determine of truth by external advantages So if we should contemn the truths of God because of the persons that bring them to us as usually we regard the man more than the matter and not the golden treasure so much as the earthen vessel 't was the prejudice cast upon Christ Was not this the Carpenters Son Matheo Langi Arch-Bishop of Saltsburg told every one that the Reformation of the Mass was needful the liberty of meats convenient to be disburdened of so many commands of man concerning days just but that a poor Monk should reform all was not to be endured meaning Luther 3. We should not prefer these to the despising and wrong of others 1 Cor. 11.22 Every one took his own supper but despised the Church of God That is excluded the poor who were of the Church as well as they 4. To value others for carnal advantages so as it should be a snare or matter of envy to us Prov. 3.31 32. Envy not the oppressor and chuse none of his ways for the froward is an abomination to the Lord but his secret's with the righteous 5. Know no man after the flesh so as to forbear Christian duties to them of admonition or reproof or to accommodate Gods truths to their liking Mark 12.14 Master we know that thou art true and carest for no man for thou regardest not the person of men but teachest the way of God in truth 6. Not to comply with carnal men for our own gain and advantage Judges 16. Having mens persons in admiration because of advantage To sooth people in their errours or sins 2. The Reason is taken from the posture of the words in the context this disposition whatever it be is an effect of the new nature of the love of Christ and a branch of not living to our selves 1. The new nature verse 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature A new creature hath a new Judgment of things when a man is changed his Judgment of things is altered 2. Of the Love of Christ Verse 14. He that loveth Christ as Christ will love Christ in any dress of Doctrine plain and comely or learned or eloquent in any Condition of life in the World high or low is not swayed by external advantages 3. A branch of the Spiritual life ver 15. The faithful being born again of the Spirit do live a new and spiritual life Now this is one part of this life not to know any man after the flesh To be dead to things of a carnal interest not moved with what is external and pleasing to the flesh Let the carnal part of the World please themselves with these vain things Pomp of living external rank possession of the power of the Church c. USE is that of the Apostle James 4.1 My Brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory with respect of persons That is do not esteem things that are religious for those things which have no affinity with or pertinency to religion His reason is couched in the exhortation Christ is the Lord of glory and puts an honour upon all things which do belong to him how despicable soever otherwise in the Worlds eye not external things but religion should be the reason and ground of our affection 2. We come to the conclusion restrained to the instance of Christ Yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more 2. Doct. A meer knowing of Christ after the flesh ought to cease among Christians that have given up themselves to live to him as dying and rising again for their sakes I shall prove to you that knowing Christ after the flesh was not that respect that he looked for when he was most capable of receiving love in this kind namely

Never were there such a zealous parcel of Men as in the first days of the Gospel they seemed to some as if they were even mad for Christ 2 Cor. 5.13 For whether we be besides our selves it is to God much in Spirit much in Labours much in Afflictions Primitive Zeal is much decayed many are like the Carbuncle if you look upon it afar off you would think it all on Fire but touch it and it is Key-cold Religion is turned into a meer prat●le and talk few mind the Interest of Christ. A Christian should be always devising how he may lay forth himself for Christ for the advancement of his Ordinances inlargement of his Kingdom and to this end we should neither spare Body nor Estate nor Life it self You should honour him with your Substance Prov. 3.9 Honour the Lord with thy Substance and with the first Fruits of all thy Increase it is but a Tribute to the King of the Church Now Miracles are ceased God will propagate the Gospel by the bounty of those that have tasted the sweetness of it if the Lord hath need of it why should we stick at any thing Honour him with your Relation as a Magistrate Magistrates must improve the Interest of Christ by discountenancing Error they who reign by Christ must reign for him see if God doth not reckon with Gallio's As a Merchant honour him with thy Traffick to promote Religion by Trade Deut. 33.18 19. And of Zebulun he said Rejoice Zebulun in thy going out and Issachar in thy Tents They shall call the People unto the Mountain there shall they offer Sacrifices of Righteousness for they shall suck of the Abundance of the Seas and of Treasure hid in the Land Every Affair should be cast into the Mould of Religion or we do not act as Christians Jesuits and Papists will rise up in judgment against us So in your private Sphere do something for Jesus Christ in your Families A Christian should not have any Relation but he should make some advantage of it for the Honour of Christ. So for Suffering Christ is glorified in the courage of those that bear forth his Name of the World Let it not be grievous to us it is much to be Active for God but it is more to be Passive Let Glory to Christ be written though it be with our Blood only with these Cautions 1. We must think our selves to be honoured by this Service how grievous disgraceful and troublesome soever it be 2 Cor. 5.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him We labour that is we strive after this Honour to labour with Ambition The meanest Service about Princes is honourable if it be a Groom or any other inferior Imploiment A Servant of the Lord is an higher Honour than the Prince of the Power of the Air Satan's Title is windy and lofty To do for Christ saith Ignatius is a greater Honour than to be a Monarch of all the World Christ is such an Excellent Person that any thing that is done in and about him reflecteth an Honour upon the Person that doth it The Second Temple exceeded Solomon's because of Christ's Presence Hagga 2.9 The Glory of the latter House shall be greater than of the former saith the Lord of Hosts and in this place will I give Peace saith the Lord of Hosts Bethlehem was little among the thousands of Judah Micah 8.2 yet there Christ was born So hardship with Christ brown Bread with Christ shame and disgrace with Christ is honourable Acts 5.41 They went away from the presence of the Councel rejoicing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the sake of Jesus Christ it is that they were honoured to suffer dishonour for Christ. Service is an Honour Suffering a Priviledg Phil. 1.29 To you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake Unless you have this Mind it is but a factious obstinacy not a religious suffering and doing for Christ. 2. There must be a sense of your Unworthiness Luke 17.10 When you have done all say We are unprofitable Servants we have done that which was our duty to do A poor unworthy Creature Alas what have we done Christ is doubly honoured by a direct aim and tendency of the Endeavour and by your humble Profession David prepared for the Temple with all his might 1 Chron. 22.14 Now behold in my trouble I have prepared for the House of the Lord an hundred thousand Talents of Gold and an hundred thousand Talents of Silver c. a poor Gift for the great God! We are apt to overvalue our Services and Endeavours therefore it is very good to retain an humble modest sense of them Poor Creatures what do we do that have received not only Life and Breath but Grace and Glory and all things from Christ It is good to be humble for what we do and to acknowledg it to be a thing wholly unworthy of God 3. You must ascribe all to Christ's Glory As Joab when he had conquered Rabbah sent for David to take the Honour so must we do for Christ. This is still doubling of Honour and Glory 1 Cor. 15.10 By the Grace of God I am what I am and his Grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain for I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the Grace of God which was with me The Pen doth not deserve praise if the Writer draweth a fair Letter Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the Life which I live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God The Stars disappear when the Sun shineth in its strength The Work is enough let God take the Honour 1 Chron. 29.14 But who am I and what is my People that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee David never speaketh in that strain but on the occasion of a singular Mercy David ascribeth all to God the Ability the Will the Goods the Mind So in all our Engagements for Christ he must have the praise as one Man in a press or crowd lifteth up another and he only is seen when the other is lost in the Throng 5. By being zealous for his Institutions then you honour Christ by giving the Wisdom and Power of a Law-giver to him The highest Power of a Prince is Legislative When you keep to Christ's Laws you count him faithful in his House and acknowledg him King in his Church But now when we set up our Threshold by God's Threshold Christ is dishonoured as if he were not faithful in his House Mat. 15.6 Thus have ye made the Commandments of God of none effect by your Traditions By the Traditions of Men ye make void the Law of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

175 5 5 239   8 343   13 50   13 15   19 20 127   24 129 132 137 Ephesians 1 3 89 4 5 150   11 306   13 14 83 99   22 23 17 2 2 3 113   4 5 330 3 17 18 19 4 24 25 16   27 98   30 150 5 9 16 6 15 134 Philip. 1 19 17   23 74 2 6 324 3 19 107 112   20 108   21 90 Colossians 3 3 189   5 127 132 1 Thes. 2 12 292 2 Tim. 1 7 15   7 8 159   10 143 363 2 5 175 319   19 301 Titus 2 11 125 3 3 20   11 50 Hebrews 2 5 202   14 97   18 356 3 6 14 230 ERRATA PAge 5. line 7. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 12. l 16. for liberum read liberam p. 12. I. 18. for seritatis read servitutis p. 16. l. last for Honour read tribute to p. 21. l. 14. for vendati r. venditi p. 26. l. 16. for sinint he read sin in the. p. 27. l. 25. f. 10. r. 13. p. 27. add from all things from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses p. 30. l. penult for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 36. l. 53. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 51. l. 5. for dundum read dandum p. 52. l. 46. for addando read addendo p. 52. l. 47. for hauriebar read hauriebat p. 54. l. 25. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 56. l. 31. for valla read Valla p. 56. l. 31. for sentiaut read sentiunt p. 69. l. 26. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 90. l. 12. for assertoin read assertion p. 96. l. 31. for acquitted read acquired p. 102. l. 39. for justici read justitiae p. 133. l. 27. for spirie read spirit p. 134. l. 59. for satiat read sanat p. 142. l. 10. for for our read from p. 147. l. 47. for inabled read unable p. 155. l. 35. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 158. l. 3. for after read all and a. p. 164. l. 40. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 169. l. 18. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 200. l. 51. for casually read causally p. 258. l. 3. for two read no. p. 267. l. 23. for simel read simul p. 328. l. 53. for offerte read offert p. 368. l. 14. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 376. l. 1. for gratia read gratiae p. 376. l. 2. for positiva read positivae p. 378. l. 6. between need and fear add not SERMON I. The Second Epistle to the CORINTHIANS CHAPTER V. Verse 1. For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens HAving shewed you how much of the true Spirit of Christianity lyeth in looking to things unseen Because the Apostle goeth on with that Argument I shall pursue it in the following verses of this Chapter Paul here rendreth a reason why he could so over-look things seen whether Crosses or Comforts And so resolutely venture upon the hope of things unseen For we know c. In which words there is not only a reason rendred of his Courage and self denying pursuit of unseen glory But also an Anticipation or secret Prevention of an Objection Some might say to to him There may be a blessed State to come But dost thou certainly know that thou shalt be a partaker of that glory Yea saith he We know c. The words branch themselves into three parts 1. A supposal of the worst that could befal him in the world If our Earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved 2dly A proposal of a glorious estate to be enjoyed after death We have a building of God an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens 3dly An Assertion of his own right or the application to himself or an assured expectation of this Blessed and Glorious Estate We know that we have 'T is not a bare Conjecture but a certain knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We know And what is there known Not the general Truth only That there is a building of God an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens But that we have a particular confidence of our own Blessed Immortality The Point is This That the difficulties pressures and dangers of the present life even though they should end in death its self are a matter of no great Terrour to those who have a sure confidence of their own Blessed Immortality I shall explain this Point by these Considerations 1. That the present life is frail miserable and transitory and within a little while will surely come to an end 2dly That there is a much happier Condition than this world is capable of Even an abiding Estate of Blessedness which God hath provided for his people For the Apostle speaking of the present life he calleth it a Tent but the other is an House that 's an earthly House this Eternal in Heaven out of the reach of all sublunary dangers That 's an House in which man is Instrumental in raising it up or sometimes pulling it down This is builded without hands by God himself and continued to us for ever by his gracious Grant 3dly That a sure confidence of this Happy and Blessed Condition may be had For there is a sure right We have a certain confidence We know 'T is not we think we hope well But we know 'T is propounded as a Common priviledge you and I and all the suffering servants We know 4thly That this sure confidence of our own right in it and future possession of it doth support and fortifie the Soul against all the dangers and pressures of the present life yea against death it self I. That the bodily life is Frail and Transitory and within a little while will surely come to an end The Circumstances of the Text explained will represent it to you 1. The Body of man is called an House 1. For the beauty and comely proportion that is between the parts as set up by line or rule There is an admirable piece of Architecture in building and raising up the body of man Story after Story and Room after Room Contrivance after Contrivance so compact and set together that the most Curious piles in the world are but rude heaps Compared to it Psal. 130.15 16. I am fearfully and wonderfully made c. The serious contemplation of Gods Workmanship in our very Bodies will force us to acknowledge his unspeakable wisdom all things are so well disposed and ordered for profit and use The greatest miracles are to be seen in Gods Common works We wonder when we hear of any work exceeding the