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Words of peace or, Dr. Mantons last sayings many of them taken from him on his death-bed, or observed on other remarkable occasions; tending very much to the edification of Christians.
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Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.
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WORDS OF PEACE OR Dr. MANTONS LAST SAYINGS Many of them taken from him on his Death-Bed or observed on other Remarkable Occasions Tending very much to the Edification of Christians 1. IN his Sickness lying under great Pains he was heard to use this expression Lord keep me from Dishonouring Thy Name by impatiency Blessed be God there is nothing of Hell in all this 2. Restrain and Bridle your Passions in Religious matters and never contend about Punctilio's 3. The latter days will be hard times and yet happy times miserable in the beginning but glorious in the Issue for 't is the Course of Divine Dispersations after the greatest Distractions to bring forth the greatest harmony 4. He who Countenances a Fault is more Guilty than he that Commits it for there may be frailty in the one but you cannot excuse the other from Malice 5. Be ever more tender of your Conscience then of your Reputation 6. When the Flesh is too much made of the Soul loses it vigour and he that is addicted to delights rarely has a Noble Generous and true Christian mind 7. Bride is nothing but a Pompuous Excrescency of Folly 8. Provided that people agree in Religious principles let them never be like the Bulls of Bashan Goring and Wounding each other 9. When a people begin to Innovate 't is an hard matter to keep them within the bounds of any Moderation 10. Men of Lucians temper by jesting against received Rites insensibly lose all sense and awe of Religion and by Scoffing at False Gods come the less to Dread the True 11. They are Guilty of a strange Unfaithfulness in point of Stewardship towards God who do not imploy their Superfluities in the Relief of the Poor and Miserable 12. A good man may be Innocently reveng'd of his Enemies by persisting in well-doing and a bad man by reforming his life 13. Pride is a vice insupportable in the rich but absolutely abominable in the poor it renders one a Fool the other a Brute 14. Ill affections do as often divide us as ill Opinions and distempered Spirits occasion distracted times wars come from our Lusts Jam. 4. 1. 15. Too many men make Idols of their own conceptions and love an Opinion not because 't is true but because 't is theirs 16. A man should as carefully avoid an error in Judgement as a vice in Conversation for God hateth filthiness of the Spirit as well as filthiness of the Flesh 17. Easie credulity and stubborn prejudice are the two great fomenters of Religious differences 18. The Adversaries of Christianity have been always those that have least inquired into it's nature 19. Do not appropriate Christ to any one party of Professors The Apostle reproves those that said I am of Christ as well as those that said I am of Paul 1 Cor. 1. 13. Those that spake as if Christ were onely Theirs were accounted a Faction too 20. We prize a Jewel in a Toads head how much more should we love grace in brethren whose blemish is onely some petty dissent 21. 'T is fatal to Religion when once we cry up Names and those names beget Parties for then men look onely to accomodate their own faction though it be to the hazard of religion and publique peace 22. You make the best purchases when you relieve those that are in necessity and by the act gain more than those on whom your Bounties are bestow'd 23. Rebukes in private Dealings of Friendship should come from us as afflicting as if the fault were our own and wear rather Mourning than Scorn 24. He onely Reproves another with faithfulness that can suffer himself to be reproved with Thankfulness 25. Self-interest twines it self to far into all our actions that it infects our very Charity Men will be bountiful sometimes because they are ambitious and purchase the shaddow of one vertue with the real loss of another If at all we fling our bread upon the Waters we chuse not Currents that run all one way from us but tideing Waters we do good only to such as many return it 26. He must be a Fool who sells himself to buy a Garment how then dare you expose your soul to gratifie your body 27. Never divulge slaunders against any nor incourage them but entertain all lessoning disparagings of others with tingling Ears slow belief blushes for the defamer as well as the defamed a dejected countenance an excusing tongue or a distastful silence 28. To smite with the hand is beneath a man to smite with the Tongue beneath a Christian and yet how often are Christians guilty of both biting and devouring one another as the Apostle most aptly phrases Gal. 5. 15. 29. Patient sufferings carry more Majesty with them than carnal replies and defences 30. Of all men it worst becomes the Embassadors of the Prince of Peace to be men of Violence 31. Admonitions are not to be counted accusations 32. Some men love to live in the fire and be always handling the red hot questions of the Age with passion and Acrimony but alas this doth no good 33. 'T is very unwarrantable to gain Men to a party before they be gained to God 34. Arrows of bitter words are no Weapons of our spiritual warfare 35. The small Rain does most good on the tender Grass he that speaks to dissenters should do it with all meekness and kindness let your arguments be as strong as you can but be sure let your words be soft 36. There may be divers colours but there should be no Rent in the Churches Coat 37. 'T is good to preserve truth but small distempers need not violent cures he 's a mad man that fires his house to destroy the Mice in it 38. Paul is every where most zealous against erors yet none more earnest than he to bring Circumsion and Uncircumsion to a profession of Brotherhood 39. Strings that are in Tune must not be stirred others must be set up to them the disobedient must be brought up to the Wisdom of the Just not that down to them for where the Language is pure the Souldier is one Zep. 3. 9. 40. The great occasion of the decay of Piety amongst Professors is because they spend all the heat and first born of their strength and zeal in contentions about opinions without regard to practise 41. False Doctrines and bad lives like Ice and water do mutually beget each other 42. Those that kindle Coals and seek to increase the flames of discontent and Animosites amongst the people of God are Factors for the Devil who is pictured with a Cloven foot onely to signifie that his work is to cause and continue divisions in the world 43. God rules the world by the lusts of his enemies and the Prayers of his Saints disappointing one and stirring up and answering the other accomplishes the designs of providence 44. Corrupt company is more Infectiouâ—… than corrupt Air. 45. Conquer Will and you Conquer Hell The principal Point in difference between God and Sinners is whose Will shall stand his or theirs 46. There is nothing in the world moâ—… dangerous to the publique Welfare either oâ—… State or Churches than private self-seeking 47. The more low and useless we are our own Eyes the sitter we are to be imployed by God who poureth the Oyl of his Grace into broken Vessels 48. The Keys of Eternal life are self-denying Graces Faith and Repentance by the oâ—… we are taught to go out of our selves by thâ—… others to abhor our selves 49. Restitution as it is a most necessary it is one of the most hardest parts of self-dâ—…nyal when a covetous heart must be forcâ—… to vomit up all it 's sweet Morsels again Uâ—… just gain is like a barbed Arrow it kills if stay within the body and it tears and pulls tâ—… Flesh away with it if it be drawn out 50. I never much liked Projectors in any kind they usually delude others and undoe themselves but above all a Projector in Learning is one of the most unhappy and oâ—… all Learning none more dangerous than Projector in Theology the likeliest peice Timber out of which to shape first a â—…tick and after that an Heretick and at Athiest London Printed by A. P. and T. H. for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West-Smith field near the Hospital-Gate 1677. With Allowancâ—…