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Thomas Manton Quotes
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“He that delays his conversion doth, as it were, pawn his soul into the devil's hands, and saith, If he do not fetch it again at such a day, it is his for ever.”
“If they may have the world, and live in honour and pleasure here, they give God an acquittance for anything else.”
“Some men are strong to drink wine; they are tubs and hogsheads, as Ambrose calls them, rather than men.”
“It is a delight and rejoicing to God to see his children just and righteous in all their dealings.”
“The field of the sluggard is overgrown with thistles. you grow barren, raw, sapless, and lose the choiceness of your spirits, and the savouriness of your thoughts, when you are seldom with God.”
“In paradise there was a tempter, but none in heaven; Satan was long since cast out thence, and the saints fill up the vacant rooms of the apostate angels.”
“Now God and the law are to be considered in a distinct rank from sin and death, from Satan and the world.”
“It is the Spirit of God dwelling in us that wrought us and fits us for this great and blessed hope; therefore whenever you think of it, your hearts should be raised in thanksgiving.”
“Christ first comes in the heart by grace, and then the soul, having tasted the sweetness of it, longs for another coming.”
“Ignorance is a branch of ungodliness; and I name it in the first place because it is the cause of all our disorder in worship and conversation.”
“GRACE, that teacheth us to deny ungodliness, doth also teach us to deny worldly lusts.”
“Remember, power is only given us to do good with it; and to do good is some resemblance of Christ.”
“We easily contract contagion and taint one from another, and learn to be carnal and worldly.”
“Sometimes it is said that Christ gave himself, and sometimes it is said that God the Father gave Christ.”
“Lusts grow licentious and unruly; and because they usurp God's place in the heart, therefore God suffers it; always it ends ill, in shame and judgment.”
“To boast of what we have not is folly; to boast of what we have is sacrilege, and we rob God; this is like a man deeply in debt, who boasts of an estate he has borrowed.”