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XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing…
XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostasy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostacy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J.D. for J. Robinson, 1679
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3. The opposite to this is Levity and inconstancy of mind, that soon quitteth truth without difficulty, or without much hesitancy and resistance, yields to the temptation. The Scripture often taketh notice of this sudden embracing of Error, Gal. 1.6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel; and in the Text, soon shaken in mind; credulity is a lightness in believing, when we are like Reeds shaken with every wind, Mat. 11.7. and have a faulty easiness ready to be carried away with every Doctrine, which pretendeth to Truth; The simple believeth every word, Prov. 14.15. There is a readiness of mind, which is good, but it goeth on sufficient evidence; so the wisdom that is from above is gentle, and easy to be entreated, James 3.17 and the Bereans were [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 17.11. They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures whether these things were so or no: but a readiness of mind differs from a weakness of mind, or a lightness in believing upon slender ⟨p. 41⟩and insufficient grounds, they never received the truth with thorough Efficacy, and are prone to Error.
3. The opposite to this is Levity and inconstancy of mind, that soon quitteth truth without difficulty, or without much hesitancy and resistance, yields to the temptation. The Scripture often taketh notice of this sudden imbracing of Error, Gal. 1.6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel; and in the Text, soon shaken in mind; credulity is a lightness in believing, when we are like Reeds shaken with every wind, Mat. 11.7. and have a faulty easiness ready to be carried away with every Doctrine, which pretendeth to Truth; The simple believeth every word,