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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. The Causes of this Levity and Inconstancy of mind are these.
1. Want of solid rooting in the Truth, they receive it hand over head, as the stony ground forthwith sprang up, Mat. 13.5. and 20. ver. Anon they receive it with joy; they do not so soon receive the word, but they as soon quit it.
2. Want of Mortification, 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forsaken us; having loved this present World: Lusts are uncertain, fear of men, favour of men, carnal hopes will easily prevail.