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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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5. Besides, the Illumination of the Holy Spirit doth accompany this word, and make it effectual to us, to show us God as revealed in Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath s•ined into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ: and for Heaven, Eph. 1.17, 18. Praying, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his Inheritance in the Saints. He sanctifieth and healeth our ⟨p. 49⟩Souls, and prepareth us for the entertainment of the Truth, that as natural things are naturally discerned, so spiritual things are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2.14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
5. Besides, the Illumination of the Holy Spirit doth accompany this word, and make it effectual to us, to shew us God as revealed in Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath s•ined into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ: and for Heaven, Eph. 1.17, 18. Praying, that the God of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being inlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his Inheritance in the Saints. He sanctifieth and healeth our ⟨p. 49⟩