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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.
The duties of it, are like the Pharisees fasting, which our Lord compareth to old Wine, Matth, 9.17. Fit for old dried skin Bottles. Well, take heed, of falling away from a lively Godliness: no man entereth seriously upon Religion, but with some tasting or rejoicing, Heb. 6. now as this ⟨p. 75⟩decayeth we fall off. The Heavenly life is obstructed, if not choked and quite lost. Now to prevent this observe two things. 1. Your coldness in duties. 2. Your boldness in sinning.
The duties of it, are like the Pharisees fasting, which our Lord compareth to old Wine, Matth, 9.17. Fit for old dried skin Bottles. Well, take heed, of falling away from a lively Godliness: no man entreth seriously upon Religion, but with some tasting or rejoicing, Heb. 6. now as this ⟨p. 75⟩decayeth we fall off. The Heavenly life is obstructed, if not choaked and quite lost. Now to prevent this observe two things. 1. Your coldness in duties. 2. Your boldness in sinning.
1. Coldness in duties, when the will and affections grow more remiss, and the worship of God which keepeth up the remembrance of him, is either omitted, or performed perfunctorily, and in a careless and stupid manner, Jer. 2.32. My people have forgotten me days without number. Job 27.10. Will he always call upon God, will he delight himself in the Almighty? God chargeth Israel with growing weary of him, and it began in not calling upon him,