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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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4. To confirm us in the truth of the Christian Faith, when we see the Prophecies of it expressly fulfilled; for that is the Lords direction to know a true Prophet; Deut 18.22. If the thing come to pass, and the event doth punctually answer the Prediction; but when Prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, ⟨p. 109⟩and the thing follow not, nor come to pass. that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken. Now the Apostles did not only teach the Church the Doctrine of Christianity, but by a Prophetic Spirit, and Divine Revelation, foretold things to come, and among these the great thing which is to happen, and come to pass before Christs second coming, is Antichrist, or the appearing of the man of sin. Therefore that we may not doubt of what is past, nor suspect what is further to come, it is good to study these Prophecies, and know, they are to be fulfilled in their time, that we may say, that God hath kept touch with the World hitherto in all the Predictions of the word, will not fail at last.
4. To confirm us in the truth of the Christian Faith, when we see the Prophecies of it expresly fulfilled; for that is the Lords direction to know a true Prophet; Deut 18.22. If the thing come to pass, and the event doth punctually answer the Prediction; but when Prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, ⟨p. 109⟩and the thing follow not, nor come to pass. that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken. Now the Apostles did not only teach the Church the Doctrine of Christianity, but by a Prophetick Spirit, and Divine Revelation, foretold things to come, and among these the great thing which is to happen, and come to pass before Christs second coming, is Antichrist, or the appearing of the man of sin. Therefore that we may not doubt of what is past, nor suspect what is further to come, it is good to study these Prophecies, and know, they are to be fulfilled in their time, that we may say, that God hath kept touch with the World hitherto in all the Predictions of the word, will not fail at last.