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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.
1. The mystery of Godliness is known, by the ends of God by the Gospel; and the way he took to promote those ends.
1. The end of the Gospel is to recover man out of a carnal ungodly state; into a state of holiness and reconciliation with a God; the Terminus à quo; men are carnal, ungodly. (1.) Carnal, when man fell from God, he fell to himself, self interposed as the next Heir, and that self was not the Soul, but the Flesh; many wrong their Souls, but no man ever yet hated his own Flesh, and therefore men would rule themselves, and please themselves according to their fleshly appetite and fancy, John 3.6. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and therefore love the Pleasures, Honours, and Profits of the World, as the necessary provision to satisfy the desires of the Flesh; And whosoever live thus, they live in a carnal state, as all do, till grace renew them, Rom. 8.5. but this carnal estate doth break forth, and bewray it self in various ways of sinning, Titus 3.3. For we our selves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. All are not Fornicators, Drunkards, Persecutors, nor live in the same way of sing, but all are ⟨p. 116⟩turned from God to the World, and have a carnal mind, which is emnity to God, Rom. 8. 7. (2.) The next word is ungodly, men thus constituted, live either in a denial of God, Psalm 14.1. The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; or a neglect of God, Ephes. 2.12