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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. That it is well known, the Apostle produceth the testimony of Enoch, Jude 14. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints; David often mentioneth it as a thing delighted in by Believers; therefore in a Poetical, or rather Prophetical strain, he calleth upon the Heavens, Earth, Sea, and Fields, to rejoice; before the Lord, for he cometh, for h• cometh to judge the Earth; he shall judge the World with Righteousness, and the people with his truth, Psal. 96.13. and again, Psal. 98.10. He calleth upon the Creatures to rejoice; before the Lord, for he cometh to judge the Earth; ⟨p. 4⟩with Righteousness shall he judge the World, and the people with Equity; passages whi•h relate, not only to the Kingdom of the Messiah, as it is exercised now in the World, but also to his final act of judging, till which time they are not fully verified: Solomon bindeth •he whole duty of man upon him by his consideration, Eccles. 12.13, 14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear God, and keep his Commandments, for this is the whole duty of man; for God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing; whether it be good, or whether it be evil: And the Apostles, when they went abroad to Proselyte the World, usually began with this point.
1. That it is well known, the Apostle produceth the testimony of Enoch, Jude 14. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints; David often mentioneth it as a thing delighted in by Believers; therefore in a Poetical, or rather Prophetical strain, he calleth upon the Heavens, Ear•h, Sea, and Fields, to rejoice; before the Lord, for he cometh, for h• cometh to judge the Earth; he shall judge the World with Righteousness, and the people with his truth,