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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. Their Faith occasion such a reflection, which is the evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11.1. they looked not at things, as at present they seem to short-sighted men, or as they relish to the flesh; but as they appear, and will be judged of at last, their ruin is as present before them, as their rise; present time is quickly past; but now without Faith this cannot be, 2 Pet. 1.9. He that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, [Greek or Hebrew], but are dazzled with present splendour, and so miscarry.
1. Their Faith occasion such a reflection, which is the evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11.1. they lookt not at things, as at present they seem to short-sighted men, or as they relish to the flesh; but as they appear, and will be judged of at last, their ruine is as present before them, as their rise; present time is quickly past; but now without Faith this cannot be, 2 Pet. 1.9. He that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but are dazled with present splendor, and so mis•arry.
2. This Faith is necessary. (1.) Partly to prevent scandal at the prosperity of an ungodly party, who obey not the Gospel, but corrupt and pervert it to their Worldly ends. D•vids steps were even gone, when he saw the prosperity of the wicked, till he went into the Sanctuary, and understood their end, Psal. 73.17. that settled his heart to consider, what end these men were appointed unto, how prosperous soever they seem to be for the present, yet the end must put the difference, there they see the wicked in the height of their