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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.
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 ⟨p. 139⟩prosperity, as ready to be cut down and withered. (2.) To prevent Apostasy, they choose the better part, that choose the Holiness and Patience of the Saints, 2 Cor. 4.18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal: but things present carry away our hearts, because we have so dim and doubtful a sight of things to come; whereas if we did look upon them as sure and near, they would fortify us against Temptations, Prov. 3.31, 32. Envy thou not the Oppressor, and choose none of his ways; For the froward is abomination to the Lord, but his secret is with the righteous.
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 setled 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 ⟨p. 139⟩