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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. To try his people, for he expects a tried obedience, what Christianity we will accept ⟨p. 141⟩and choose, that calculated for this World, or that which is calculated for the next. Antichristianism in all the branches of it is a sort of Religion suited to Worldly interests, 1 John 4.5. They are of the World, therefore speak they of the World, and the World heareth them: but true Christianity for the Kingdom of Heaven, 1 Cor. 2.12. Now we have received, not the spirit of the World, but the spirit which is of God, therefore God will try who are the formal and pretended Christians, that serve their own bellies, and the sincere Christians who look to an unseen World, and are willing to hazard their own interests out of their fidelity to Christ; Therefore when the Saints under the Altar groaned, Rev. 6.10. How long Lord, holy and true, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth; the Answer given was, v. 11. That they should rest for a season until their fellow servants, and also their brethren, that should be killed, as they were, should be fulfilled: in every Age God will have his Witnesses, who by their Faith and Patience, and not loving their lives to the Death, should promote the Lambs Kingdom, before they receive their Crown; and therefore, though Antichrist be consumed more and more, yet he hath so many abettors of his Kingdom left as may try Faith and Patience of the Saints.
2. To try his people, for he expects a tryed obedience, what Christianity we will accept ⟨p. 141⟩and chuse, that calculated for this World, or that which is calculated for the next. Antichristianism in all the branches of it is a sort of Religion suited to Worldly interests, 1 John 4.5. They are of the World, therefore speak they of the World, and the World heareth them: but true Christianity for the Kingdom of Heaven,