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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
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4. To keep up a remembrance of his mercies, Psal. 59.11. Slay them not, lest my people forget, scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. •od maketh us sensible of the care he hath over us, not by the utter destruction of the Enemies of his People, but by lingering Judgments on them, which affect us more than if they were cut off suddenly.
4. To keep up a remembrance of his mercies, Psal. 59.11. Slay them not, lest my people forget, scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. •od maketh us sensible of the care he hath over us, not by the utter destruction of the Enemies of his People, but by lingring Judgments on them, which affect us more than if they were cut off suddenly.
2. Many other reasons may be given, because it serveth the beauty and harmony of his Providence, to cut them off in their time, and by such means, as he hath appointed, and in such a way, as shall most conduce unto his Glory. But I pass them by; we must tarry his leisure, and not question his truth and care over us, and be content, that our Faith and Patience be exercised. If God should bring a sudden destruction upon a Power and Tyranny, so supported by the combined interests of ⟨p. 143⟩the World, we were not able to bear it. Thorns serve for a fence to a Garden of Roses; God would not destroy the Canaanites at once, lest the beasts of the field should increase upon them, Deut. 7.22. nor all abettors of Antichristianism, lest his people should lye open to such evils as they cannot bear.