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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. When God hath laid in great store of comforts against sufferings, usually there is a time of expense to lay them out again. Christ warned his hearers to make use of the light, because of the darkness coming upon them, ⟨p. 145⟩John 12.35, 36. You never knew the Gospel powerfully preached, but Trials came; Heb. 10.32, 34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves, that you have in heaven a better, and an enduring substance. Castles are first victualled, then besieged; the ministry is consolatory mostly.
1. When God hath laid in great store of comforts against sufferings, usually there is a time of expence to lay them out again. Christ warned his hearers to make use of the light, because of the darkness coming upon them, ⟨p. 145⟩Iohn 12.35, 36. You never knew the Gospel powerfully preached, but Tryals came; Heb. 10.32, 34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves, that you have in heaven a better, and an enduring substance. Castles are first victualled, then besieged; the ministry is consolatory mostly.
2. When men can neither bear our vices, not their proper remedies; Ezek. 24.13. In thy filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee: