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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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1. Use. We learn hence, not to be discouraged in our greatest extremities, when all temporal hopes seem to fail, and we have nothing left us, but the word of our Testimony: let us not distrust our spiritual weapons; for they are mighty through God to bring down all the strong holds of sin and Antichrist, 2 Cor. 10.4, 5. Oh encourage your selves in the Lord, you have the merit of his Humiliation, and ⟨p. 151⟩the power of his Exaltation: Merit, what cannot the blood of Christ do to fetch off men from their inveterate prejudices and superstitions? 1 Pet. 1.18. We are redeemed by the blood of Christ from our vain Conversations: so for the power of his Exaltation, there is his Spirit; the success of his Spirit on the pouring out of the first Sermon, Acts 2.41. fetched in 3000. Souls, that had embrued their hands in the blood of their Saviour, and were in no very devout posture at that time: his Word, that is, the Rod of his strength, Psal. 110.2. which hath a mighty power to convince, transform and convert Souls, Rom 1.16. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto Salvation. Then there is the power of Providence; all Judgment is put into Christs hands for the advancement of his own Kingdom, John 5.22. if all be in Christs hands, why should you distrust your cause, or the success of it?
1. Vse. We learn hence, not to be discouraged in our greatest extremities, when all temporal hopes seem to fail, and we have nothing left us, but the word of our Testimony: let us not distrust our spiritual weapons; for they are mighty through God to bring down all the strongs holds of sin and Antichrist, 2 Cor. 10.4, 5. Oh incourage your selves in the Lord, you have the merit of his Humiliation, and ⟨p. 151⟩