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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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2. There are Graces planted in us, Faith, Hope, and Love, to move us earnestly to desire his coming.
2. There are Graces planted in us, Faith, Hope, and Love, to move us earnest•y to desire his coming.
1. Faith believeth Christ will be as good as his word; I will come again, if it were not so, I would have told you, John 14.2. And if Christ ⟨p. 11⟩saith in a way of Promise, I come, the Church saith, Amen, in a way of Faith, even so, Com•. If Christ had gone away in discontent, and with a threat in his mouth, Ye shall never see my face more, we should altogether despair of seeing him again; but he parted in Love, and left a Promise with us, which upholdeth the Hearts of Believers during his absence. Would Christ deceive us, and flatter us into a Fools Paradise? What need that? He can strike us dead in an instant, if we do not please him, and we have hitherto found him true in all things, and will he fail us at last?
2. Hope, which is Faiths Handmaid, it looketh for that which we do believe, it is the immediate effect of the new Creature, 1 Pet. 1.3. Begotten to a lively hope; as soon as Grace is infused, it discovereth it self by its tendency to its end, and rest; it came from Heaven, and carrieth the Soul thither.