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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. The sufficiency of it; the Miracles then wrought were numerous, evident, and undeniable, being done publicly in the sight of all, and therefore the clearest attestation to his Doctrine, that flesh and blood could expect; such a stream of holy, necessary Miracles, that were for the most part not acts of pomp, but of succour and relief, and such as could be done by no power less than divine; not like those ludicrous Miracles they talk of in Popery which look like a cheat rather than a sign from Heaven; These Miracles of Christ could no way be impeached. For either it must be by some truth of God, which the new Revelation did contradict, and delivered by more certain means than those Miracles were; ⟨p. 171⟩but no such Revelation was there, all fairly accorded with those former Revelations of his mind given to the ancient Church: and Christ and his Apostles preached no other things, than what suited with Moses and the Prophets, Acts 26.22. Or else by some greater works, which should contradict the Testimony of these Wonders; as Moses did the Magicians of Egypt, Exod. 7.18. but no such thing could be alleged, or was pretended, therefore these were sufficient.
2. The sufficiency of it; the Mir•cles then wrought were numerous, evident, and undeniable, being done publickly in the sight of all, and therefore the clearest attestation to his Doctrine, that flesh and blood could expect; such a stream of holy, necessary Miracles, that were for the most part not acts of pomp, but of succour and relief, and such as could be done by no power less than divine; not like those ludicrous Miracles they talk of in Popery which look like a cheat rather than a sign from Heaven; These Miracles of Christ could no way be impeached. For either it must be by some truth of God, which the new Revelation did contradict, and delivered by more certain means than those Miracles were; ⟨p. 171⟩but no such Revelation was there, all fairly accorded with those former Revelations of his mind given to the ancient Church: and Christ and his Apostles preached no other things, than what suited with Moses and the Prophets,