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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.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the World. In the way of internal Government, the lesser penal withdrawings of the Spirit, which Gods people find themselves after some sins and neglects of grace, are grievous: But the Judgments upon the Souls of the ungodly, are most dreadful, when the sinner is either terrified or stupefied: terrified by horrors of Conscience, 1 Cor. 15.56. The sting of ⟨p. 205⟩death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law; or stupefied by being given up to their own hearts Counsels, Psal. 81.12. So I gave them up unto their own hearts lusts: and they walked in their own Counsels. So that the Sinner is left dull, and senseless, and past feeling. Eph. 4.18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: by the first, by horrors of Conscience, they are made to feel Gods displeasure at the courses they walk in; but when that is long despised and men sin on still, then the other and more terrible Judgment cometh. For the giving up a Sinner to his own lusts, and his losing all remorse, is the last and sorest Judgment on this side Hell.
But when we are judged, we are chastned of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the World. In the way of internal Government, the lesser penal withdrawings of the Spirit, which Gods people find themselves after some sins and neglects of grace, are grievous: But the Judgments upon the Souls of the ungodly, are most dreadful, when the sinner is either terrified or stupi•ied: terrified by horrors of Conscience, 1 Cor. 15.56. The sting of ⟨p. 205⟩death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law; or stupified by being given up to their own hearts Counsels,