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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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3. As to Gods internal Judgments, the Scripture chiefly insists upon two parts of this internal dispensation, blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, they usually go together. Blindness of mind is spoken of, John 12.39, 40. Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again, he hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. All passages are obstructed, whereby the word might enter and work Conversion unto God. It was God laid this punishment of blindness upon them. Hardness of heart, in that famous ⟨p. 206⟩instance, Exod. 4.21. I will harden Pharaohs heart. God doth not make them that see, blind; nor them that are soft, hard; but leaveth them to their own prejudice, obstinacy, and unpersuadableness, and that when highly provoked. The former is under our consideration.
3. As to Gods internal Judgments, the Scripture chiefly insists upon two parts of this internal dispensation, blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, they usually go together. Blindness of mind is spoken of, Iohn 12.39, 40. Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, he hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. All passages are obstructed, whereby the word might enter and work Conversion unto God. It was God laid this punishment of blindness upon them. Hardness of heart, in that famous ⟨p. 206⟩instance, Exod. 4.21. I will harden Pharaohs heart. God doth not make them that see, blind; nor them that are soft, hard; but leaveth them to their own prejudice, obstinacy, and unperswadeableness, and that when highly provoked. The former is under our consideration.