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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.
2. Not only by desertion, but by tradition, delivering them up to the power of Satan, 2 Cor 4.4. The God of this world hath blinded their eyes. Satan as the Executioner of Gods Curse, worketh upon the corrupt nature of man, and deceiveth them. It is said, 1 Chron. 21.1. Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. But it is said, 2 Sam. 24.1. And the Anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, to say, go, number Israel and Judah. How shall we reconcile these two places? God gave him over to be tempted by Satan. By God, as a Judge; by Satan, as an Executioner. Temptations to sin come immediately from the Devil, but they are governed by God, for holy and righteous ends. So again, 1 King 22.22. The evil Spirit had leave and Commission, to be a lying Spirit in Ahab's Prophets, Go forth and do so, and thou shalt prevail with him. There is a permissive intention, not an effective: when they grieve his Spirit, God withdraweth and leaveth them to the evil Spirit, who works by their fleshly and worldly lusts, and then they are easily seduced, who prefer Worldly things before Heavenly.
2. Not only by desertion, but by tradition, delivering them up to the power of Sathan, 2 Cor 4.4. The God of this world hath blinded their eyes. Sathan as the Executioner of Gods Curse, worketh upon the corrupt nature of man, and deceiveth them. It is said, 1 Chron. 21.1. Sathan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. But it is said, 2 Sam. 24.1. And the Anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, to say, go, number Israel and Iudah. How shall we reconcile these two places? God gave him over to be tempted by Sathan. By God, as a Judge; by Sathan, as an Executioner. Temptations to sin come immediately from the Devil, but they are governed by God, for holy and righteous ends. So again, 1 King 22.22. The evil Spirit had leave and Commission, to be a lying Spirit in Ahabs Prophets, Go forth and do so, and thou shalt prevail with him. There is a permissive intention, not an effective: when they grieve his Spirit, God withdraweth and leaveth them to the evil Spirit, who works by their fleshly and worldly lusts, and then they are easily seduced, who prefer Worldly things before Heavenly.