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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.
1. By the rise of it, which is the mere love of God; for he calleth these Brethren, beloved of t•e Lord. And that the only original cause and motive of Election is God's Love, and Grace; this is asserted in other Scriptures. As for instance in the Types of Election and Reprobation, Rom. 9.13. Jacob have I loved, and Esau h•ve I hated. God's respect to Jacob above Esau, is ascribed to his love. So to the posterity of Jacob, whom he distinguished from other Nations. Deut. 7.7, 8. The Lord did not set his love upon you, and choose you, because ye were more in number than any People, for ye were the fewest of all People; but ⟨p. 267⟩because the Lord loved you. And still the Lord's Election is an Election of Grace. There is no antecedent worthiness in the People whom he chooseth, 2 Tim. 1.9. not according to our Works, but according to his own Purpose, and Grace, which was given in Christ Jesus, before the World began. Now Grace is nothing, but the Love of God working freely, and of its own Inclination.
1. By the rise of it, which is the meer love of God; for he calleth these Brethren, •eloved of t•e Lord. And that the only original cause and motive of Election is God's Love, and Grace; this is asserted in other Scriptures. As for instance in the Types of Election and Reprobation, Rom. 9.13. Iacob have I loved, and Esau h•ve I hated. God's respect to Iacob above Esau, is ascribed to his love. So to the posterity of Iacob, whom he distinguished from other Nations. Deut. 7.7, 8. The Lord did not set his love upon you, and choose you, because ye were more in number than any People, for ye were the fewest of all People; but