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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.
3. It is set forth by the Antiquity of it, from the Beginning. Ephes. 1.4. He hath chosen us in him, before the Foundation of the World. And Matth. 25.34. Come, ye Blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you, from the Foundation of the World. Namely as they belonged to his choice Election. Love in God is of an old standing, even from all Eternity; his thoughts and purposes of Love, were towards us, a long time before they were discovered. Surely the Ancientness of his Love should beget an honourable esteem of it in our Hearts: For who are we, that the Thoughts of God should be taken up about us so long ago? And what is from everlasting, is to everlasting, Psal. 103.17. For what is from Eternity is to Eternity, and dependeth not upon •he accidents of Time.
3. It is set forth by the Antiquity of it, from the Beginning. Ephes. 1.4. He hath chosen us in him, before the Foundation of the World. And Matth. 25.34. Come, ye Blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you, from the Foundation of the World. Namely as they belonged to his choice Election. Love in God is of an old st•nding, even from all Eternity; his thoughts and purposes of Love, were towards us, a long time before they were discovered. Surely the Ancientness of his Love should beget an honourable esteem of it in our Hearts: For who are we, that the Thoughts of God should be taken up about us so long ago? And what is from everlasting, is to everlasting, Psal. 103.17. For what is from Eternity is to Eternity, and dependeth not upon •he accidents of Time.