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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. Your belief of the Truth, that is, of the Gospel. Now this is meant not of a dead Faith, or such a cold Assent, as only begets an Opinion in us of the truth of Christian Religion; but such a lively Faith, as bringeth us under the power of it. For it is opposed to them that do not receive the Truth in the love of it, Ver. 10. To them that believed not the Truth, because they had pleasure in Unrighteousness: Ver. 12. That lived under the power of fleshly and worldly Lusts. And it is spoken of them who had received the Truth, so as to obey it, and suffer for it, as the Thessalonians are described all along. And in short, such a belief of the Truth, as caused them to enter into Covenant with Christ, and make conscience of their Fidelity to him. And here in this Verse we learn, That a bare belief of the Truth doth not save, unless accompanied with the Sanctification of the Spirit. And therefore both must be taken together: when the Word cometh to us not in Word only, but in Power, and much assurance and joy in the Holy Ghost, it is an infallible evidence of our Election of God, 1 Thess. 1.5. Alas, many have a general cold belief of the Gospel, that never felt the effect of it upon their Hearts.
2. Your belief of the Truth, that is, of the Gospel. Now this is meant not of a dead Faith, or such a cold Assent, as only begets an Opinion in us of the truth of Christian Religion; but such a lively Faith, as bringeth us under the power of it. For it is opposed to them that do not receive the Truth in the love of it, Ver. 10. To them that believed not the Truth, because they had pleasure in Vnrighteousness: Ver. 12. That lived under the power of fleshly and worldly Lusts. And it is spoken of them who had received the Truth, so as to obey it, and suffer for it, as the Thessalonians are described all along. And in short, such a belief of the Truth, as caused them to enter into Covenant with Christ, and make conscience of their Fidelity to him. And here in this Verse we learn, That a bare belief of the Truth doth not save, unless accompanied with the Sanctification of the Spirit. And therefore both must be taken together: when the Word cometh to us not in Word only, but in Power, and much assurance and joy in the Holy Ghost, it is an infallible evidence of our Election of God, 1 Thess. 1.5. Alas, many have a general cold belief of the Gospel, that never felt the effect of it upon their Hearts.