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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. Use. If Election be the great matter of Thanksgiving to God: Then surely this Doctrine should be heard in the Church; for the Life and Soul of Christian Religion is Gratitude; and what feedeth Gratitude, is of great use unto us: our Gratitude doth not rise high enough, till it come to the first cause that stirred and set all the Wh••ls awork, in the business of our Salvation. Surely this is a very profitable Point.
1. Vse. If Election be the great matter of Thanksgiving to God: Then surely this Doctrine should be heard in the Church; for the Life and Soul of Christian Religion is Gratitude; and what feedeth Gratitude, is of great use unto us: our Gratitude doth not rise high enough, till it come to the first cause that stirred and set all the Wh••ls awork, in the business of our Salvation. Surely this is a very profitable Point.
1. To detect the pride of Man, for here we see the true and proper cause of difference between us and others. 1 Cor. 4.7. Who maketh thee to differ? The dif•erencing Grace of God, proceeding from his Election, is the only true Grace.
2. Nothing more extolleth the Glory of God in our Salvation: For if Man can assume nothing to himself, the Glory alone redoundeth to God. The more reason and cause why some are chosen, and others past by, is God's good Pleasure. Matth. 11.26. Even so Father, because it pleased thee. Christ himself consents to it, giveth Thanks for it, as an act of free and undeserved Mercy.