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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.
Second Use is Exhortation. It presseth you to two things.
1. Put in for a share and interest in this Mercy, that is to say, in the Apostle's words, 2 Pet. 1.10. Give diligence to make your Calling and election sure. God hath told us who are Elected, and who are not. Therefore our way is to accept of the general Grace offered, and to devote and resign our selves to God, and to depend upon the Merits of our Redeemer, and put our selves under the Discipline of his Spirit, in the use of the appointed Means, humbly waiting for his renewing and reconciling Grace, and every Day more and ⟨p. 284⟩more, by diligence in the holy and heavenly Life, getting your Interest more assured. For by this means do we come to know the purposed Love of God, and that he hath not appointed us to Wrath, but to obtain eternal Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. We need not say, who shall go up to Heaven to know the Mind of God? Our Election is known to us by our Vocation, and our Vocation by the Fruits, our walking before him in Holiness, and Righteousness all our Days. Surely the knowledge of our Election is a thing greatly to be desired, because our Eternal Happiness, and all Spiritual good Things depend upon it. Election is the free Love of God, by which he intendeth these Blessings to us. This is manifested by Calling, by which they begin to be applied to us; then the effectual Operation which these Blessings have in us discovereth Calling, when we call on the Name of Christ, and depart from Iniquity, 2 Tim. 2.19.
1. Put in for a share and interest in this Mercy, that is to say, in the Apostle's words, 2 Pet. 1.10. Give deligence to make your Calling and election sure. God hath told us who are Elected, and who are not. Therefore our way is to accept of the general Grace offered, and to devote and resign our selves to God, and to depend upon the Merits of our Redeemer, and put our selves under the Discipline of his Spirit, in the use of the appointed Means, humbly waiting for his renewing and reconciling Grace, and every Day more and