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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.
A Congregation; Mat. 25.32. Before him shall be gathered all Nations; And not only all Nations, but all Persons, 2 Cor. 5.10. We must all (collectivè) appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ, that every one (distributivè) may receive according to the things done in his body, &c. All that have lived from the beginning of the World unto that day, shall without exception of any one single person, from the least unto the greatest, appear before the Tribunal of Christ; no Age, no Sex, or Nation, or Dignity, or Greatness, can excuse us. In the World some are too high to be questioned, others too low to be taken notice of, but there all are brought forth to undergo their Trial; there is no shifting or avoiding this day of appearance; Adam will there meet with all his Posterity at once. Take all the distinctions of Mankind, Infants, and grown Persons; I mean Infants who die before they are in an ordinary way capable of the Doctrine of Life (the Scriptures are written for grown persons, the Case of Infants is more obscure,) those of them who are born within the Church, God is their God; Gen. 17.7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy Seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy Seed after thee. Good and bad is the next ⟨p. 18⟩distinction, both forts come to receive their Sentence; only the one come to the Judgment of Condemnation, the other to the Judgment of Absolution, John 5.28, 29. Those that have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to the resurrection of Condemnation; Acts 24.15. There shall be a resurrection of the dead; both of the just and unjust. The next distinction is men of all Callings, Apostles, Ministers, private Christians; Apostles, Paul expected to be judged, 1 Cor. 4.4. I know nothing of my self, yet am I not thereby justified, but he that judgeth me is the Lord; he speaketh with respect to the execution of the Apostolical Office: Ordinary Ministers,