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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.
I mean those that are so distinguished now; these distinctions do not outlive time, there all stand on the same level; the ruffling men of the World shall then be afraid, and call upon the Mountains to cover them from the wrath of him that sitteth upon the Throne, Rev. 6.16. The poor are not forgotten, they are Gods Creatures, and must undergo ⟨p. 19⟩his Judgment. Thus shall all people that live scattered up and down in the World, how much soever they differ from one another in Rites, Tongues, Customs of living, be brought together in one place.
I mean those that are so distinguished now; these distinctions do not outlive time, there all stand on the same level; the rufling men of the World shall then be afraid, and call upon the Mountains to cover them from the wrath of him that sitteth upon the Throne, Rev. 6.16. The poor are not forgotten, they are Gods Creatures, and must undergo ⟨p. 19⟩his Judgment. Thus shall all people that live scattered up and down in the World, how much soever they differ from one another in Rites, Tongues, Customs of living, be brought together in one place.
2. There is a Segregation: Mat. 25.32, 33. He shall separate the one from the other, as a Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats; and he shall set the Sheep on his right hand, and the Goats on his left. There may be now a confusion and mixture of the godly and the wicked, as Sheep and Goats feed in the same pasture, and they may be all raised together according to the places where they lived and died; but then a perfect separation: good and bad are first gathered together, but the good are drawn into a Company by themselves, but no pure Company, till the great Shepherd will judge between Cattle and Cattle,