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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. We are called to Holiness, this is every where asserted in the Scripture. 1 Thess. 4.7. For God hath not called us to Uncleanness, but to Holiness. And it enforceth it on several Grounds:
2. We are called to Holiness, this is every where asserted in the Scripture. 1 Thess. 4.7. For God hath not called us to Vncleanness, but to Holiness. And it enforceth it on seveveral Grounds:
As (1.) That there may be a likeness between the Person calling, and the Persons called. 1 Pet. 1.15. But as he that called you is Holy, so be ye holy in all manner of Conversation. It is true Religion, to imitate what we worship: For Knowledge and Esteem, always work an Assimilation; and therefore if we know the True God, and love him, we will study to be like him. Certainly, we have not a true knowledge of God, if we do not know him to be a Pure and Holy God; he hath showed it in his Laws, showed it in his Providence, and showed it in his Gospel, by which we are called. The Gods of the Heathen taught Sin, by their own Example: Their impure Lives, are recorded by their Poets. Austin t•lleth us of a Young Man, who was incited to Wantonness, by seeing the Picture of Jupiter on the Wall, committing Adultery. Quo pacto se non faceret, cum in Templo adorare cogeretur Jovem potius quam ⟨p. 299⟩Catonem. But our God is Pure, as appeareth by his Laws, which are all Holy, Just, and Good, Psal. 119.140. Surely such holy Precepts could come from none, but a Pure and Holy God. As also by the Work of his Spirit on his People.