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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
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5. We have not only Glory by Christ, but with Christ; we shall have the same Glory Christ now hath, but in our measure. The same Glory in kind, whereunto Christ's humanity is advanced, referring to him only his privilege in the degree. So Rom. 8.17. And if Children, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and joint-Heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Rev. 3.21. To him that overcometh, will I grant, to sit with me in my Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne. We share with him in his own Blessedness, so far as we are capable.
5. We have not only Glory by Christ, but with Christ; we shall have the same Glory Christ now hath, but in our measure. The same Glory in kind, whereunto Christ's humanity is advanced, referring to him only his priviledg in the degree. So Rom. 8.17. And if Children, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and joint-Heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Rev. 3.21. To him that overcometh, will I grant, to sit with me in my Trone, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne. We share with him in his own Blessedness, so far as we are capable.
2. That all those who are elected and chosen by God, are thus called. Election and Vocation have a great respect one to another; and though we cannot say, that none are called, that are not elected, for the Lord calleth others not only by the voice of Nature, but the Gospel. Matth. 22.14. Many are called, but few are chosen. Yet we may say, that none are chosen, but they are in time called, so that Vocation is as it were actual Election, they are often put one for another, as