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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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2. Since it is necessary that God should some way or other reveal his Mind to his People; it must be done by Oracles, Visions, Dreams, or by extraordinary Messengers, who by word of Mouth might convey it to us: Or else by Writing, or •y ordinary Teachers, whose Lips may preserve Knowledge in the Church. The former ways might suffice while God saw fit, to reveal but a few Truths, and such as do not burden the Memory, and Men were long-lived, and of great Simplicity, and the Church was confined within a small compass of Ground, and not liable to so many Miseries and Changes, as now in the latter Ages; but when once God had spoken to us by his Son, •hose extraordinary Ways ceased. Heb. 1.1, 2, God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past to the Fathers by the Prophets; hath in these last Times spoken to us by his Son. As formerly God did speak [Greek or Hebrew], in divers manners: That is to say, by Visions, Oracles, Dreams; and so [Greek or Hebrew], at sundry times, by several Steps and Degrees, he acquainted the World with the Truths necessary for Man to know, delivering them out by Portions, not altogether at once, till he came who had the Spirit without measure, John 3.34. The Prophets to whom God revealed himself before, by Visions, Oracles, Dreams, or the coming of the Spirit upon ⟨p. 337⟩them, had the Spirit, [Greek or Hebrew], by measure, to fit them for some particular Errand, or Message, on which God sent them. But when God sent his Son out of his Bosom to reveal the whole Doctrine of Faith at once, and to declare his Fathers Will with full Authority and Power, he fixed and closed up the Rule of Faith. So 'twas not fit that after him there should come any extraordinary Nuncio's and Ambassadors from Heaven, or any other should be owned as Infallible Messengers, but such as he immediately sent abroad in the World to disciple the Nations. Therefore all former extraordinary ways ceased, and we are left to the ordinary Rule stated by Christ.
2. Since it is necessary that God should some way or other reveal his Mind to his People; it must be done by Oracles, Visions, Dreams, or by extraordinary Messengers, who by word of Mouth might convey it to us: Or else by Writing, or y ordinary Teachers, whose Lips may preserve Knowledg in the Church. The former ways might sufice while God saw fit, to reveal but a few Truths, and such as do not burden the Memory, and Men were long-liv'd, and of great Simplicity, and the Church was confined within a small compass of Ground, and not liable to so many Miseries and Changes, as now in the latter Ages; but when once God had spoken to us by his Son, hose extraordinary Ways ceased.