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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.
3. Let us improve it many ways.
1. To comfort us against the paucity of serious walkers, and real Christians. Alas! now they are but like two or three Berries upon the top of the uppermost bough; here one, and there another; in some places thinner, in others thicker, as God hath service for them; in appearance [Greek or Hebrew], A little Flock, Luc. 12.32. But take all together, they are a general Assembly, that are redeemed out of every Kindred, Tongue, and Nation, Rev. 5.9. Yea, Rev. 7.9. A great multitude, which none can number, of all Kindreds, Tongues, People, and Nations; As few as we are, and as despised as the interest of the godly is, we shall not want Company in Heaven, we see few going to Heaven, but when we are gathered together, we shall see that our everlasting, Companions are many.
1. To comfort us against the paucity of serious walkers, and real Christians. Alas! now they are but like two or three Berryes upon the top of the uppermost bough; here one, and there another; in some places thinner, in others thicker, as God hath service for them; in appearance 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, A little Flock, Luc. 12.32. But take all together, they are a general Assembly, that are redeemed out of every Kindred, Tongue, and Nation, Rev. 5.9. Yea, Rev. 7.9. A great multitude, which none can number, of all Kindreds, Tongues, People, and Nations; As few as we are, and as despised as the interest of the godly is, we shall not want Company in Heaven, we see few going to Heaven, but when we are gathered together, we shall see that our everlasting, Companions are many.