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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. Because what cometh from God, must ⟨p. 349⟩be sought of God. Ezek. 36.37. I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel, to do it for them. Compared with the 26 Vers. A new Heart will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you. We must express our desires to God for things agreeable to his Will, for God will not force Spiritual Blessings upon us, nor give them to us, unless we desire them: Some things he gave us unasked, and without our desire, consent, or knowledge, as a Mediator, a New Covenant, or offers of Grace, yea, the first gift of the Spirit; but in other things we are obliged to ask.
2. Because what cometh from God, must ⟨p. 349⟩be sought of God. Ezek. 36.37. I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel, to do it for them. Compared with the 26 Vers. A new Heart will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you. We must express our desires to God for things agreeable to his Will, for God will not force Spiritual Blessings upon us, nor give them to us, unless we desire them: Some things he gave us unasked, and without our desire, consent, or knowledg, as a Mediator, a New Covenant, or offers of Grace, yea, the first gift of the Spirit; but in other things we are obliged to ask.
3. A great part of Man's Duty dependeth on Prayer seriously performed: There is nothing so conducible to the maintaining of Communion between us and God, as a daily sense of our Emptiness, and God's both Fullness and readiness to supply all our Wants.
3. A great part of Man's Duty dependeth on Prayer seriously performed: There is nothing so conducible to the maintaining of Communion between us and God, as a daily sence of our Emptiness, and God's both Fulness and readiness to supply all our Wants.