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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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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.
1. That it is so, that we are empty, and God is All-sufficient, otherwise there would not be a foundation for Practical Godliness. That we are empty, John 15.5. Without me ye can do nothing: Not only nihil Magnum, but Nihil. So 2 Cor. 3.5. Not that we are sufficient of our selves, to think any thing as of our selves, for our sufficiency is of God. That is we are not able to think any thing in order to the Conversion of other Men, or our selves; we cannot imagine to enter upon this ⟨p. 350⟩design without any hope of success without God. That there is a Fullness in God to supply all our Wants. Ephes. 3.20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, abo•e what we can ask, or think: that is, above what we can imagine and pray for. If any Man seriously address himself to any serious Business, he is full of Imaginations, may it be effected, yea, or no? Alas, God outworketh their Thoughts and Prayers, and doth things which never entered into our Hearts to conceive: That there i• a Readiness in God to supply all our Wants, otherwise our Prayers would be little encouraged, and be dead in the Mouth. Now