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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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(1.) Distance. We are stranged from God by the Fall, and having lost his Image, lost his Favour, and Fellowship, and all communion with him; so that God now is looked upon by us, as out of the reach of our Commerce, which hindereth our love and confidence in him; for we can hardly depend ⟨p. 357⟩upon one so far above us, that he will take notice of us, or take care for us, so as to relieve us in our Necessities, or help us in our Miseries, and give us the Blessings we ask of him, or that we shall be welcome to him, when we come with our Prayers and Supplications. God taught the Israelites their distance; and the Apostle telleth us, that all that dispensation the Holy Ghost did signify, That the way into the Holiest was not yet made manifest, w•ile the first Tabernacle was standing, Heb. 9.8. They could not come near God without danger of Death; he would not have them so familiar w•th him.
(1.) Distance. We are stranged from God by the Fall, and having lost his Image, lost his Favour, and Fellowship, and all communion with him; so that God now is looked upon by us, as out of the reach of our Commerce, which hindreth our love and confidence in him; for we can hardly depend ⟨p. 357⟩upon one so far above us, that he will take notice of us, or take care for us, so as to relieve us in our Necessities, or help us in our Miseries, and give us the Blessings we ask of him, or that we shall be welcome to him, when we come with our Prayers and Supplications. God taught the Israelites their distance; and the Apostle telleth us, that all that dispensation the Holy Ghost did signify, That the way into the Holiest was not yet made •anifest, w•ile the first T•bernacle was standing, Heb. 9.8. They could not come near God without danger of Death; he would not have them so familiar w•th him.