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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.) Difference, or Controversy; A Mediator is used only between disagreeing Parties. When Man was guilty, God was angry. Conscience of Sin presents God terrible, and taketh away all confidence from us, so that we are obnoxious to his Wrath and righteous Vengeance; Who is able to stand before this Holy God? 1 Sam. 6.20. And who can dwell with everlasting Burnings? Isa. 33.14. We cannot approach God in any friendly manner.
2. I shall show what Provision God hath •ade for us. The Lord Jesus took this Office at God's appointment, of reconciling God to us, and appeasing his Wrath, and us to God, by bringing us back again, our alienated ⟨p. 358⟩and estranged Affections to God. How so! what hath he done?
2. I shall shew what Provision God hath •ade for us. The Lord Jesus took this Office at God's appointment, of reconciling God to us, and appeasing his Wrath, and us to God, by bringing us back again, our alienated ⟨p. 358⟩and estranged Affections to God. How so! what hath he done?
1. The Distance is in truth taken away by his very Person, he is God-Man; God and Man meet together in the Person of Christ; God doth condescend and come down to Man, and Man is encouraged to ascend to God; God in Christ is nearer to Man than he was before, that we may have more familiar thoughts of him: The pure Deity is at so vast a distance from us, that we are amazed and confounded when we think of it, and cannot conceive an hope that he should concern himself in our ffairs: But the Son of God is come in our Nature;