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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.
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; John 1.14. The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us. 1 Tim. 3.16. Grace is the Mystery of Godliness, God manifested in the Flesh: So that he is more acceptable to us, and nearer at hand, and more readily inclined to help us, for he will not be strange to his own Flesh.
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 incouraged 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; John 1.14. The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us. 1 Tim. 3.16. Grace is the Mystery of Godliness, God manifested in the Flesh: So that he is more acceptable to us, and nearer at hand, and more readily inclined to help us, for he will not be strange to his own Flesh.
2. The Difference and Controversy is taken up by the Work of his Redemption; for God hath set him forth to be a Propitiation, or a means of appeasing his Wrath,