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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.
Use. Let us be sensible of this unspeakable Mercy, that God hath provided a Mediator for us, that we may come to God by him: Heb. 7.25. Wherefore he is able to save unto the uttermost, all that come unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for us: That the legal Exclusion is removed, and a way opened to the Father; John 14.6. I am the W•y, the Truth, and the Life; no Man cometh to the Father but by me: Otherwise we could not immediately converse with God, nor trust in him.
Vse. Let us be sensible of this unspeakable Mercy, that God hath provided a Mediator for us, that we may come to God by him: Heb. 7.25. Wherefore he is able to save unto the •ttermost, all that come unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for us: That the legal Exclusion is removed, and a way opened to the Father; John 14.6. I am the W•y, the Truth, and the Life; no Man cometh to the Father but by me: Otherwise we could not immediately converse with God, nor trust in him.
(1.) We see God in our Nature as near at hand, and ready to help; he came down amongst us, and became one of us; was bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh: And though he hath removed his dwelling into Heaven again, it is for our sakes, he hath carried our Nature thither, to take possession of that blessed Place in our Name, if we have a mind ⟨p. 360⟩to follow him; John 14.2