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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.] God is represented under the Title of a Father; and God even our Father. God is a word of Power, Father expresseth his good Will and Love; God standeth in both Relations to us, as he did also to Christ. John 20.17. I go to my God, and your God; my Father, and your Father. Both joined together signify his Power, and readiness to do Good. He that is our Father is true God also, and he that is true God is also our Father; and therefore we may depend on him. That which we are to open is, the term Father, which speaketh both Comfort, and Duty to us.
[2.] God is represented under the Title of a Father; and God even our Father. God is a word of Power, Father expresseth his good Will and Love; God standeth in both Relations to us, as he did also to Christ. John 20.17. I go to my God, and your God; my Father, and your Father. Both joyned together signifie his Power, and readiness to do Good. He that is our Father is true God also, and he that is true God is also our Father; and therefore we may depend on him. That which we are to open is, the term Father, which speaketh both Comforth, and Duty to us.
1. Comfort. For God's dealing with us will be very Fatherly; as a Father loveth his Children, so will God love his People. 2 Cor. 6.18. I will be a Father to •ou, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters▪ saith the Lord.