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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.
(5.) He will give you the Kingdom. Luke 12.32. Fear not little Flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
2. On the other side, this Relation bespeaketh Duty. For if God be a Father, we must carry our selves as Children by our subjection to him; that is, by submission to his Disposing-Will, and obedience to his Governing Will.
2. On the other side, this Relation bespeak•th Duty. For if God be a Father, we must carry our selves as Children by our subjection to him; that is, by submission to his Disposing-Will, and obedience to his Governing Will.
(1.) By an absolute submission to his Disposing-Will. For if you would enjoy the Privileges of God's Family, you must submit to the Discipline of his Family. Heb. 12.6, 7, 8, 9. For whom God loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth. If you endure chastening, God dealeth wit• you as with Sons: for what Son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if you are without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye Bastards, and not Sons. Furthermore, we have had Fathers of our Flesh, which chastened us, and we gave them Reverence: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of Spirits, and live? In Heaven, where there is no danger of Sin, there is no use of the the Rod; but while we are in the Flesh, we need Correction, and if God should not give it us, we are [Greek or Hebrew], not Legitimate, but Degenerate Sons. But in the 10th Verse, the Apostle argueth from God's Paternal Authority,