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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.) 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, ⟨p. 369⟩For they verily for a few days chastened •s after their own pleasure, b•t he for our profit, fit, that we might be partaker• of his Holiness. Children, though they take •t ill to be beaten by others, yet not by their Parents, who (under God) are the cause of their Being, and love them, and in correction of them seek their Good: Much more do we owe this respect to our Heavenly Father, who hath a more absolute right over us. Parents may err through want of Wisdom, their Chastisements may be arbitrary, and irregular, do much in Passion rather than Compassion; but all God's Chastisements come from purest Love, and are regulated by perfect Wisdom, and tend to, and end in Holiness and Happiness.
(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. Furtermore, 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 , not Legitimate, but Degenerate Sons. But in the 10th Verse, the Apostle argueth from God's Paternal Authority,