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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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VI. Observ. They to whom Christ is a Lord, to them God is a Father: his special Fatherly Love floweth in the Chanel of Redemption, and is brought about by the Gospel. The Lord from all Eternity, predeterminated some to the Adoption of Sons: Eph. 1.5. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himself▪ according to the good pleasure of his Will. But how doth he bring to pass this Decree? By the Redemption of Christ. It is no mean Privilege, Christians, that needeth so much ado to establish it. Gal. 4.4, 5. Bu• when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, To redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons. Christ came to be the Foundation of a New Covenant, before we could have this Privilege. Well, but whence ariseth our actual Interest? I answer: By accepting the offer of the Gospel, or receiving and owning Christ to the ends for which he came into the World, or ⟨p. 371⟩God sent him into the World. John 1.12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his Name: That is, by depending on his Merits for our Reconciliation with God, and submitting to his Laws, that he might reduce us to our Primitive Obedience, and Love to them.
VI. Observ. They to whom Christ is a Lord, to them God is a Father: his special Fatherly Love floweth in the Chanel of Redemption, and is brought about by the Gospel. The Lord from all Eternity, predeterminated some to the Adoption of Sons: Eph. 1.5. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Iesus Christ to himself▪ according to the good pleasure of his Will. But how doth he bring to pass this Decree? By the Redemption of Christ. It is no mean Privilege, Christians, that needeth so much ado to establish it.