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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. It is certain that among Men, Relation to any Person or thing endeareth them to us, [Greek or Hebrew], Men love their own Children; though not so fair and good as others, yet they are their own. And is it not so as to God? See John 13.1. Having loved his own that were in the World, he loved them unto the end. And John 17.6. I have manifested thy Name to the Men which thou gavest me out of the World; thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy Word.
1. It is certain that among Men, Relation to any Person or thing indeareth them to us, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Men love their own Children; though not so fair and good as others, yet they are their own. And is it not so as to God? See Iohn 13.1. Having loved his own that were in the World, he loved them unto the end. And Iohn 17.6. I have manifested thy Name to the Men which thou gavest me out of the World; thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy Word.
2. Interest giveth us more encouragement. Isa. 63.19. We are thine, thou never bearest rule over them, they were never called by thy Name: That is, we are thy People, thy ⟨p. 373⟩Subjects, so called, so accounted. That Interest giveth some hope and confidence is evident, because sometimes the Saints plead the common Relation, that they are the Workmanship of his hands; Psalm. 119.73