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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. 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. Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn thy Commandments: They will not quit their Interest in God, if they cannot come as his special Servants, yet as his Creatures, one way another, they will entitle themselves to him.
2. Interest giveth us more incouragement. 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. Thy hands have made me, and fas•ioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn thy Commandments: They will not quit their Interest in God, if they cannot come as his special Servants, yet as his Creatures, one way another, they will intitle themselves to him.
Use. To direct the Servants of God, when they ask any Grace of him, to bring it to his still, Our Lord, and our Father. But how shall they do so, if they have no assurance? I answer: