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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. This is a visible effect and demonstration of his Love to us; 1 John 3.16. Hereby perceive we the Love of God to us, in that he laid down his life for us. And I John 4.9, 10. In this was manifested the Love of God towards us, in that he sent his only begotten Son into the World, that we might live by him: Herein was Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent •is Son to be a propitiation for our sins. From these places I gather, that to found our Confidence and Hope, it was needful that the Love God had to us, s•ould show it self by some manifest and real proof. How can we tell how God's Heart standeth affected to mankind but by the Effects? What-ever benevolence or good-will he had towards us, it is not evident to us till it break forth into ⟨p. 377⟩some Action, and real performance of some great thing for us. Now this was fully manifested, in giving his Son to die for a sinful World, that he hath a love for us, and doth really desire our Salvation. There is an hidden love of God, which is his eternal Purpose and Decree; and there is an open and declared Love, and that is first and most seen in our Redemption by Christ. In Predestination his Love was conceived in his Heart; in Redemption it is manifested in the Effects, that was the Rise, this the visible Demonstration and Sign of it: Now the Apostle would not reason from what was hidden and secret, but from what is open and manifest.
1. This is a visible effect and demonstration of his Love to us; 1 John 3.16. Hereby perceive we the Love of God to us, in that he layed down his life for us. And I Iohn 4.9, 10. In this was manifested the Love of God towards us, in that he sent his only begotten Son into the World, that we might live by him: Herein was Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent •is Son to be a propitia•ion for our sins. From these places I gather, that to found our Confidence and Hope, it was needful that the Love God had to us, sould shew it self by some manifest and real proof. How can we tell how God's Heart standeth affected to mankind but by the Effects? What-ever benevolence or good-will he had towards us, it is not evident to us till it break forth into