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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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II. This must needs give great boldness in Prayer.
1. By this we see the God's Love is not a cold ineffectual Love, that consists only in raw wishes, but an operative active Love, that issueth forth to accomplish what he intendeth to us, though by the most costly means, and acted at the dearest rate. God is good, and doth good, Psal. 119.68. He hath a Love to us, and will do good to us. Our Love many times goes no further than good Wishes, or good Words, Be warmed, be clothed, but giveth not those things which are needful to the Body, James 2.16. but God resteth not in kind Wishes, but giveth a full demonstration of it: If Christ be needful to ⟨p. 380⟩•he Saints, they shall have him; if God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
1. By this we see the God's Love is not a cold ineffectual Love, that consists only in raw wishes, but an operative active Love, that issueth forth to accomplish what he intendeth to us, though by the most costly means, and acted at the dearest rate. God is good, and doth good, Psal. 119.68. He hath a Love to us, and will do good to us. Our Love many times goes no further than good Wishes, or good Words, Be warmed, be cloathed, but giveth not those things which are needful to the Body, Iames 2.16. but God resteth not in kind Wishes, but giveth a full demonstration of it: If Christ be needful to ⟨p. 380⟩•he Saints, they shall have him; if God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?