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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.) That God may now do us good without any impeachment of his Honour: His Justice and Holiness is sufficiently demonstrated, the Authority of his Law, and Truth of his Threatenings kept up. Rom. 3.25, 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time his Righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
(1.) That God may now do us good without any impeachment of his Honour: His Justice and Holiness is sufficiently demonstrated, the Authority of his Law, and Truth of his Threatnings kept up. Rom. 3.25, 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time his Righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Iesus.
(2.) That after God by an antecedent bounty hath laid the Foundation so broad and deep, the consequent bounty, which is as the upper Building, for which this Foundation was intended, will be laid on also. It was said of the foolish Builder, That he began and was not able to finish: Surely the wise God, if we be qualified, and put no ⟨p. 382⟩impediment on our part, will finish what he hath begun.
(2.) That after God by an antecedent bounty hath layed the Foundation so broad and deep, the consequent bounty, which is as the upper Building, for which this Foundation was intended, will be laid on also. It was said of the foolish Builder, That he began and was not able to finish: Surely the wise God, if we be qualified, and put no