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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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1. Use is Caution. Let us not have wrong thoughts of God, when we come to him. We think of God the Father as one that is all Wrath and Justice, and unwilling to be reconciled to Man, or brought to it with ⟨p. 383⟩much difficulty. No: Christ came on purpose to show the Love and Loveliness of God to us; for our Redemption came first out of the Bosom of God; and Christ's mission into the World, and dying for Sinners was the fruit of his Love, and mainly for this end to give us a full Demonstration of the Love of God, and his pity to the lost World of Sinners, that when our Guilt had made him frightful to us, we might not fly from him as a Condemning God; but love Him, and serve Him, and pray to Him, as one willing to be Reconciled to us; therefore take heed what Picture of God you draw in your Minds: Light and heat are not more abundant in the Sun, than Love is in God.
1. Vse is Caution. Let us not have wrong thoughts of God, when we come to him. We think of God the Father as one that is all Wrath and Justice, and unwilling to be reconciled to Man, or brought to it with ⟨p. 383⟩much difficulty. No: Christ came on purpose to show the Love and Loveliness of God to us; for our Redemption came first out of the Bosom of God; and Christ's mission into the World, and dying for Sinners was the fruit of his Love, and mainly for this end to give us a full Demonstration of the Love of God, and his pity to the lost World of Sinners, that when our Guilt had made him frightful to us, we might not fly from him as a Condemning God; but love Him, and serve Him, and pray to Him, as one willing to be Reconciled to us; therefore take heed what Picture of God you draw in your Minds: Light and heat are not more abundant in the Sun, than Love is in God.
2. Use of Direction to us, How to conceive of God in Prayer, as one that loveth us. We have gained a great point, when we are pe••uaded of this, and can come with this thought into his Presence; that I am praying to a God that loveth me, and will do me good. You will say, If I could come to that, I have gained a great point indeed: But what hindereth? There is, I confess, a two-fold Love; his General Love, and his Special Love. His General Love, which intendeth Benefits to us; and his Special Love, which hath already put us in possession of them. His General Love to the lost World, and his Love and Mercy to us in particular, putting