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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.
I will prove it by three Arguments.
[1.] The Comforts propounded are of an everlasting Tendency and Benefit, Pardon and Life, to free us from everlasting Death, and to bring us into the possession of everlasting Happiness, when our Souls and Bodies shall be for ever glorified in Heaven. Now the Consolation grounded on the promise of Eternal Life, whatever it be in our feeling, is in its causes and foundation Eternal. The Scripture often insists upon this: 1 John 2. 25. And this is the Promise that he hath promised us, even Eternal Life. Heb. 5.9. And being made Perfect, he became the Author of eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him. We have by Christ deliverance from Sin, and and all the Consequents of it, not only for a time, but for ever: Eternal Peace and Felicity is our Portion. So it is said, Psal. 119.111. Thy Testimonies have I taken for an Heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my Heart. It is not an Heritage to lean upon for a while, as all our Worldly Comforts are, ⟨p. 389⟩but for ever: So Psal. 73.26. God is my Portion for ever: That is, when all other things fail, have spent their allowance, can afford us no more relief; then we begin to enjoy our true and proper Portion. It were endless to heap up places. Man for his Sin was cast out of Paradise: but surely in the other World, there is no change of Estate; for Men are past their Trial, and must be what they are for ever. If you could imagine (as some have had the large charity to conceit it) that the condition of the Wicked should be changed, yet there is no Reason at all why the state of the Godly should be changed, who have past the Pikes, and are triumphing with God, that they should ever lose that Estate again.