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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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3. That he is able to perform it: Faith looks to that also; for this was the ground and prop of Abraham's Faith; Rom. 4.21. Being fully persuaded, that what God had promised, he was able to perform: So must all Abraham's Children, that would give glory to God in believing. The Way of Salvation is so rare and mysterious, and so many difficulties object themselves to our view, that we are soon puddered, unless we reflect upon the Power of God. God is able to find out a way, whereby Sinners may be reconciled, our corrupt Hearts sanctified, and our Sins subdued by his Spirit, whereby his Interest in us may be preserved against the Assaults and Temptations of the Devil, World and Flesh; ⟨p. 394⟩he is able to receive our Souls to himself after they flit out of the Body: And finally, He is able to raise our vile Bodies, after they are eaten out by Worms, and turned into Dust; Phil. 3.21. Who shall change our vile Bodies, that they may be like unto his own glorious Body; according to the working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Matters of Faith being wholly or mainly future, or to come, and difficult to be performed. And in the mean time, we being exercise• with so many Trials, an express belief of God's Power is necessary to convert such an obstinate Creature as Man is: to sanctify such a sinful Creature, to preserve us in the midst of Temptations, to raise the Dead, are no slight things.
[3.] It is called everlasting Consolation, because it is sufficient to do its Work: That is to say,