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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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(2.) In respect of the Degree and Measure of it; that is good Hope, which is most able to do its Office, when it is lively Hope. 1 Pet. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant Mercy hath begotten us again to a lively Hope. Such as doth most support and quicken us: The more serious and earnest our reflections are upon Eternal Life, the better is the Hope. Heb. 6.12. Show the same diligence to the full assurance of Hope unto the end. We should still keep up this sure and desirous Expectation. Briefly, Hope the Grace is two-fold.
(2.) In respect of the Degree and Measure of it; that is good Hope, which is most able to do its Office, when it is lively Hope. 1 Pet. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which according to his abundant Mercy hath begotten us again to a lively Hope. Such as doth most support and quicken us: The more serious and earnest our reflections are upon Eternal Life, the better is the Hope. Heb. 6.12. Shew the same diligence to the full assurance of Hope unto the end. We should still keep up this sure and desirous Expectation. Briefly, Hope the Grace is two-fold.
1. There is an Hope, which is the immediate effect of Regeneration, and is a constitutive part of the New Creature. Of that the Apostle speaketh, 1 Pet. 1.3. Begotten to a lively Hope. This merely floweth from our acceptance of the New Covenant, and dependeth upon the conditional offer of Eternal ⟨p. 408⟩Life, we take it for our Happiness, resolving to seek it in God's Way; without this a Man cannot be a Christian, till he hope for Eternal Life to be given him upon Christ's Terms.