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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. 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.
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 meerly 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.
2. There is an Hope, which is the fruit of Experience, and belongeth to the seasoned and tried Christian, who hath approved his own fidelity to God, and hath much trial of God's Fidelity and Faithfulness to him: Of this it is said, Rom. 5.4. that Experience worketh Hope. It differeth from the former, because it produceth not only a conditional Certainty; but an actual confidence of our own Salvation. The former is necessary, for we live and act by it; the other is very comfortable, for it facilitateth all our Acts, when we know there is reserved for us a Crown of Life, which the Righteous Judg will give in that Day, and do not only believe a Resurrection both of the Just and Unjust, but our own Resurrection unto Eternal Life.