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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.
But now for the Effects, I shall instance in two, which suit with the Prayer in the Text, Consolation in Troubles, and Confirmation in Holiness.
1. Support in Troubles, when we are certainly persuaded of an happy issue, we are the better kept from fainting: Phil. 1.19. I ⟨p. 409⟩know that this shall turn to my Salvation, &c. He speaketh it of his Troubles, and the Machinations of his Adversaries; and this Knowledge he calleth in the 20th Verse, his earnest Expectation and his Hope. The bitterest Cross is sweetened by Hope, this carried him through his Sufferings, not only with Patience, but Comfort. As Men in a storm, when they see Land, take courage; it is but enduring a little more Tempest, and they shall be safe on Shore. To a hoping Christian, his whole Life is a rough Voyage, but a short one.
1. Support in Troubles, when we are certainly persuaded of an happy issue, we are the better kept from fainting: Phil. 1.19. I ⟨p. 409⟩know that this shall turn to my Salvation, &c. He speaketh it of his Troubles, and the Machinations of his Adversaries; and this Knowledg he calleth in the 20th Verse, his earnest Expectation and his Hope. The bitterest Cross is sweetned by Hope, this carried him through his Sufferings, not only with Patience, but Comfort. As Men in a storm, when they see Land, take courage; it is but enduring a little more Tempest, and they shall be safe on Shore. To a hoping Christian, his whole Life is a rough Voyage, but a short one.