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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. What reason the Apostle had to speak at this rate.
2. What little reason these Seducers had to pervert this Speech to countenance their Hypothesis or supposition.
1. For the first, the Apostle had reason to say the day of the Lord was at hand.
1. With respect of Faith; for Faith gives a kind of presence to things, Heb. 11.1. Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen: That is, it gives a being, a kind of existence to things future, and afar off, and sets them before the eyes of our mind, and gives us some sight of them, as if they were already come. And therein it agrees with the light of Prophecy; look as by the light of Prophecy, John saith, Rev. 20.12. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the Books were opened, &c. so saith doth in effect see what it believes. Wl then, Faith looking upon things distant an absent, as near at hand, the Apostle had reason to use this language to Believers, as if the Judge were at the door.