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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.
By raising the Heart to the lively a•t of Joy. Acts 13.52. The Disciples were filled with Joy, and with the Holy Ghost. Certainly, God comforteth the Heart both ways, by seeing the Grounds; as he worketh Faith. Man is a reasonable Creature, and it is not imaginable that the Holy Ghost shou•d comfort ⟨p. 435⟩us we know not why; he revealeth indeed Supernatural grounds of Comfort, but if they be not evident to Reason, they are evident to Faith: But then the very Joy is executed by the efficacy of his Impression. But of that more anon.
By raising the Heart to the lively a•t of Joy. Acts 13.52. The Disciples were filled with Ioy, and with the Holy Ghost. Certainly, God comforteth the Heart both ways, by seeing the Grounds; as he worketh Faith. Man is a reasonable Creature, and it is not imaginable that the Holy Ghost shou•d comfort ⟨p. 435⟩us we know not why; he revealeth indeed Supernatural grounds of Comfort, but if they be not evident to Reason, they are evident to Faith: But then the very Joy is executed by the efficacy of his Impression. But of that more anon.
3. In what sense Comfort may be said to be of God. I answer, Three ways.
3. In what sence Comfort may be said to be of God. I answer, Three ways.