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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. When the Matter is provided by him. God in the New Covenant hath propounded excellent grounds of Comfort: John 14.1. Let not your Hearts be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. The two great general grounds of support against Heart-Trouble, are God's merciful Nature, and Christ's Mediation; more particular in the New Covenant, the promises of Pardon and Life. Of Pardon of Sin, Rom. 5.1, 2, 3. Therefore being justified by Faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, &c. And of Life Eternal, 1 Thess. 4.18. And so shall we ever be with the Lord; wherefore comfort one another with these words. It is good to see ⟨p. 437⟩what Comforts we live upon, and propound to our selves, and others, more expressly as to Afflictions, God's particular Providence, that nothing falleth out without God's Appointment. 1 Thess. 3.3. That no Man should be moved with these Afflictions, for your selves know that we were appointed thereunto. It is not Chance, or a natural Accident, but that which God hath appointed. If any Shimei rail, the Lord hath bid him curse: If any evil come to us, is it without God's Fatherly care over his People, who ordereth all things for their Profit? Heb. 12.10 They verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure:, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of his Holiness. And his unchangeable Love, which doth not vary, and alter with our Condition: Heb. 12.6. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth. He is our God still, though he seemeth to deal hardly with us. We learn of Christ on the very Cross to cry, My God, Matth. 27.46 and if we cannot find enough in him, when the Creatures and our natural Comforts fail, it is meet we should lose them.