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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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3. When by these means God worketh Comfort in us. Joy is often called the Comfort of the Spirit, and Joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom 14.17. Now all the Spirit's. Works are singular, and do much exceed the natural Work of Man's Heart: The groans which he stirreth up in Prayer are unutterable, Rom. 8.26. His Joys unspeakable and glorious, 1 Pet. 1.8. The Heathens counted that Fire more sit and pure for their Altars, which was enkindled by a Sun-beam, rather than a Coal taken from a common Hearth. So this Comfort which is raised in us by the Holy Ghost, is more Rich and Glorious, and Affective, than that which is the fruit of our bare Reason, or the mere working of our Human Spirit, even in the common grounds of Christian Comfort. Or as Elementary Fire differeth from Culinary and Kitchen Fire, and is much more pure: So doth this Joy, which is immediately wrought in us by •he Spirit, from all Joy that we can work by our selves, out of the Scriptural Grounds of Comfort. Carnal Men have their Joy at the second or third Hand, as God blesseth the order and influence of Inferior Causes, it comes to them from Creature to Creature, so as they discern not the Work of God in it; yea, the Joy of common Christians in the proper grounds of Comfort is not strong, as that which is raised in us by the immediate impression of the Comforting Spirit.
3. When by these means God worketh Comfort in us. Joy is often called the Comfort of the Spirit, and Ioy in the Holy Ghost, Rom 14.17. Now all the Spirit's. Works are singular, and do much exceed the natural Work of Man's Heart: The groans which he stirreth up in Prayer are unutterable, Rom. 8.26. His Joys unspeakable and glorious, 1 Pet. 1.8. The Heathens counted that Fire more sit and pure for their Altars, whic• was inkindled by a Sun-beam, rather than a Coal taken from a common Hearth. So this Comfort which is raised in us by the Holy Ghost, is more Rich and Glorious, and Affective, than that which is the fruit of our bare Reason, or the meer working of our Human Spirit, even in the common grounds of Christian Comfort. Or as Elementary Fire differeth from Culinary and Kitchin Fire, and is much more pure: So doth this Joy, which is immediately wrought in us by he Spirit, from all Joy that we can work by our selves, out of the Scriptural Grounds of Comfort. Carnal Men have their Joy at the second or third Hand, as God blesseth the order and influence of Inferiour Causes, it comes to them from Creature to Creature, so as they discern not the Work of God in it; yea, the Joy of common Christians in the proper grounds of Comfort is not strong, as that which is raised in us by the immediat impression of the Comforting Spirit.