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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.
Use 1. To reprove Christians for their overmuch dejection and fainting in Troubles. Why are we so much cast down? Is there no Balm in Gilead, nor Comfort in God? Why hath God taken the Name upon him, of being the God of all Comfort, and put this Office upon his Spirit to be the Comforter? Hath he not made sufficient provision in the New Covenant? Is there any evil, which the promise of Eternal Life cannot countervail? Is God backward to give you Comfort? Why then did he send Christ, write Scriptures, appoint a Ministry, and Ordinances, seek to prepare you for it, by the seal and earnest of his Spirit, and invite you so earnestly to trust in him, to cast all your care upon him, and so often forbid your Fear and Sorrow?
Vse 1. To reprove Christians for their overmuch dejection and fainting in Troubles. Why are we so much cast down? Is there no Balm in Gilead, nor Comfort in God? Why hath God taken the Name upo• him, of being the God of all Comfort, and put this Office upon his Spirit to be the Comforter? Hath he not made sufficient provision in the New Covenant? Is there any evil, which the promise of Eternal Life cannot countervail? Is God backward to give you Comfort? Why then did he send Christ, write Scriptures, appoint a Ministry, and Ordinances, seek to prepare you for it, by the seal and earnest of his Spirit, and invite you so earnestly to trust in him, to cast all your care upon him, and so often forbid your Fear and Sorrow?
2. If all Comfort be of God, let us go to God for it. But then take these three Directions.
1. See you be qualified for it. Comfort follows Holiness, as Heat doth Fire; the Spirit is first a Sanctifier, and then a Comforter: And according to God's Promise, is more necessarily a Sanctifier than a Comforter.