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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. The Mind, or Understanding, is established, when we have a clear, certain, and full Apprehension of the truth of the Gospel, it is called Knowledge; the sure, and sound, and certain apprehension of them, is called Faith, or Intellectual Assent, or the full assurance of Understanding, Col. 2.2. when there is a due knowledge of what God hath revealed, with a certain persuasion of the truth of it wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. Now the more clearly, and orderly, and certainly we know these things, the more powerfully do they affect the Heart, and ⟨p. 463⟩the more we are established. He that hath little Knowledge, and little Certainty, is called weak in the Faith. Rom. 14.1. Him that is weak in the Faith receive, but not to doubtful Disputations. And those that have a clearer Understanding, are called strong. As Rom. 15.1. We that are s•rong, ought to bear the Infirmities of the Weak; meaning strong in Knowledge: So also for certainty of Persuasion, it is said, Rom. 4.20. Abraham was strong in Faith, giving glory to God. When in all his Trials, he bore up himself upon the Confidence of God's Word and Promise. Well then, the Mind is confirmed and established, when we have a good stock of Knowledge, and do firmly believe what we know of God and Christ, and eternal Salvation: But alas, how few Truths do many Christians know, especially in their order, and as to their worth and weight, and certainty, and so that if we know these things, we know them not as we ought to know them. 1 Cor. 8.2. If any Man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know them. If we know them Speculatively, we know them not Practically: If we are able to discourse of these things, we do not live by them: If we know them generally, we do not know them particularly, to direct us in all Cases, wherein they concern us, but are blinded with Temptations: If ⟨p. 464⟩