A51839:866
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.
4. With respect to the Uses for which it serveth, as to Duties, Sufferings, Conflicts.
(1.) Doing the Will of God, or discharging our Doings with Delight, Cheerfulness, and Constancy: for all strength is for Work. Ephes. 3.16. That he would grant you according to the riches of his Glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner Man. That we may do our work with that readiness of Mind, which becomes Faith in Christ, and Love to God. This is often spoken of in Scripture, Phil. 2.13. For it is God that ⟨p. 467⟩worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure, [Greek or Hebrew]. And Heb. 13.21. Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you what is well pleasing in his sight. It is of great use to our establishment, that the Soul be kept doing; for as Wells are the sweeter for draining, so are we the more lively for exercise. Frequent omission of good Duties, or seldom exercise of Grace, necessarily produceth a decay: As a Key rusteth that is seldom turned in the Lock, thereby we lose the life and comfort of Religion, and at length cast it off as a needless and unprofitable thing.
(1.) Doing the Will of God, or discharging our Doings with Delight, Chearfulness, and Constancy: for all strength is for Work. Ephes. 3.16. That he would grant you according to the riches of his Glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner Man. That we may do our work with that readiness of Mind, which becomes Faith in Christ, and Love to God. This is often spoken of in Scripture,