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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.) Man at best is but a Creature; the New Creation doth carry a great correspondence with the Old and First Creation: 'Tis not enough that the Creature be, but he must be sustained in Being; we have our Being in God still, Acts 17.28. For in him we live, and move, and have our Being. As Providence is a continual Creation, so stablishing Grace is the continuance of the New Creation. The same Grace that sets us in the state of the New Creation, the same stablisheth us. God found no stability in the Angels, therefore it is said he trusteth them not, Job 15.15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his Saints; yea, the Heavens are not clean in his sight. They stand by the Grace and Favour of God. Take the best Creatures even as Creatures, they are defective and unstable in themselves; for God will have the Creature, as a Creature, to be a dependent thing on the Creator, who only is a Being of himself. Man at his best estate was but an unstable Creature, for Adam gave out at the first assault, and since we are very unstable, blown down with the blast of every little Temptation. Even in the State of Grace, we are like a Glass without a bottom, broken as soon as out of hand; and therefore God alone is able to make us stand, ⟨p. 472⟩and persevere in this Grace that we •ave received. 2 Cor. 1.21. Now •e tha• stablisheth us with you in Christ, is God. After we are in Christ, our stability is in God alone.
(1.) Man at best is but a Creature; the New Creation doth carry a great correspondence with the Old and First Creation: 'Tis not enough that the Creature be, but he must be sustained in Being; we have our Being in God still, Acts 17.28. For in him we live, and move, and have our Being. As Providence is a continual Creation, so stablishing Grace is the continuance of the New Creation. The same Grace that sets us in the state of the New Creation, the same stablisheth us. God found no stability in the Angels, therefore it is said he trusteth them not,