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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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4ly; We see here the Saints miscarry when God withdraweth his supporting Grace but in part; as Peter, David. Peter was in the state of Grace, and Christ prayed that his Faith might not utterly fail; y•t when God did not establish him, you see what Sins he was guilty of in that combat: David was a Man after God's own Heart, but how did he fall when God upheld him not? Psal. 51. Hezekiah, […] Cron. 42.31. Howbeit in the business of the Ambassadors of the Princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the Wonder that was done in the Land, God left him to •ry him, that he might know all that was in his Heart. Thus is God fain for to humble his Children, to teach them Dependence; and to put them in •ind that th•y do not stand by their own strength.
4ly; We see here the Saints miscarry when God withdraweth his supporting Grace but in part; as Peter, David. Peter was in the state of Grace, and Christ prayed that his Faith might not utterly fail; y•t when God did not est•blish him, you see what Sins he was guilty of in that combat: David was a Man after God's own Heart, but how did he fall when God upheld him not? Psal. 51. Hezekiah, 〈…〉 Cron. 42.31. Howbeit in the business of the Ambassadors of the Princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the Wonder that was done in the Land, God left him to •ry him, that he might know all that was in his Heart. Thus is God fain for to humble his Children, to teach them Depend•nce; and to put them in •ind that th•y do not stand by their own strength.