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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.
5. It did but engender strife among Christians, begat wranglings and disputes in the Church, 1 Tim. 6.4. He is proud knowing nothing, but doting [or sick] about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmisings.
5. It did but ingender strife among Christians, begat wranglings and disputes in the Church, 1 Tim. 6.4. He is proud knowing nothing, but doting [or sick] about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmisings.
Use 1. Let us not fix times: many of the Ancients were too bold this way, and we are apt to it. Lactantius peremptorily said, The World would endure but two hundred years after his time: So, many will fix the time of the calling the Jews, and of the destruction of Anti-Christ, without evident grounds and reasons. What God hath revealed is enough to bear us out in our duty and suffering: in other things let us patiently wait; we see reason to do so, when we consider how many men have proved false Prophets.
Vse 1. Let us not fix times: many of the Antients were too bold this way, and we are apt to it. Lactantius peremptorily said, The World would endure but two hundred years after his time: So, many will fix the time of the calling the Jews, and of the destruction of Anti-Christ, without evident grounds and reasons. What God hath revealed is enough to bear us out in our duty and suffering: in other things let us patiently wait; we see reason to do so, when we consider how many men have proved false Prophets.