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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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2. Let us not put off the time, and set it at too great a distance; distant things, though never so great, will hardly move us; that which men put off they do in effect put away; they put far off the evil day, they would not let it come near their minds, to have any operation upon them. Look as the Stars, those vast Globes of Light, by reason of the distance between us and them, do seem but as so many spangles: so we have but a weak sight of what is set at a great distance, and their operation ⟨p. 34⟩on us will be but small; the closer things are, the more they will work upon us; one that looks upon what God hath revealed of this as sure, and near, is more affected with it than others are: therefore set your selves at the entrance of that World, where you must everlastingly be, and watch, and be ready: they that put it off, are apt to loiter in their work. If Christs coming be not near at hand, certainly the time of our departure is at hand, and it will not be long ere it come about. But this is but Introductive to the Doctrine of Anti-Christ: Therefore I come to the second thing.
2. Let us not put off the time, and set it at too great a distance; distant things, though never so great, will hardly move us; that which men put off they do in effect put away; they put far off the evil day, they would not let it come near their minds, to have any operation upon them. Look as the Stars, those vast Globes of Light, by reason of the distance between us and them, do seem but as so many spangles: so we have but a weak sight of what is set at a great distance, and their operation ⟨p. 34⟩on us will be but small; the closer things are, the more they will work upon us; one that looks upon what God hath revealed of this as sure, and near, is more affected with it than others are: therefore set your selves at the entrance of that World, where you must everlastingly be, and watch, and be ready: they that put it off, are apt to loyter in their work. If Christs coming be not near at hand, certainly the time of our departure is at hand, and it will not be long e're it come about. But this is but Introductive to the Doctrine of Anti-Christ: Therefore I come to the second thing.