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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51839	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 ...	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1679 (1679)	Wing M522; ESTC R7577	216,743	470

mind Rom. 14.5 Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind 2. If hardned in error consider your opinions will ordinarily have an influence upon your whole Religion and will pervert your carriage towards God and Men your Prayers will smell of your opinions and be like Balaams Sacrifice offered to God to engage him against his own people your Love will be dispensed according to the interests of your Faction 1 Cor. 1.13 Every one of you saith I am of Paul and I of Apollo and I of Cephas and I of Christ. Is Christ divided 3. The danger of error to others Vice is like a duel error a War 2 Tim. 2.17 Their word will eat as doth a Canker All in Asia have turned from me 2 Tim. 1.15 4. There is danger to your selves though the error be not damnable 1 Cor. 3.13 You have not so full Communion with God Thirdly The third thing is the means which these Impostors used to seduce them from the Faith Spirit Word Letter by all which the Apostle would not have them troubled and shaken in mind none of these Engines which the Seducers used should draw them from the Truth What should poor Christians do thus assaulted Ans. Stick to the Apostolical Doctrine I shall observe Doct. That a Christian should be so perswaded in Religion that neither Spirit nor Word nor Writing should be able to shake or unsettle his mind I shall shew you 1. What wayes or what means God hath appointed whereby a man may settle his choice as to opinions in Religion That the word of God will sufficiently fortifie him against all these false ways by which Error is wont to be insinuated 1. For the first if a Christian would be established and guided aright in the choice of a Religion he must follow both the light of Nature and Scripture 1. The light of Nature antecedently to any external Revelation will sufficiently convince us of the being of God and our dependance upon him Rom. 1.19 20. That which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it to them For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made even his eternal Power and Godhead For I must know there is a God or else I cannot be certain that he hath given us a Rule or Revelation of his mind We begin with what is natural and then go on to what is Spiritual Nature will tell us that there is one God the first cause of all things of infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness that it is reasonable he should be served by those whom he hath made that he will reward and punish men as they disobey or serve and please him but how God will be served how they shall be rewarded or punished or how they shall escape punishment if after a breach they are willing to return to their duty and obedience to him this is revealed in the word of God 2. The written word shews us the true way of worshipping and pleasing God and being accepted with him therefore it is a sufficient direction to us there is enough to satisfie Conscience though not to please wanton Curiosity As that may quench the thirst of a sober man that will not satisfie the lust of a Drunkard there we are made wise unto Salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 Thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation and Psalm 119.105 Thy word is a light unto my feet and a lanthorn to my paths there we have the knowledge of many things evident by the light of nature discovered with more clearness and certainty And that which could not be found out by natural light as Salvation by a Redeemer or the remedy of our lapsed Estate which depending on the sole will and good pleasure of God could not be known till it was manifested and revealed by him when man sat in darkness and in the shadow of death it was necessary that God should some way or other reveal his mind to him by word of mouth or by writing By word of mouth that is either by Oracles or extraordinary Messengers that sufficed while God saw fit to reveal but a few Truths or such as did not much burden the Memory and men were long lived and the Church confined within a small compass of ground and not liable to so many miseries and changes as now in the latter Ages and then he put it into writing that men may not obtrude upon us their own conceits but we might have a Standard or Rule of Faith and Manners Gal. 6.16 As many as walk according to this Rule c. 3. The natural Truths contained in the word of God are evident by their own light The supernatural Truths though they are above natural light yet they are not against it or contrary to it and do fairly accord with those Principles which are naturally known and are confirmed partly by an antecedent Testimony which is Prophecy partly by an innate evidence in their own frame and contexture partly by a subsequent Evidence which is valuable Testimony as to matter of Fact The antecedent Testimony John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me 2 Pet. 1.19 We have a more sure word of Prophecy to which we do well to give heed as to a light shining in dark places The innate and concomitant evidence 2 Cor. 4 2 3 4. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God For if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this World hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them The subsequent Testimony the Apostles Acts 5. 32. We are witnesses of these things and so is also the Holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him they were Eye and Ear Witnesses of great Fidelity and Credit their Religion forbiddeth them to lie for God and they were accompanied with the mighty power of the Holy Ghost not only in giving them success in the face of the learned World hunting out the Devil every where but also by Miracles divers Signs and Wonders and they and their followers endured all manner of torments and death to witness the truth of these things and transmitted them to us with assurance of Gods owning th●s Doctrine 4. The word being thus stated and put into a sure Record it is intelligible enough in all necessary matters at least for if God should speak or write darkly to his people especially in necessary things it is because he could not or would not speak otherwise the former is direct Blasphemy Exod. 4.11 Who hath made