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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. Let us speak of the general Apostasy, that must be before Christs coming to Judgment. Except there come a falling away first.
Now concerning it, take these Propositions.
1. That Apostasy is any defection from him to whom we owe, and have performed subjection: or a falling from that Lord to whom we owe fealty. I am sure in religious matters, it importeth a defection from our right and proper Lord: Thus the Devil is an Apostate, because he abode not in his first estate▪ Jude 6. And the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting Chains, &c. Abode not in the truth, John. 8.44. Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do: He was a Murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth. That is, forsook his obedience to God, and so became the Ring-Leader of all rebellious Creatures. So it is true of our first Parents: They were Apostates, they did revolt from God, and their obedience to him: Therefore it is said, Rom. 5.19. By one mans disobedience many were made Sinners. So of their Posterity, their Apostasy is described by turning back from following the Lord, Zeph. 1.6. and departing from God, that is, his worship and service, Isa. 59.13. In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God. Let us then be agreed of this notion of Apostasy, which is evident, that it is a falling off from the obedience which we owe to our rightful Lord.