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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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4. Judas was a guide to them t•at came to take Christ; and one main work of Antichrist is, to be a Ring-Leader in persecuting for Religion. Christ is in Heaven, death hath no more power over him: his natural body is above abuse, but his mystical body still suffereth: Acts 9.6. Why persecutest •hou me? Antichrist is the head of the persecuting State, others are his Emissaries and Agents, to take Christ in his members. It is a politic Religion, that must be carried on with Worldly Artifices, with power and Cruelty.
4. Iudas was a guide to them t•at came to take Christ; and one main work of Antichrist is, to be a Ring-Leader in persecuting for Religion. Christ is in Heaven, death hath no more power over him: his natural body is above abuse, but his mystical body still suffereth: Acts 9.6. Why persecutest •hou me? Antichrist is the head of the persecuting State, others are his Emissaries and Agents, to take Christ in his members. It is a politick Religion, that must be carried on with Worldly Artifices, with power and Cruelty.
Lastly, The Covetousness of Judas is set forth. He was a thief, and one that carried the bag, Joh. 12.6. England to its bitter cost knoweth the poling exactions of the Papacy: All its dealing with us was to fill the Bag, out of this Puteus inexhaustus. Now all these things should open our Eyes; we may behold the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition; one egg is not more like to another, than Judas and Antichrist.
Lastly, The Covetousness of Iudas is set forth. He was a thief, and one that carried the bag,