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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.
2 Thess. 2.4. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped: So that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God showing himself that he is God.
2 Thess. 2.4. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped: So that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God.
IN this matter of Antichrist, we have made this progress. First, that he arose upon and by a falling away, from the ancient pure state of Christianity. Secondly, That the Holy Ghost points him out by his names and Titles, which are two, the man of Sin, wherein he is resembled to Antiochus, and the Son of Perdition, wherein he is resembled to Judas. As Antiochus he is one, that by force and power should change the Laws and Ordinances, and compel men to his abominations. As Judas he should betray Christ by a Kiss, for Worldly gain, and be one that is in pretence an Apostle, but indeed a real Adversary to Christ. Now after the Apostle had pointed at him, by his names and Titles, he describeth him by his practices, wherein his names and titles are verified; for here he proveth, that ⟨p. 81⟩he should be as Antiochus, by his exalting himself above all that is called God, which is said of Antiochus, Dan. 11.36. And the King shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt and magnify himself above every God, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods. And as Judas, one sitting in the Temple of God, that is, he sitteth there as exercising a public Ecclesiastical Office; yea, challenging the highest Seat in it. He sitteth there Potestate Regiminis, by the power of his Government; he doth Chathedratica potestat• praesidere (Estius.) His sitting there as chief, shows him as Judas; his sitting here as God, and exalting himself above all that is called God, showeth him Antiochus.