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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. That which is called God, that is Magistrates, Princes, and Kings, Psal. 81.1. He judgeth among the Gods, and verse the sixth, I have said ye are Gods, all of you are Children of the most high: and Joh: 10.34, 35. It is written in your Law, I said ye are Gods. If he call them Gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, &c. God hath clothed Magistrates with his own honour, so far, that he hath put his name upon them: and their eminency is a part of his Image, as it lieth in Superiority, Dominion, and Power. Though Magistrates be but like their Brethren, as to their common nature, yet in respect of their Office, they have the glorious Title of [Gods] conferred upon them, as being his Vicegerents, and bearing his person in Government, they are honoured with his name. So that without impeachment of Blasphemy, those that excel in the Civil power ⟨p. 87⟩may be called Gods. Now over these Antichrist exalteth himself, that is, above all Kings and Potentates.
1. That which is called God, that is Magistrates, Princes, and Kings, Psal. 81.1. He judgeth among the Gods, and verse the sixth, I have said ye are Gods, all of you are Children of the most high: and Joh: 10.34, 35. It is written in your Law, I said ye are Gods. If he call them Gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, &c. God hath cloathed Magistrates with his own honour, so far, that he hath put his name upon them: and their eminency is a part of his Image, as it lyeth in Superiority, Dominion, and Power. Though Magistrates be but like their Brethren, as to their common nature, yet in respect of their Office, they have the glorious Title of [Gods] conferred upon them, as being his Vicegerents, and bearing his person in Government, they are honoured with his name. So that without impeachment of Blasphemy, those that excel in the Civil power ⟨p. 87⟩may be called Gods. Now over these Antichrist exalteth himself, that is, above all Kings and Potentates.