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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. For t•• usurpation it self, he sitteth as God in the Temple of God. By the Temple of God, is meant the Church, 1 Cor. 3.16, 17. Know ye not, that ye are the Temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you: if any man defile the Temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are. So 2 Cor. 6.16. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? for ye are the Temple of the living God. The external visible Church which professeth the Faith of Christ, and beareth his name. So that the place wherein Antichrist shall arise, is the visible Christian Church: not Rome Ethnic, but Christian.
1. For t•• usurpation it self, he sitteth as God in the Temple of God. By the Temple of God, is meant the Church, 1 Cor. 3.16, 17. Know ye not, that ye are the Temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you: if any man defile the Temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are. So 2 Cor. 6.16. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? for ye are the Temple of the living God. The external visible Church which professeth the Faith of Christ, and beareth his name. So that the place wherein Antichrist shall arise, is the visible Christian Church: not Rome Ethnick, but Christian.
But is then the Church of Rome, the Church of Christ? Answ. It was one part of it before it was perverted; it usurpeth still that name, it retaineth some relic of a Church ⟨p. 89⟩mangled as it is: (saith Calvin in his Epistles) I think I have given some strong reasons, that it yet retaineth some show of a Church. Now in this Temple of God he sitteth as an Officer and Bishop there, as I before explained it: And whereas other Princes are said to Reign so many years, the Pope is said to sit so long. It's his Sedes, his Cathedral or Seat. And again, here he is said to sit as God, that is, as God Incarnate: for Christ is the true and proper Lord of the Church. None should Reign there but he. And the name of this Man of sin is not Antitheos, but [Greek or Hebrew], not one that directly invadeth the properties of the supreme God, but of God Incarnate, or Christ as Mediator: he sitteth negatively, not as a Minister, but positively as supreme Lord upon Earth, whom all must adore and worship; and Kings and Princes kiss his feet. In short, he usurpeth the Authority due to Christ. Now I shall prove that by a double argument.