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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.
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.
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 relique 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 shew 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not one that directly invadeth the properties of the supreme God, but of God Incarnate, or Christ as Mediatour: 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.