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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. Legislation 2. Judgment
1. Legislation: It is the peculiar and incommunicable property of Christ, to be Lord and Lawgiver to the Church, Isa. 33.22. The Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver; the Lord is our King, he will save us. God alone hath such interest in his people, as to prescribe supreme or universal Laws to them, and we are his Subjects, Jam. 4.12. There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Now whosoever will make Laws, that shall immediately bind the Conscience, they invade Christs Sovereignty. This is spiritual Tyranny, and the worst sort of Tyranny, to arrogate a power over the subjects of Christ, and their Consciences, as Lord of their faith. He that taketh upon him to rescind and make void his Institutions and Ordinances, and set his own in their place, and give that reverence and honour to them which only belongeth to the Ordinances of Christ, He is Antichrist, whatever he be.
1. Legislation: It is the peculiar and incommunicable property of Christ, to be Lord and Lawgiver to the Church, Isa. 33.22. The Lord is our Iudge, The Lord is our Lawgiver; the Lord is our King, he will save us. God alone hath such interest in his people, as to prescribe supreme or universal Laws to them, and we are his Subjects, Jam. 4.12. There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Now whosoever will make Laws, that shall immediately bind the Conscience, they invade Christs Soveraignty. This is spiritual Tyranny, and the worst sort of Tyranny, to arrogate a power over the subjects of Christ, and their Consciences, as Lord of their faith. He that taketh upon him to rescind and make void his Institutions and Ordinances, and set his own in their place, and give that reverence and honour to them which only belongeth to the Ordinances of Christ, He is Antichrist, whatever he be.