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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. That though he was not then revealed, yet that mystery of iniquity did begin to work, but secretly.
3. That when that impediment shall be removed, then Antichrist shall be revealed.
First, I begin with his putting them in mind of what he had told them before by word of mouth, Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things. This showeth the certainty and usefulness of this Doctrine; for though the event were not to be accomplished in their days, yet he taught them before when present, and now repeateth it again when absent; he preached it in private, and now writeth it for public good, and laboureth to confirm the truth of it, and fasten it upon their memories.
First, I begin with his putting them in mind of what he had told them before by word of mouth, Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things. This sheweth the certainty and usefulness of this Doctrine; for though the event were not to be accomplished in their days, yet he taught them before when present, and now repeateth it again when absent; he preached it in private, and now writeth it for publick good, and laboureth to confirm the truth of it, and fasten it upon their memories.