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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. It is a point very necessary, to admonish and warn the faithful, that they be not circumvented with these delusions, and be found in the opposite state to Christ Jesus, and the interests of his Kingdom. God hath blown his Trumpet, Rev. 18.5. Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues: God calleth his people out of spiritual Babylon, it is dangerous and unsafe being there; if we would escape Babylons punishments, we must escape her sins, not live in that Communion and Society, where there are such Temptations to Idolatry, and other detestable enormities. It ⟨p. 106⟩is disputable, whether the errors of Popery be damnable? or there be any possibility of Salvation in that Religion? some deny all possibility; others abating from the rigour of that opinion, assert a very great difficulty, 1 Cor. 3.13. Saved as by fire; if so much Christianity left as to save them, it is with much ado: But the question is not about our benefit, but our duty; not whether possibly we may be saved, but what is the way the Lord will have us to walk in; and if there were possibility, or probability of Salvation in the way, in the general, yet there is very little or none for them that live in a known sin, and especially in a sin of such a dangerous nature, as abetting an opposite faction to Christ, such as is that of Antichrist.
1. It is a point very necessary, to admonish and warn the faithful, that they be not circumvented with these delusions, and be found in the opposite state to Christ Jesus, and the interests of his Kingdom. God hath blown his Trumpet, Rev. 18.5. Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues: God calleth his people out of spiritual Babylon, it is dangerous and unsafe being there; if we would escape Babylons punishments, we must escape her sins, not live in that Communion and Society, where there are such Temptations to Idolatry, and other detestable enormities. It ⟨p. 106⟩