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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 what was this Impediment? The Ancients generally determined it to be the Roman Empire; for so Tertullian, The Empire of Rome, which was to be divided into ten Kingdoms; and reason showeth it, because the Man of sin could not rise to his Greatness as long as the Roman Empire stood; why? because he that was to exalt himself above all that is called God, and above all that is August, could not bring his designs to pass, as long as the Roman Empire retained its Majesty; but when once that was eclipsed and removed, then he was to be revealed is his time; all things have their time, and so the man of sin. Well then, it was the Roman Empire that stays the manifestation of Antichrist, he being to build his Tyranny on the ruins and wrack thereof; and therefore the Primitive Christians prayed, pro morâ finis, that it would please God to defer the fall of this Empire, fearing worse things upon the dissolution thereof.
But what was this Impediment? The Ancients generally determined it to be the Roman Empire; for so Tertullian, The Empire of Rome, which was to be divided into ten Kingdoms; and reason sheweth it, because the Man of sin could not rise to his Greatness as long as the Roman Empire s•ood; why? because he that was to exalt himself above all that is called God, and above all that is August, could not bring his designs to pass, as long as the Roman Empire retained its Majesty; but when once that was eclipsed and removed, then he was to be revealed is his time; all things have their time, and so the man of sin. Well then, it was the Roman Empire that stays the manifestation of Antichrist, he being to build his Tyranny on the ruins and wrack thereof; and therefore the Primitive Christians prayed, pro morâ finis, that it would please God to defer the fall of this Empire, fearing worse things upon the dissolution thereof.
Now this impediment showeth both the Time and Place of Antichrist; and Time and Place, next to the nature and state of things, are the best circumstances to discover him. (1.) The Place, Antichrists Seat and Throne ⟨p. 113⟩was to be there, where the Seat of the Roman Empire was; and St John telleth us, it was situated on the City that had seven Hills,