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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
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(2.) The next circumstance is the Time, when the impediment is taken away, when the Roman Empire is so weakened and removed from Rome, that this Power may grow up, and that was when the Roman Empire was divided into ten Kingdoms, as Tertullian saith, and is agreeable enough with the Prophecy of St John, Rev. 17.12. And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten Kings, which have not received their Kingdoms as yet, but receive power as Kings one hour with the Beast; that is, near that time when the Roman Empire ⟨p. 114⟩was broken and divided, which began near 600. years after Christs Birth.
(2.) The next circumstance is the Time, when the impediment is taken away, when the Roman Empire is so weakened and removed from Rome, that this Power may grow up, and that was when the Roman Empire was divided into ten Kingdoms, as Tertullian saith, and is agreeable enough with the Prophecy of St Iohn, Rev. 17.12. And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten Kings, which have not received their Kingdoms as yet, but receive power as Kings one hour with the Beast; that is, near that time when the Roman Empire ⟨p. 114⟩was broken and divided, which began near 600. years after Christs Birth.
II. The next Observation is, that though he was not revealed in the Apostles days, yet the mystery of Iniquity did begin to work, but secretly; for it is said, v. 7. beginning, The mystery of iniquity doth already work. This is given as a reason why it would break out sooner, but it was kept back, there •as something a brewing, that would make way for Antichrist; some disposition of the matter, some propensity thereunto, something begun, which would afterwards show it self more eminently in the great Antichrist.