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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. What is the mystery of Iniquity? I answer, the design of usurping Christs Kingdom, and his Dignities and Prerogatives over the Church, to countenance the Kingdom of Sin and Darkness, under the mask of Piety and Religion: surely it is something quite contrary to the Gospel, which is the mystery of Godliness, 1 Tim. 3.16. So that this mystery is such a course and State design, as doth frustrate the true end and purpose of the Gospel, and yet carried on under a pretence of advancing and promoting it. So that to state it we must consider, ⟨p. 115⟩1. The mystery of Godliness. 2. The mystery of Ungodliness or Iniquity.
1. What is the mystery of Iniquity? I answer, the design of usurping Christs Kingdom, and his Dignities and Prerogatives over the Church, to countenance the Kingdom of Sin and Darkness, under the mask of Piety and Religion: surely it is something quite contrary to the Gospel, which is the mystery of Godliness, 1 Tim. 3.16. So that this mystery is such a course and State design, as doth frustrate the true end and purpose of the Gospe•, and yet carried on under a pretence of advancing and promoting it. So that to state it we must consider, ⟨p. 115⟩1. The mystery of Godliness. 2. The mystery of Ungodliness or Iniquity.
1. The mystery of Godliness is known, by the ends of God by the Gospel; and the way he took to promote those ends.