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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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4. Where there is a lessening of the merits of Christ, and his satisfaction, as if it were not sufficient for the expiation of sin, without penal satisfactions of our own; there is the mystery of Iniquity: for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified, Heb. 10.14.
5. Where the new nature is little thought of, and all Religion is made to consist in some ⟨p. 122⟩external Rites and Adorations, or indifferences, there the reducing of man to God is much hindered, and Christianity is adulterated, and the Religion that designedly countenanceth these things, is but the mystery of Iniquity. To worship God as the Papists do, with Images, Agnus Dei's Crucifixes▪ Crossings, Spittle, Oil, Candles, Holy Water, kissing the Pax, dropping Beads, praying to the Virgin Mary, and other Saints, repeating over the name Jesus five times in a breath, repeating such and such Sentences so often, praying to God in an unknown Tongue, and saying to him, they know not what; adoring the consecrated bread as no bread, but the very flesh of Christ himself; fasting by feasting upon fish instead of flesh; choosing a tutelary Saint, whose name they will invocate; offering Sacrifices for quick and dead, praying for Souls in Purgatory, purchasing Indulgences for their deliverance, carrying the Bones and other Relics of Saints, going in Pilgrimage to Shrines or Images, or offering before them; with a multitude more of such trashy devotions, whereby they greatly dishonour God and obstruct the motions of the Heavenly Life, yea, quite kill it: For instead of the power and life of grace, there are introduced beggarly Rudiments, or ritual observances in indifferent things, and vain traditions by which Christian liberty is restrained, and these pressed with as much severity as unquestionable duties, established by ⟨p. 123⟩Gods known law, for the renewing and reforming Mankind. We are to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage,