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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 Ambition of the Pastors themselves, and the spirit of contention for rule and precedency, Acts 20.29, 30. There shall arise among you ravening Wolves, speaking perverse things, to draw Disciples after them; and within a little time began to affect not only a primacy of Order, but of Jurisdiction, and Authority; so that then Antichrist did not exist in his proper person, but in Spirit and Predecessors.
3. The errors then set afoot, corrupted the simplicity of the Gospel; 1 John 2.18. Now there are many Antichrists, 1 John 4.3. Every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God, and this is the Spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard it should come, and even now already is it in the World: The Spirit of Antichrist is even now in the World; there was a Spirit then working in the Church to introduce this mystery of Iniquity, only the Seat was not empty, but filled by another; the Seeds of this mystery were sown in ambition, avarice, haughtiness of teachers, and their carnal and corrupt Doctrines.
3. The errors then set afoot, corrupted the simplicity of the Gospel; 1 John 2.18. Now there are many Antichrists, 1 John 4.3. Every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God, and this is the Spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard it should come, and even now already is it in the World: The Spirit of Antichrist is even now in the World; there was a Spirit then working in the Church to introduce this mystery of Iniquity, only the Seat was not empty, but filled by another; the Seeds of this mystery were sown in ambition, avarice, haughtiness of teachers, and their carnal and corrupt Doctrines.