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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.
Well then note three things for the time of Antichrist.
1. Before the obstacle was removed he could not appear. 2. When this obstacle was removed▪ presently he appeared. 3. The degrees of the falling of the one are the degrees of the exaltation and establishment of the other, for Antichrist did grow up upon it.
But they say, the Roman Empire is not ⟨p. 128⟩quite fallen, there being a Roman Emperor still. But (1.) The present Empire is but inane nomen, or umbra Imperii; a mere name, or shadow of the Empire. (2.) He that then letted in St Pauls time, was the succession of the Roman Emperors, but this is the German Empire; now if the Roman Empire were the only impediment (the Apostle useth t•e word [Greek or Hebrew]) therefore as soon as that should be removed, Antichrist would infallibly be revealed. (3.) Though this Empire be not abolished, but removed out of Rome, it is enough to make good Pauls Prophecy, Dixit Apostolus, Imperium esse de medio tollendum, non prorsus delendum: Whitaker. Well then, since the Seat is left void, either the Prophecy is not accomplished at the time, or else the Pope is Antichrist; for the Nations are long since fallen away from the Roman Empire, and the Emperor hath no power nor Authority at Rome.
But they say, the Roman Empire is not ⟨p. 128⟩quite fallen, there being a Roman Emperour still. But (1.) The present Empire is but inane nomen, or umbra Imperii; a meer name, or shadow of the Empire. (2.) He that then letted in St Pauls time, was the sucession of the Roman Emperours, but this is the German Empire; now if the Roman Empire were the only impediment (the Apostle useth te word ) therefore as soon as that should be removed, Antichrist would infallibly be revealed. (3.) Though this Empire be not abolished, but removed out of Rome, it is enough to make good Pauls Prophecy, Dixit Apostolus, Imperium esse de medio tollendum, non prorsus delendum: Whitaker. Well then, since the Seat is left void, either the Prophecy is not accomplished at the time, or else the Pope is Antichrist; for the Nations are long since fallen away from the Roman Empire, and the Emperour hath no power nor Authority at Rome.