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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.
3. The means.
1. Gods word, called his breath, or the spirit of his mouth. 2. The brightness of his coming, namely when he shall come to judge the World in the Glory of the Father.
First, Of the rising of Antichrist, and then shall that wicked be revealed.
1. The Title given to Antichrist, [Greek or Hebrew], that lawless one, or Son of Belial: it is the property of Antichrist to boast himself to be above all laws, and to be judged by no power upon earth; for therein he resembleth A•tiochus, of whom it is said, he shall do according to his own will, Dan. 11.36. Now if this b• one of his Characters, it will not be hard to find him out: for who is that infallible Judge, that taketh upon him to decide all Controversies, and judgeth all things, and is judged of no man? and whosoever doth but mutter against his Decrees and delusions; if a private person, he is to be destroyed with Fire and Sword; if a Prince, to be excommunicated, deposed, and his Subjects freed from all Allegiance to him? Who is he, that taketh upon him with Faculties, Licences, and Pardons, to dispense with the Law of God, and to allow open and notorious sins? Who is he that by his own Writers is said to be solutus omni lege humanâ, freed from all humane law (Hostiensis)