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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.
II. More particularly the ruin of Antichrist is set forth,
II. More particularly the ruine of Antichrist is set forth,
(1.) Partly by the manner of his fall; it is represented both as begun and finished; he shall be consumed, he shall be destroyed; the one noteth a lingering delay, the other an utter Perdition; that he shall be finally rooted out.
(1.) Partly by the manner of his fall; it is represented both as begun and finished; he shall be consumed, he shall be destroyed; the one noteth a lingring delay, the other an utter Perdition; that he shall be finally rooted out.
First consumed, to consume is to waste and melt away by little and little.
Doct. Antichrist is not presently to be destroyed, but to waste away by a lingering Consumption; as his rising was by little and little, so is his fall, he loseth his Authority in Christendom by degrees.