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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.
2. Caution, Antichrist is consumed, but he ⟨p. 144⟩is not yet dead; what strength he may recover before his last destruction, God knoweth. Popery, after it was cast out, hath re-entered Bohemia and Austria, and the Emperors Hereditary Countries, and what havoc hath been made of the Evangelical Churches, the Book of Caraffa, the Bishop and Legate of the Pope, called Germania sacra restaurata, showeth, wherein many notable things concerning their Artifices, to replant Popery, are set down. As to England, some hope his Consumption is not desperate, and many fear, that Popery may recover again, unless God in mercy prevent it: we know not what is in the Womb of Providence, or how far the Prerogative of Free Grace may interpose in our behalf, whether England shall be made a Theatre of mercy once more, or the feat of Idolatry and superstition and Blood: But though we do not know what God hath determined, yet we may soon know what England hath deserved; And that is enough to quicken us to watchfulness and Prayer, and expectation, and serious preparation for the day of evil: and by these things, if it cometh to pass, it will do us no harm.
2. Caution, Antichrist is consumed, but he ⟨p. 144⟩is not yet dead; what strength he may recover before his last destruction, God knoweth. Popery, after it was cast out, hath re-entered Bohemia and Austria, and the Emperours Hereditary Countries, and what havock hath been made of the Evangelical Churches, the Book of Caraffa, the Bishop and Legat of the Pope, called Germania sacra restaurata, sheweth, wherein many notable things concerning their Artifices, to replant Popery, are set down. As to England, some hope his Consumption is not desperate, and many fear, that Popery may recover again, unless God in mercy prevent it: we know not what is in the Womb of Providence, or how far the Prerogative of Free Grace may interpose in our behalf, whether England shall be made a Theater of mercy once more, or the feat of Idolatry and superstition and Blood: But though we do not know what God hath determined, yet we may soon know what England hath deserved; And that is enough to quicken us to watchfulness and Prayer, and expectation, and serious preparation for the day of evil: and by these things, if it cometh to pass, it will do us no harm.