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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. It is meant of the Efficacy of his Gospel, as it is accompanied by his Spirit, called the Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6.17. and it is said to be quick and powerful, Heb. •.12. and Rev. 2.16. Repent, or I will come against thee quickly, and smite thee with the Sword of my mouth; by this word he shall confound the falsehood and cunning practices which are carried on under this my••••y of Iniquity, and give it such a deadly and incurable wound, that it shall languish before it be utterly destroyed.
2. It is meant of the Efficacy of his Gospel, as it is accompanied by his Spirit, called the Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6.17. and it is said to be quick and powerful, Heb. •.12. and Rev. 2.16. Repent, or I will come against thee quickly, and smite thee with the Sword of my mouth; by this word he shall confound the falshood and cunning practices which are carried on under this my••••y of Iniquity, and give it such a deadly and incurable wound, that it shall languish before it be utterly destroyed.
Doct. That Antichrists Destruction is by the preaching of the Gospel, and the victorious evidence of Truth. It must needs be so; For his Kingdom and Tyranny is upheld by ⟨p. 149⟩Darkness, which is dispelled by the Light of the Truth: And therefore the Papists, as all other Heretics, are lucifugae Scripturarum Dei, cannot endure the Scriptures, deny them to the people, and seek to make them contemptible by all the means they can. Again, his Kingdom is carried on by Falsehood, and his Cheats, and Impostures, and Wickedness, and Usurpation, and false Interpretations and Delusions are discovered by the truth and simplicity of the Gospel, and so is consumed yet more and more. Lastly, Popery is a dead form of Religion, and there is not only Truth in the word of God, but Life; we are not only enlightened, but quickened by it, and converted to God, and made partakers of his Spirit; And these will go against their own experience and inclination, if they should sit down with such empty, beggarly Rudiments.