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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
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2. If you would defend your selves, and wound the Enemy, be much acquainted with the word of God, which is the Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6.17. thereby you may ward off every blow of a Temptation. Surely then we should be much acquainted with this wo•d, that it may dwell in us richly, that we m•y have it ready, this is enough to make wise the simple for all necessary duties and defence.
3. Pray heartily, that the word of God may have a free course, 2 Thess. 3.1. and t•at God would send forth labourers into his Harvest, Matth. 9.38.
2. The final destruction of Antichrist, and destroy him by the brightness of his coming. This coming is most likely to be the coming of Christ, so often mentioned, 2 Thess. 1.7, 8. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty Angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thess. 2.1, 2, 3. Now we beseech you Brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither by spirit, not by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Others conceive some notable manifestation of his Presence and Power in his Church; but this would engage us in many dark Prophecies, which I shall not meddle withal (intending only a doctrinal discovery of Antichrist) as how long before his coming, by what means: Sure I am, that at his coming, the Beast and false Prophet shall be slain, and cast into the lake of fire,