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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.
for their end is to confirm the Popes Dominion and false Doctrine. The sum is this then, That many things are pretended, not really done, Impostures and Forgeries, not Miracles; other things done by Diabolical illusion, as there may be Apparitions, Visions, Spectres; for Satan will bestir himself to keep up the credit of his Ministers. Lastly, if we cannot otherwise disprove them, if they tend to false Doctrine and worship, they are to be rejected, whatever extraordinary appearance there be in them.
for their end is to confirm the Popes Dominion and false Doctrine. The sum is this then, That many things are pretended, not really done, Impostures and Forgeries, not Miracles; other things done by Diabolical illusion, as there may be Apparitions, Visions, Spectres; for Sathan will bestir himself to keep up the credit of his Ministers. Lastly, if we cannot otherwise disprove them, if they tend to false Doctrine and worship, they are to be rejected, whatever extraordinary appearance there be in them.
(2.) The other expression concerning the ⟨p. 158⟩means, is general; with all deceivableness of unrighteousness: which compriseth,
(2.) The other expression concerning the ⟨p. 158⟩means, is general; with all deceivableness of unrighteousness: which comprizeth,
(1.) Their Sophistical Reasoning from Antiquity, Universality, Unity, Infallibility, without coming to the intrinsic merits of the cuse, but condemning the truth rather by prejudice.