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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. The next thing ascribed to him is Error, so it is said, John 8.44. He abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a Liar, and the Father of it. He soon Apostatized from God and his way, and ever since is an Enemy of all Truth and Goodness; he turned from God, and is a deceiver of others: To our first Parents he called the Truth of God in Question, and was the inventor and beginner of all Errors, that have since fallen out in the World. Well then, where should his eminent Power and Residence be, but in that Society of professed Christians, where most errors and corruptions in Doctrine and Worship have been introduced, where they teach men to pray to, and for the Dead, to adore the Bread, and worship it with divine worship, and to worship Images, and to pray to God in a language which they understand not, and maim the Lords Supper, and profess ⟨p. 160⟩they can live perfectly without sin, and meritoriously, and supererogate besides, and lay up a Treasury of merits to redeem Souls from Purgatory, &c. There will be errors and mistakes in Religion, while men are men; but where there is a wilful opposing of evident Truths, and an obstinate refusing of all healing means, and men will abide in their Errors, rather than acknowledge that they have erred; surely they are governed by the influence of his Counsels, who abode not in the Truth, and seeketh what he can to hinder the prevalency of it in the World.
2. The next thing ascribed to him is Error, so it is said, John 8.44. He abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a Lyar, and the Father of it. He soon Apostatized from God and his way, and ever since is an Enemy of all Truth and Goodness; he turned from God, and is a deceiver of others: To our first Parents he called the Truth of God in Question, and was the inventor and beginner of all Errors, that have since fallen out in the World. Well then, where should his eminent Power and Residence be, but in that Society of professed Christians, where most errors and corruptions in Doctrine and Worship have been introduced, where they teach men to pray to, and for the Dead, to adore the Bread, and worship it with divine worship, and to worship Images, and to pray to God in a language which they understand not, and maime the Lords Supper, and profess