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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.
5. The Miracles wrought by Antichrist and his Adherents, are mira, but not miracula, some wonderful things, but no true and proper Miracles, else, as Austin faith, figmenta mendacium hominum, portenta fallacium spirituum, either the fictions of lying men, or the illusions of deceiving Spirits; many times the matter of fact is not true, at other times the thing ⟨p. 175⟩done is but some illusion of the senses by the Devil; or something taken for a Miracle, which doth not exceed the power of nature; either way it is an Imposture: and indeed the Miracles of the Legends are so false, so ridiculous, so light and trivial, that they expose Christianity to contempt; or else if there •e any thing in it, it giveth suspicions of magical illusion and converse with the Devil, which among their Votaries and Recluses, is no unusual thing.
6. There are seven points in Popery, which they seek to confirm by Miracles, and which being senseless in themselves do most scandalize Protestants.
1. Pilgrimages, they show the Shrine, and also the Chamber of the House of the Blessed Virgin: how the Virgin at Loretto was transported out of Galilee into Dalmatia, and by Angels in the Air to the remote parts of Italy, and settled there after some removes.
1. Pilgrimages, they show the Shrine, and also the Chamber of the House of the Blessed Virgin: how the Virgin at Loretto was transported out of Galilee into Dalmatia, and by Angels in the Air to the remote parts of Italy, and setled there after some removes.