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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.
WE have described unto you the head of the Antichristian State; we come now to the Subjects, especially the zealous Abettors and Promoters of this Kingdom. They are described, (1.) By the means how they are drawn into this Apostasy and defection: [Greek or Hebrew]. Secondly, By their doom or misery, they are in a state of perdition, in them that perish. Thirdly, By their sin, which is the cause and reason of •his doom▪ because they received not the•love of the truth that they might be saved.
WE have described unto you the head of the Antichristian State; we come now to the Subjects, especially the zealous Abettors and Promoters of this Kingdom. They are described, (1.) By the means how they are drawn into this Apostasie and defection: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Secondly, By their doom or misery, they are in a state of perdition, in them that perish. Thirdly, By their sin, which is the cause and reason of •his doom▪ because they received not the•love of the truth that they might be saved.
1. The means, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. That Antichrist shall be a deceiver, and that he deceiveth by lying Miracles, we have seen already, and is foretold, Rev. 13.14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he ⟨p. 179⟩had power to do in the sight of the beast, &c. but the deceived are not altogether guiltless, for the fraud would soon be discovered by an holy and pure Soul: His great engine is either the baits of lust and sin, which work on none but those that have pleasure in unrighteousness; verse 12. the generality of wicked and carnal Christians, are easily drawn from Gods pure worship, and true Godliness: or by Worldly means, either by the offers of preferment, riches, dignities, or else terrors of the flesh. Now none catch at these worldly baits but whose eyes the God of this World hath blinded,