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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.
The Godly Christian, and the Carnal Christian, have the same Bible, the same Creed, the same Baptism, yet they hate one another as if they were of different Religions, and confound the distinction between the World and the Church, because the World is in the Church. And of sensual and godless men, we must speak as Heathens, as if they were without God, they abhor that Religion which they do profess. That is, they abhor ⟨p. 197⟩not the name, but they abhor those that are faithful to it, and serious in it: who desire to know God in Christ, and desire to love him, and live to him. It was that Christ taxed in the Pharisees, they honoured the dead Saints, and abhorred the living, Matth. 23.29, 30, 31. Woe unto you, Scribes, and Pharisees, Hypocrites, because ye build the Tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous, and say, if we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them, in the blood of the Prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves, that ye are the Children of them which killed the Prophets. Christ hath not worse Enemies in the World, than those that usurp his name, and pretend to be his Officers, and yet eat and drink with the drunken, and beat their fellow Servants, Matth. 24.49. Christ will disown such at the day of Judgment, Matth. 7.22, 23. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out Devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works, and then will I profess unto them I never knew you? Depart from me ye that work iniquity. And such do most dishonour him in the World. A righteous, sober, godly life, is the best evidence of our love to the truth.
The Godly Christian, and the Carnal Christian, have the same Bible, the same Creed, the same Baptism, yet they hate one another as if they were of different Religions, and confound the distinction between the World and the Church, because the World is in the Church. And of sensual and godless men, we must speak as Heathens, as if they were without God, they abhor that Religion which they do profess. That is, they abhor ⟨p. 197⟩