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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.
1. Adoration of Images. Idolaters are usually represented as sottish, as Psal. 115.8. They that make them are like unto them (so) is every one that trusteth in them. He had described the senselessness of the Idols before; They have mouths, but they speak not: Eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not, &c. Now as Idols are senseless, so the Idolaters are brutish. That is, the makers, Worshippers, and Servers of them, as void of true Wisdom, as the Images are of sense and ⟨p. 212⟩motion, Isa. 44.18. They have not known, nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. There is a fatal obduration upon them all along there: their senselessness is set forth from ver. 9. to ver. 20. they that worship the work of their own hands, are themselves but stocks and stones, being blin•ed by the just Judgment of God. If it be said this is meant of the Idols of the Gentiles, not of the Images of God, and Christ, and Virgin Mary, and Saints: But God will not be worshipped by an Idol, and there is no difference between the Images of the Papists, and the Heathens, but only in the name.
1. Adoration of Images. Idolaters are usually represented as sottish, as Psal. 115.8. They that make them are like unto them (so) is every one that trusteth in them. He had described the senselesness of the Idols before; They have mouths, but they speak not: Eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not, &c. Now as Idols are senseless, so the Idolaters are bruitish. That is, the makers, Worshippers, and Servers of them, as void of true Wisdom, as the Images are of sense and ⟨p. 212⟩motion, Isa. 44.18. They have not known, nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes, that they c•nnot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. There is a fatal obduration upon them all along there: their senselesness is set forth from ver. 9. to ver. 20. they that worship the work of their own hands, are themselves but stocks and stones, being blined by the just Judgment of God. If it be said this is meant of the Idols of the Gentiles, not of the Images of God, and Christ, and Virgin Mary, and Saints: But God will not be worshipped by an Idol, and there is no difference between the Images of the Papists, and the Heathens, but only in the name.