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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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3. A third Error that I shall instance in is, that man may supererogate, not only merit for himself, but lay in an overplus to increase the treasure of the Church; when the Scripture telleth us that our best works are imperfect, yea polluted; and our Lord himself hath told us, that when we have done all, say ye we are unprofitable Servants, Luke 17.10. But what will not men believe, that can believe these things? There are other absurdities as gross as these, but this sufficeth for a taste.
3. A third Error that I shall instance in is, that man may supererogate, not only merit for himself, but lay in an overplus to encrease the treasure of the Church; when the Scripture telleth us that our best works are imperfect, yea polluted; and our Lord himself hath told us, that when we have done all, say ye we are unprofitable Servants, Luke 17.10. But what will not men believe, that can believe these things? There are other absurdities as gross as these, but this sufficeth for a tast.
2. The obstinacy wherewith they cleave to them: Nothing will reclaim them; not Scripture, nor reason, nor evidence of truth, but they still cry the opinion of the Church, and the Faith of their Forefathers, and will invent any paltry shift and distinction; rather recede from any thing than once admit that the Church hath erred. Like the obstinate Jews in Christs time, that denied apparent matter of fact, Joh. 8.33. We were never in bondage to any man, though they were in Egypt and Babylon, and were now under servitude, ⟨p. 214⟩and the power of the Romans. Though we prove they have erred and do err still, the Church cannot err; or rather like the Elder Jews in the Prophet Jeremiahs time,