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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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4. When there is gross negligence, or not taking pains to know better. It is equivalent to reluctation, or standing out against light, Crassa negligentia dolus est; there is a deceit in laziness or affected ignorance, Joh. 3.20. They will not come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved: 2 Pet. 3.5. They are willingly ignorant. Those that please themselves in the ignorance of any truth, err not only in their minds, but their hearts. It is the duty of Gods people to understand what is his will, Eph. 5.7. Be not unwise but understanding what the will of ⟨p. 232⟩the Lord is. And it is their practice. Rom. 12.2. That ye may prove, what is the good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God: Psal. 1.2. His delight is in the law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate day and night. We should be searching still. But when men will not know what they have a mind to hate, it argueth a secret sore, and suspicion of the truth, and are loth to follow it too close, lest it cross their lusts and interests.
3. That the way and errors of Popery are damnable, and it is very unsafe living in that Society and Combination. I prove it. 1. Because they live in wilful disobedience to God: They violate the manifest Commandments of God, while they hold it lawful to worship Pictures and Images, to make Pictures of the Trinity, to invocate Saints and Angels, to deny Lay-men the Cup in the Sacrament, to adore the Sacrament, to prohibit certain Orders of Men and Women to marry, to Celebrate the public service in a language which ordinarily men and women that assist understand not: In all these things they offer apparent violence to Gods Precepts. And that their whole worship is polluted with a gross Superstition; as for instance, to worship Images is expressly against Gods word,