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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. By the several kinds of their Idolatry, they have more variety of objects of worship, than any Society of men that ever lived in the World. 1. Angels are Creatures, and that ⟨p. 237⟩they worship Angels themselves confess. They Consecrate Churches unto them, offer solemn Prayers unto them, and own the adoring them, though an Angel forbiddeth this Adoration, Rev. 19.10. And he said unto me, See, thou do it not, I am thy fellow Servant, &c. and St. Paul telleth us, that they that worship Angels, do not hold the head, Col. 1.18, 19. So that Angel-worship proveth to be a damnable error.
Secondly, The Adoration of Saints, to whom they give religious worship, and invoke them as helpers, and honour them with fastings, watchings, and prayers, as Suarez acknowledgeth, and yet God is express, that he will not give his glory to another, Isa. 42. 8. they are to be honoured indeed for imitation, but not adored for Religion.
The third object is the Virgin Mary, to whom they pray more than they do to God. In the Rosary there is this Prayer. Beata Maria, salva omnes qui te glorificant. And we beseech thee to hear us good Lady. That Address, Monstra, te esse Ma•rem, and one divided, inter ubera & vulnera, the Breasts of the Virgin, and wounds of Christ, as if the milk of the one were as sovereign and as precious as the blood of the other. It were endless to rake in this filthy puddle: how many Books are there concluded with Laus Deo, & Virgini Deiparae? That sometimes there is a more