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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.
Fourthly, Adoration of Images; This is more foul than all the former, because directed to a more gross object. This is prophesied of Antichrist, that he and his Abettors, they shall worship Idols of Silver, and Gold, and Brass, and Wood and Stone, Rev. 9.20. Now tell a Papist of this, and they say, they do not terminate their worship in the Image, but in the party whom it representeth, the same said the Pagan. Non Lapidem sed Jovem in Lapide, Julian the Apostate. But God hath forbidden bowing to, or before an Image.
Fourthly, Adoration of Images; This is more foul than all the former, because directed to a more gross object. This is prophesied of Antichrist, that he and his Abettors, they shall worship Idols of Silver, and Gold, and Brass, and Wood and Stone, Rev. 9.20. Now tell a Papist of this, and they say, they do not terminate their worship in the Image, but in the party whom it representeth, the same said the Pagan. Non Lapidem sed Iovem in Lapide, Iulian the Apostate. But God hath forbidden bowing to, or before an Image.
Fifthly, The worshipping of the Cross, not only by cuppying, bowing, cringing, but Prayers. O Crux ave spes unica hoc Passionis Tempore, auge piis justitiam reisque dona veniam. All hale O Cross, our only hope this time of passion, augment the Godly's Devotion, and forgive the transgression of the guilty.
Fifthly, The worshipping of the Cross, not only by cuppying, bowing, cringing, but Prayers. O Crux ave spes unica hoc Passionis Tempore, auge piis justitiam reisque dona veniam. All hale O Cross, our only hope this time of passion, augment the Godly's Devot•on, and forgive the transgression of the guilty.