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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.
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.
Sixthly, The Bread in the Sacrament, the Papists give it Cultum Latriae, that worship which is due to God; those Heathens worshipped living Animals, but these ador• a piece of Bread, kneel to it in their Chapels and Oratories; yea, in the midst of the Streets, when it is carried in Procession; these are the ⟨p. 239⟩Idols whom they worship; and what hope of Salvation is there in a Religion where the heart is turned so much from God to the Creature? 2. That they are more culpable than the Heathens. 1. As to their Hypocrisy, by distinctions and veil of Piety, wherewith they disguise all this: For this delight in unrighteousness was called before the deceivableness of unrighteousness. They profess to abhor Idols, and yet worship Images, and make that a point of Christianity, which is directly contrary to the drift of it, which is to teach us to worship God in the Spirit. 2. As to their helps against it, the Pagans were never taught to do better, though they sinned against the light of nature, in worshipping God by Images, yet they had no Scripture, no such express prohibitions to caution them, as we have from God. They pretend to believe the Scriptures, yet how do they seek to evade the force of them by crafty distinctions, that will never satisfy Conscience; though they help to blind the mind, and harden the heart. That which I urge is this, they were never interdicted this kind of worship by their Gods, but these know that it is severely forbidden by our God, and the second Commandment so stareth in their Faces, that it is expunged out of their Catechisms; and Vasquez is bold to affirm, that the second Commandment is Ceremonial. Lactantius of old said, Non est