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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. That it is a great favour of God to us, to escape Antichristian Errors. They are so dangerous in their own nature, so insinuative and inveigling by plausible appearance, and ⟨p. 262⟩accompanied with such worldly baits and advantages; that it is a great mercy •hat God hath taught us better things. But then be sure you be in the right, out of Conscience and Evidence, not out of Faction and Interest. And that you hate Popery out of the love of the Truth, rather than because you are out of the reach of the temptation. However it is a great mercy, that God keepeth off the Temptation, till we are better settled in Religion.
1. That it is a great favour of God to us, to escape Antichristian Errors. They are so dangerous in their own nature, so insinuative and inveigling by plausible appea•ance, and ⟨p. 262⟩accompanied with such worldly baits and advan••ges; that it is a great mercy •hat God hath taught us better things. But then be sure you be in the right, out of Conscience and Evidence, not out of Faction and Interest. And that you hate Popery out of the love of the Truth, rather than because you are out of the reach of the temptation. However it is a great mercy, that God keepeth off the Temptation, till we are better setled in Religion.
2. That the Election of God giveth a People great advantages against Errors, especially against the impostures of Antichrist; for when he speaketh of the sad estate of those who are seduced by the Man of Sin, he presently addeth, but we are bound to give thanks to God for you, for he hath chosen you to Salvation. You will say the Thessalonians received the Gospel before these corruptions were brought into the Church: but though Antichrist was not then in being, and this corrupt Christianity not then set a foot, yet there were some preparations for it. The mystery of iniquity already worketh, and they were preserved from the taint of it, by the Election of God; for either God suffereth not the Elect to be deceived in momentous points, or sooner or later he reduceth them: the purpose of God according to Election must stand,