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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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And again common People are a thousand times better instructed in their Tradition, than in the Doctrine of Salvation. They skill more of Lent, and Ember-weeks, &c. than they truly understand the Doctrine of Man's Misery and Remedy. And call you this Reverence and pious Affection to the Scriptures and Traditions? Partly because they would never give us a Catalogue of unwritten Traditions, necessary ⟨p. 342⟩to be observed by all Christians; It may be lest they should amaze the People with the multitude of them, or else that the People may not know how many of their Doctrines are destitute of Scripture proof, and so they plainly be discovered to be Imposers on the belief of the Christian World.
6. Though we blame this in Papists, yet we reject not all Traditions;
1. Because Scripture it self is a Tradition, as we proved before, and is conveyed to us by the most credible means, which we have no reason to doubt of. The Scriptures of the Old Testament were preserved by the Jews, to whom were committed the Oracles of God, Rom. 3.2. Protestants received all the Books which they admitted into their Canon. And for the Books of the New Testament, the Christian Church hath received them, as the Writings of those whose names they •ear. And by the constant Universal Tradition of the Church they are transmitted to us; and we have no more reason to doubt of them, than we do of Statutes and Laws made by Kings and Parliaments, who lived long before we had a being. Yea, we may be much more confident, as the Matter is of greater weight and consequence, and these Writings have the signature and stamp of God's Spirit on them, and have bin blessed by God, to the converting and sanctifying