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A51839	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 ...	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1679 (1679)	Wing M522; ESTC R7577	216,743	470

In differences between God and Baal Christ and Antichrist few are valiant for the truth Ier. 9.3 And they bend their tongue like their bow for lies but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the Lord. Contend earnestly Jude 3. It was needful for me to write unto you and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints Again 2. There are many sensualists unclean and carnal Gospellers to these God oweth a Judgment Usually the Gospel is removed and given to a Nation that will bring forth the fruits thereof They that use the truth only or principally for their own turns hate to be reformed God will reckon with them Psal. 50.16 17. But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldst take my Covenant into thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee 2. Vse shews you indeed that you love the Gospel Carentia remedii is a grievous misery or else Christ had not come as a great Blessing Neglectus remedii is a grievous sin to be lazy in a matter of such moment Those that never set their hearts to obey the truth Crassa negligentia dolus est There should be constant purpose endeavour striving and not cease striving till we in some measure prevail rejectio or contemptio remedii if we put away the word of God from us Acts 13.46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you but seeing ye pu● it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life loe we turn to the Gentiles God will be gone if not from the Land from thy Soul This is the most hainous iniquity of all Heb. 10.28 29. He that despised Moses his Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified a● unholy thing and hath done despight unto the Spirit of grace So Esau's despising his Birthright Heb. 12.15 Lest there be any Fornicator or prophane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his Birthright for ye know how that afterwards when he would have inherited the Blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with ●ears SERMON IX 2 Thess. 2.11 12. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness WE have considered the sin of those seduced by Antichrist now the Judgment It is twofold 1. Delusion in this World verse 11. 2. Damnation in the next verse 12. 1. Delusion in this World where take notice of three things 1. The Author of it God shall send it 2. The degree or nature of the punishment strong delusion 3. The issue of it that they should believe a lie 2. Their punishment in the next World That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness where take notice 1. Of the terribleness of it it is no less than everlasting damnation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. The Justice and Equity of it They believed not the truth but had pleasure in righteousness 1. I begin with their Judgment in this World For this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie Doct. That by Gods just Judgment there is an infatuation upon the Followers and Abettors of Antichrist that they swallow the grossest errors to their own destruction To clear this I shall speak 1. To the Author 2. The degree or kind of the punishment 3. The effect and issue 1. As to the Author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here a difficulty ariseth For God is not and cannot be the Author of sin He that is essentially good cannot be the cause of evil And he that is Vltor peccati the avenger of sin cannot be Author peccati the Author of it If he should cause man to sin how will his punishment of it be just I Answ. As it is a sin God hath no hand in it but as it is a punishment of sin God hath to do in it To clear this to you consider 1. He that is the supreme Lord and Governour of his Creatures is also their Judge For Legislation and Judgment belong to the same Authority And therefore God is called sometimes our King and sometimes o●r Judge Gen. 18.25 Shall not the Iudge of all the earth do right Rom. 5.6 Is God un●ighteous how then shall he judge the World That is his Office and Prerogative 2. Gods way of judging for the present is either external or internal As for instance there are two acts of Judicature Reward and Punishment In rewarding Gods external Government is seen in dispensing outward Blessings to his people as the fruit of their obedience Micah 2.7 Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly His promises speak good and as fulfilled do good yield protection maintenance and such a measure of outward prosperity as supporteth and maintaineth them during their service David owned Gods dealing with him in this sort Psal. 119.56 This I had because I kept thy Precepts So as to his internal Government in giving them peace of Conscience and Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Pro. 3.17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace These are the internal rewards of obedience And so also God often rewardeth grace with grace As Isa. 58.13 14. If tho● turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thy own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Iacob thy Father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Psal. 31.24 Be of good Courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the Lord. Proficiency in the same grace is a reward of the several acts and exercise of it So in punishing sometimes he useth the way of external Government by the terrib●e Judgments exercised upon men for the breach of his Law Rom. 1.18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Heb. 2.2 Every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward

pitched it here some there until the Pit was discovered to the Church and the snare layed open and now to run wilfully into these errours how damnable is it If Papists cleave to him let not Protestants fall to him to continue Papists is dangerous for they favour Antichrist and serve Antichrist but to turn Papists is more dangerous for this is a downright revolt from Christ to Antichrist and how God may in mercy dispense with errors imbibed in our Education we know not but to turn our back on the truth wherein we have been educated and instructed maketh it more dangerous to our Salvation Secondly We now come to the more comfortable part his ruine where note I. In the general that the Apostle as soon as he had showed his rise he presently foretelleth his ruine to support the hearts of the ●aithful though he hath yet more things to speak concerning his discovery v. 9. I cannot let this pass without an Observation Doct. That a spiritual eye can discern the ruin of wicked instruments even in their rise and Reign Job 5.3 I have seen the foolish taking root and presently I c●rsed his habitation by the foolish is mean● the wicked by their taking root their seeking to fix and settle themselves in their Worldly prosperity I presently that is without any great deliberation which in this matter needeth not cursed their habitation not as desiring but as forseeing and foretelling I pronounced them accursed or to be in a cursed condition when carnal men seek to root and establish themselves upon Earth to a spiritual eye their best estate is miserable and detestable when we see their rise we may foretel their fall Reasons 1. Their Faith occasion such a reflection which is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 they lookt not at things as at present they seem to short-sighted men or as they relish to the flesh but as they appear and will be judged of at last their ruine is as present before them as their rise present time is quickly past but now without Faith this cannot be 2 Pet. 1.9 He that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but are dazled with present splendor and so mis●arry 2. This Faith is necessary 1. Partly to prevent scandal at the prosperity of an ungodly party who obey not the Gospel but corrupt and pervert it to their Worldly ends D●vids steps were even gone when he saw the prosperity of the wicked till he went into the Sanctuary and understood their end Psal. 73.17 that setled his heart to consider what end these men were appointed unto how prosperous soever they seem to be for the present yet the end must put the difference there they see the wicked in the height of their prosperity as ready to be cut down and withered 2. To prevent Apostasie they chuse the better part that chuse the Holiness and Patience of the Saints 2 Cor. 4.18 While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal but things present carry away our hearts because we have so dim and doubtful a sight of things to come whereas if we did look upon them as sure and near they would fortifie us against Temptations Prov. 3.31 32. Envy thou not the Oppressor and chuse none of his wayes For the froward is abomination to the Lord but his secret is with the righteous II. More particularly the ruine of Antichrist is set forth 1. Partly by the manner of his fall it is represented both as begun and finished he shall be consumed he shall be destroyed the one noteth a lingring delay the other an utter Perdition that he shall be finally rooted out First consumed to consume is to waste and melt away by little and little Doct. Antichrist is not presently to be destroyed but to waste away by a lingring Consumption as his rising was by little and little so is his fall he loseth his Authority in Christendom by degrees Now the Reasons may be these 1. God hath a Ministry and use for him and the abetters of his Kingdom as he hath an use for the Devil himself therefore permitteth him some limited power but yet he holdeth him in the Chains of his invicible Providence so hath he a use for the Devils eldest Son for Antichrist and Antichristian Adversaries which if their power were wholly gone could not be performed as 1. To scourge his people for their sins as their contempt of the Gospel and wantonness under the several priviledges which they enjoy by it God will not want a rod to scourge his disobedient Children as Isa. 10.5 he calleth the Assyrian the rod of his Ange● the Instrument that he maketh use off to punish those with whom he is angry and again the staff of his Indignation the Staff is an heavier and sorer instrument of correction than a Rod what the Assyrian was to the Jews that Antichrist is to professing Christians God useth him till he hath sufficiently chastised his Children and then he will cast this Rod into the Fire Heathens and Turks are at a distance from us our miseries will come from Antichristianism who are nearer at hand to execute the Lords vengeance when we grow wanton 2. To try his people for he expects a tryed obedience what Christianity we will accept and chuse that calculated for this World or that which is calculated for the next Antichristianism in all the branches of it is a sort of Religion suited to Worldly interests 1 John 4.5 They are of the World therefore speak they of the World and the World heareth them but true Christianity for the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 2.12 Now we have received not the spirit of the World but the spirit which is of God therefore God will try who are the formal and pretended Christians that serve their own bellies and the sincere Christians who look to an unseen World and are willing to hazard their own interests out of their fidelity to Christ Therefore when the Saints under the Altar groaned Rev. 6.10 How long Lord holy and true dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth the Answer given was v. 11. That they should rest for a season until their fellow servants and also their brethen that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled in every Age God will have his Witnesses who by their Faith and Patience and not loving their lives to the Death should promote the Lambs Kingdom before they receive their Crown and therefore though Antichrist be consumed more and more yet he hath so many abettors of his Kingdom left as may try Faith and Patience of the Saints 3. To Cure our Divisions Nazianzen called the Enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the common reconcilers the Dog is let loose to make the Sheep flock together we are hardened in our