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THE
WORKS OF THOMAS MANTON, D.D.
VOL. III.
COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.
W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh.
JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh.
THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh.
D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.
ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presby- terian Church, Edinburgh.
©cncral •Cbitor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, D.D., EniNBUucn.
THE COMPLETE WORKS
THOMAS MANTON, D.D,
VOLUME III.
CONTAINING
EIGHTEEN SERMONS ON THE DESCRIPTION, RISE, GROWTH, AND FALL OF ANTICHRIST;
AND
A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION UPON THE FIFTY-THIRD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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CONTENTS.
Eighteen Sermons on the Second Chapter of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.
To tte Reader,
3
Sermon I. 2 Thes. ii. 1, 2,
5
II. 2 Thes. ii. 2, .
14
III. 2 Thes. ii. 3, .
26
IV. 2 Thes. ii. 4, .
36
V. 2 Thes. ii. 5-7,
46
VI. 2 Thes. ii. 8, .
56
VII. 2 Thes. ii. 9, 10,
66
VIII. 2 Thes. ii. 10,
75
IX. 2 Thes. ii. 11, 12,
85
X. 2 Thes. ii. 12,
94
XI. 2 Thes. ii. 13,
102
XII. 2 Thes. ii. 14,
112
XIII. 2 Thes. ii. 15,
122
XIV. 2 Thes. ii. 16, 17,
135
XV. 2 Thes. ii. 16,
146
XVI. 2 Thes. ii. 16,
156
XVII. 2 Thes. ii. 17,
166
XVIII. 2 Thes. ii. 17, ractical Exposition upon the Fii
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176
Isaiah.
To the Reader, The First Verse, The Second Verse,
189 191 210
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PAGE
The Tliird Verse, •••... 247
The Fourth Verso,
2G0
The Fifth Verse,
272
The Sixth Verse,
295
The Seventh Verse,
335
The Eighth Verse,
344
The Ninth Verse,
362
The Tenth Verse,
368
The Eleventh Verse, .
400
The Twelfth Verse, .
455
EIGHTEEN SERMONS
SECOND CHAPTER OF THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS,
CONTAINING
THE DESCRIPTION, RISE, GROWTH, AND FALL OF ANTICHRIST,
DIVERS CAUTIONS AND ARGUMENTS TO ESTABLISH CHRISTIANS AGAINST THE APOSTASY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.
VOL, III.
TO THE READER.
Reader, — Dr Thomas Manton was not so unknown to London, nor is he so much forgotten, as that his name or writings should need any of my commendations. But booksellers expecting such an office, I have great reason to be willing to serve thee in serving the memorial of such a friend. What he was I need not tell even strangers, after the character truly given of him by his friend and mine in his funeral sermon. How sound in judgment against extremes in the contro- versies of these times, a great lamenter of the scandalous and dividing mistakes of some self-conceited men ; how earnestly desirous of the healing of our present breaches, and not unacquainted with the proper means and terms, of which the author of his funeral sermon and I had more than ordinary experience ; how hard and successful a student he was, and how frequent and laborious a preacher, and how highly and deservedly esteemed; — all this, and more, is commonly here known. The small distaste that some few had of him I took for part of his honour, who would not win reputation with any by flattering them in their mistakes or unwarrantable ways. He used not to serve God with that which cost him nothing, nor was of their mind who cannot expect or extol God's grace without denying those endeavours of man to which his necessary grace exciteth them. He knew that without Christ we could do nothing, and yet that by Christ's strengthen- iijg us we can do all things which God hath made necessary to be done by us. He was not of their mind that thought it derogatory to the honour of Christ to praise his work& in the souls or lives of any of his servants, and that it is the honour of his grace that his justified ones are graceless ; and that their Judge should dishonour his own right- eousness if he make his disciples more righteous personally than scribes and pharisees, and will say to them, ' Well done, good and faithful servant ; thou hast been faithful over a few things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' He knew how to regard the righteousness and intercession of Christ, with pardon of sin and divine acceptance, instead of legal personal perfection, without denying either the neces- sity or assigned office of our faith, repentance, or evangelical sincerity in obeying him that redeemed and justifieth us. He knew the differ- ence between a man's being justified from the charge of being liable to damnation as a CJrristlcss, impenitent ^inheliever and iingodbj, and being liahle to damnation for mere sin as sin, against the law o/inno- cency, loliich required of us no less than personal, -perfect, perpetual
4 TO THE READER.
obedience. He pjrcntly lamented the wronj^ which the truth and church underwent from those that neither knew such ditferences, nor liad humility enoucjh to suspect their judgments, nor to forheur reviling those that had not as confused and unsound .apprehensions and exj)ressions as themselves.