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Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /
Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late Reverend Tho. Manton ...
London printed : s.n., 1685
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.
Answ. The visible Ministry was extraordinary, proper to those times; but the invisible is perpetual and ordinary, as Abraham's servant did not see the Angel in the journey. The devil worketh in and about ⟨p. 78⟩wicked men invisibly, so do the good Angels.
Secondly, Reasons, Why it is so.
1. To manifest the great Love and Care, which God hath over his people; therefore he giveth those blessed Spirits, which behold his face, charge concerning his people on Earth; as if a Nobleman were charged to look to a Beggar, by the Prince of both.
2. We understand the operation of finite Agents, better than infinite. God is so far out of the reach of our commerce, that we cannot understand the particularity of his Providence.