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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.
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.
3. To counterwork the devil; evil Angels are ready to hurt us, and therefore good Angels are ready to preserve us. Well might the devil be so well versed in this place, he hath often felt the effects of it, he knew it by experience, being so often encountered by the good Angels in his endeavours against the people of God.
3. To counterwork the devil; evil Angels are ready to hurt us, and therefore good Angels are ready to preserve us. Well might the devil be so well versed in this place, he hath often felt the effects of it, he knew it by experience, being so often encounter'd by the good Angels in his endeavors against the people of God.