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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. An Offer or Promise, all these things will I give thee. This is a vain boast of the tempter, who ascribeth to himself that ⟨p. 127⟩which was proper to God, and promiseth to Christ those things, which were all his before. God had said, Psalm 2. 8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession; this the devil, who affecteth to be like God arrogateth unto himself, as if he would make him the universal King of the World. In Luke it is chap. 4. 6. All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them; for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. But you must not always look for truth in the devils speeches: He is not Lord of the World to dispose of it at his own pleasure. And yet it is not to be supposed he would come with a downright untruth to the Son of God, if there were no pretence or varnish for it. Therefore we must distinguish between the devils lye and the colour thereof.
1. An Offer or Promise, all these things will I give thee. This is a vain boast of the tempter, who ascribeth to himself that ⟨p. 127⟩which was proper to God, and promiseth to Christ those things, which were all his before. God had said, Psalm 2. 8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession; this the devil, who affecteth to be like God arrogateth unto himself, as if he would make him the universal King of the World. In Luke it is chap. 4. 6. All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them; for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. But you must not alwayes look for truth in the devils speeches: He is not Lord of the World to dispose of it at his own pleasure. And yet it is not to be supposed he would come with a downright untruth to the Son of God, if there were no pretence or varnish for it. Therefore we must distinguish between the devils lye and the colour thereof.