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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.
3. I Observe, that Temptations from the world may prevail with us. Satan maketh use of a twofold Artifice. The one is to greaten the worldly Object, the other is to make us large promises of success, happiness, and contentment in our evil enterprises.
3. I Observe, that Temptations from the world may prevail with us. Satan maketh use of a twofold Artifice. The one is to greaten the worldly Object, the other is to make us large promises of success, happiness, and contentment in our evil enterprizes.
1. He useth this sleight here, he doth in the most enticing manner lay the world before Christ as a splendid object, to greaten it in Christs Thoughts and apprehensions. Therefore when we begin to magnify the Riches, Pomp and pleasures of the World, the devil is at our Elbow, and we are running into the snare. And therefore if we begin to say, happy is the people that is in such a case, it is time to correct our selves and say, yea happy is the people whose God is the Lord, Psal. 144. 15. Take heed the devil doth not gain this advantage over you, to make you follow the world with the greatest earnestness, and spiritual and heavenly things in a slight and overly manner. Esteem, desires, resolutions of worldly Greatness, though not upon base conditions, begin the Temptation. You think it is a fine thing to live in Pomp, and at ease, to swim in pleasures, and begin to resolve to make it ⟨p. 145⟩your business. The devil hath you upon the hip, it is a hour of Temptation.
1. He useth this sleight here, he doth in the most inticing manner lay the world before Christ as a splendid object, to greaten it in Christs Thoughts and apprehensions. Therefore when we begin to magnifie the Riches, Pomp and pleasures of the World, the devil is at our Elbow, and we are running into the snare. And therefore if we begin to say, happy is the people that is in such a case, it is time to correct our selves and say, yea happy is the people whose God is the Lord,