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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.
2. His next course is to make large offers and promises by his instruments, or your own thoughts, that though you neglect God and Heaven, and do engage in some sinful course, you shall do well in the world, and enjoy full satisfaction. There is a double evil in Satan's Offers and Promises.
2. His next course is to make large offers and promises by his instruments, or your own thoughts, that though you neglect God and Heaven, and do engage in some sinful course, you shall do well in the world, and enjoy full satisfaction. There is a double evil in Satans Offers and Promises.
1. They are false, and fallacious. All these things will I give thee. Satan maketh fair offers of what he cannot perform: He promiseth many things, but doth only promise them: he offereth the Kingdoms of the world to Christ, but cannot make good his word; he showeth them to Christ, but cannot give them. And this is the devils wont, to be liberal in promises, to fill the minds of those that hearken to him with vain hopes, as if he could transfer the Riches and Honours of the world to whom he pleaseth, whereas they are shamefully disappointed, and find their ruin in the very things, in which they sought their Exaltation, and their projects are crossed, for the earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof, 1 Cor. 11. 26.
1. They are false, and fallacious. All these things will I give thee. Satan maketh fair offers of what he cannot perform: He promiseth many things, but doth only promise them: he offereth the Kingdomes of the world to Christ, but cannot make good his word; he sheweth them to Christ, but cannot give them. And this is the devils wont, to be liberal in promises, to fill the minds of those that hearken to him with vain hopes, as if he could transfer the Riches and Honours of the world to whom he pleaseth, whereas they are shamefully disappointed, and find their ruine in the very things, in which they sought their Exaltation, and their projects are crossed, for the earth is the Lords, and the fulness thereof,