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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.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him, he will hear their cry, and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him. Implying, That because their eyes are to him the Author of all their blessings, therefore they call upon him and cry to him.
2. Serve him. That implieth external Reverence and Worship. Now we are said to serve him, either with respect unto the duties which are more directly to be performed unto God, or with respect to our whole Conversation.
2. Serve him. That implyeth external Reverence and Worship. Now we are said to serve him, either with respect unto the duties which are more directly to be performed unto God, or with respect to our whole Conversation.
(1.) With respect unto the duties which are more directly to be performed unto God; such as the Word, Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving, Sacraments. Surely these must be attended upon, because they are Acts of love to God, and Trust in God; and these holy Duties are the ways of God, wherein he hath promised to meet with his people, and hath appointed us to expect his Grace, and therefore they must not be neglected by us. Therefore serve him in these things, for Mar. 4. 24. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. It is a rule of commerce between us and God.