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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.
I shall consider in both, the History and the Observations.
First, The History of it, as it properly belongeth to Christ: And there,
1. Of the first Branch, the Recess of Satan, then the devil leaveth him.
1. It was necessary to be known, that Christ had power to chase away the devil at his pleasure; that as he was an instance of Temptations, so he might be to us a pattern of Victory and Conquest. If Satan had continued Tempting, this would have been obscured, which would have been an infringement of Comfort to us. The devil being overcome by Christ, he may be also overcome by us Christians, 1 Joh. 5. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not. That is, he useth all care and diligence to keep himself pure, that the devil draw him not into the sin unto death, and those deliberate, scandalous sins which lead to it. Christ having overcome Satan in our name and nature, showeth us the way, how to fight against him and overcome him.