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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.) Partly to show us, that the going of the one is the coming of the other. When the devil is gone, the Angels come. Certainly it is true on the contrary, 1 Sam. 16. 14. The spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him: and it is true in this sense, if we entertain the Temptation, we banish the good Angels from us: there is no place for the good Angels, till the Tempter be repulsed.
(2.) Partly to shew us, that the going of the one is the coming of the other. When the devil is gone, the Angels come. Certainly it is true on the contrary, 1 Sam. 16. 14. The spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him: and it is true in this sense, if we entertain the Temptation, we banish the good Angels from us: there is no place for the good Angels, till the Tempter be repulsed.
3. Why now? and to what end was this Ministry?
1. To put Honour on the Redeemer, who is the Head and Lord of the Angels, ⟨p. 188⟩Eph. 1. 20, 21. He hath set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principalities and powers, &c. and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. So 1 Pet. 3. 22