Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

Doct. I. That the days of Gods peoples Conflicts and Trials will not always last.

Doct. I. That the dayes of Gods peoples Conflicts and Trials will not alwayes last.

There are alternative changes and vicissitudes in their condition upon Earth; sometimes they are vexed with the coming of the Tempter, and then encouraged and cheered by the presence of Angels: after storms come days of Joy and Gladness; the devil departeth, and the angels came and ministered to him. So Psal. 34. 19. Many are the afflictions of the Righteous, but the ⟨p. 191⟩Lord delivereth him out of them all. Here is their present conflict, and their final conquest. Look on a Christian on his dark side, and there are Afflictions, and Afflictions many for number and kind; look on his luminous part, and there is the Lord to take care of him, to deliver him, and the deliverance is complete, the Lord delivereth him out of them all. God will put an end to their conflict sooner or later, sometimes visibly in this Life, or if he doth not deliver them till death, or from death, he will deliver them by death; then he delivereth them from all sin and misery at once, for death is theirs. The Reasons are these,

There are alternative changes and vicissitudes in their condition upon Earth; sometimes they are vexed with the coming of the Tempter, and then incouraged and cheared by the presence of Angels: after stormes come dayes of Joy and Gladness; the devil departeth, and the angels came and ministred to him. So Psal. 34. 19. Many are the afflictions of the Righteous, but the ⟨p. 191⟩Lord delivereth him out of them all. Here is their present conflict, and their final conquest. Look on a Christian on his dark side, and there are Afflictions, and Afflictions many for number and kind; look on his luminous part, and there is the Lord to take care of him, to deliver him, and the deliverance is compleat, the Lord delivereth him out of them all. God will put an end to their conflict sooner or later, sometimes visibly in this Life, or if he doth not deliver them till death, or from death, he will deliver them by death; then he delivereth them from all sin and misery at once, for death is theirs. The Reasons are these,