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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 ...
A51838:361
Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late Reverend Tho. Manton ...
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1. Because he cannot overcome you without your own consent. The wicked are taken captive by him at his will and pleasure, 2 Tim. 2. 26. because they yield themselves to his temptations, like the young man, Prov. 7. 22. He goeth after her straightway, as an Ox goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of the stocks. There is a Consent or at least there is not a powerful Dissent. Satan's power lieth not in a constraining efficacy, but persuasive allurement.
1. Because he cannot overcome you without your own consent. The wicked are taken captive by him at his will and pleasure, 2 Tim. 2. 26. because they yeild themselves to his temptations, like the young man, Prov. 7. 22. He goeth after her straightway, as an Ox goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of the stocks. There is a Consent or at least there is not a powerful Dissent. Satan's power lyeth not in a constraining efficacy, but perswasive allurement.
2. The sweetness of victory will recompense the trouble of Resistance, it is much more pleasing to deny a temptation, than to yield to it; the pleasure of sin is short-lived, but the pleasure of self-denial is Eternal.
2. The sweetness of victory will recompence the trouble of Resistance, it is much more pleasing to deny a temptation, than to yield to it; the pleasure of sin is shortlived, but the pleasure of self-denyal is Eternal.
3. Grace the more it is tried and exercised, the more it is evidenced to be right and sincere, Rom. 5. 3, 4, 5. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience ⟨p. 207⟩experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us. It is a comfortable thing to know that we are of the Truth, and to be able to assure our hearts before God.
3. Grace the more it is tryed and exercised, the more it is evidenced to be right and sincere, Rom. 5. 3, 4, 5. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience ⟨p. 207⟩experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us. It is a comfortable thing to know that we are of the Truth, and to be able to assure our hearts before God.
4. Grace is strengthened when it hath stood out against a Trial. As a Tree shaken with fierce Winds is more fruitful, its Roots being loosened. Satan is a loser and you a gainer by temptations, wherein you have approved your fidelity to God: as a man holdeth a stick the faster when another seeketh to wrest it out of his hands.
4. Grace is strengthned when it hath stood out against a Tryal. As a Tree shaken with fierce Winds is more fruitful, its Roots being loosned. Satan is a loser and you a gainer by temptations, wherein you have approved your fidelity to God: as a man holdeth a stick the faster when another seeketh to wrest it out of his hands.
5. The more we resist Satan the greater will our reward be 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the Faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness. The danger of the battle will increase the joy of the victory; as the dangers of the way make home the sweeter. There will a time come, when he that is now a Soldier will be a Conqueror, Rom. 16. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
5. The more we resist Satan the greater will our reward be 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the Faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness. The danger of the battle will encrease the joy of the victory; as the dangers of the way make home the sweeter. There will a time come, when he that is now a Souldier will be a Conqueror, Rom. 16. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
6. Where Satan gets possession, after he seemeth to be cast out, he returneth with the more violence and tyrannizeth the more, Matth. 12. 45. Then goeth he and taketh with himself, seven other spirits more wicked then himself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
7. The Lords Grace is promised to him that resisteth. God keepeth us from the evil one, but it is by our watchfulness and resistance; his power maketh it effectual. We are to strive against sin and keep our selves, and God keepeth us by making our keeping effectual.
III. What are the Graces, that enable us in this Resistance? I Answer, the three fundamental Graces, Faith, Hope, and Love, so the spiritual Armour is represented, 1 Thess. 5. 8. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-plate of Faith and Love, and for an helmet the hope of Salvation.
1. A strong Faith, 1 Pet. 5. 9. Whom resist, steadfast in the Faith. This is in the general a sound belief of Eternity, or a deep ⟨p. 209⟩sense of the World to come. When we believe the Gospel with an assent so strong, as constantly to adhere to the duties prescribed, and to venture all upon the hopes offered therein.
1. A strong Faith, 1 Pet. 5. 9. Whom resist, stedfast in the Faith. This is in the general a sound belief of Eternity, or a deep ⟨p. 209⟩sense of the World to come. When we believe the Gospel with an assent so strong, as constantly to adhere to the duties prescribed, and to venture all upon the hopes offered therein.
2. A fervent love arising out of the sense of our obligations to God, that we do with all readiness of mind set our selves to do his will, levelling and directing our actions to his glory. Love is strong as death, and many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it, Cant. 8. 6, 7. This love will neither be bribed, nor frightened from Christ.
2. A fervent love arising out of the sense of our obligations to God, that we do with all readiness of mind set our selves to do his will, levelling and directing our actions to his glory. Love is strong as death, and many waters cannot quench love, neither can the flouds drown it, Cant. 8. 6, 7. This love will neither be bribed, nor frightned from Christ.
3. A lively Hope, that doth so long and wait for glory to come, that present things do not greatly move us; either delights, 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seen ye love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; or the terrors of sense, Rom. 8. 18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us.
3. A lively Hope, that doth so long and wait for glory to come, that present things do not greatly move us; either delights, 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seen ye love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory; or the terrors of sense, Rom. 8. 18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us.
Christ was a pattern of this, The devil leaveth him, and behold! Angels came and ministered unto him. When God delivered his people after a long captivity, he delivered them with glory, and some kind of triumph, when he turned the Egyptian Captivity, they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required; and they spoiled the Egyptians, Exod, 12. 35, 36. So in the Babylonian Captivity, Cyrus chargeth his subjects in the place where the Jews remain, to furnish them with all things necessary for their journey, Ezek. 1. 4. And whosoever remaineth in any place, where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. So in a private instance, Job 42. 10, 11. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his Friends: also the ⟨p. 211⟩Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house, and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold. It is said the Lord turned the captivity of Job, because he had been delivered to Satan's power, till the Lord set him at Liberty again, and then all his Friends had compassion on him, even those that had despised him before relieved him. So Isaiah 61. 7. For your shame you shall have double, and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion; therefore in their Land they shall possess the double, Everlasting joy shall be unto them. They should have large and eminent Honour, double honour for their shame, such a reparation would God make them for all the troubles and damages they had sustained. So in an ordinary Providence God raiseth up comforters to his servants, after all the injuries done them by satan's instruments. And so also in spirituals the grief and trouble that cometh by Temptation is recompensed with more abundant consolation after the ⟨p. 212⟩
and God delighteth to put special marks of favour upon his people, that have been faithful in an hour of Trial. Now God doth this,
and God delighteth to put special marks of favour upon his people, that have been faithful in an hour of Tryal. Now God doth this,
1. To show the World the advantage of Godliness, and close adhering to him in an hour of temptation, Psalm 119. 56. This I had because I kept thy precepts. And Psalm 58. 11. So that a man shall say, verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth.
1. To shew the World the advantage of Godliness, and close adhering to him in an hour of temptation, Psalm 119. 56. This I had because I kept thy precepts. And Psalm 58. 11. So that a man shall say, verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth.
2. To check our diffidence and murmurings under trouble. Within a while and Gods Children will see, they have no cause to quarrel with God, or repent that they were in trouble. For sometimes God giveth not only a comfortable but a glorious issue. There is nothing lost by waiting on Providence, though we abide the blows of Satan for a while, yet abide them; God is it may be preparing the greater mercy for you, Isaiah 25. 9. And it shall be said in that day, lo! this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Afflictions are sharp in their season, but the end is glorious.
2. To check our diffidence and murmurings under trouble. Within a while and Gods Children will see, they have no cause to quarrel with God, or repent that they were in trouble. For sometimes God giveth not only a comfortable but a glorious issue. There is nothing lost by waiting on Providence, though we abide the blows of Satan for a while, yet abide them; God is it may be preparing the greater mercy for you, Isaiah 25. 9. And it shall be said in that day, lo! this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation. Afflictions are sharp in their season, but the end is glorious.
Christ was a pattern of this, The devil leaveth him, and behold! Angels came and ministred unto him. When God delivered his people after a long captivity, he delivered them with glory, and some kind of triumph, when he turned the Egyptian Captivity, they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required; and they spoiled the Egyptians, Exod, 12. 35, 36. So in the Babylonian Captivity, Cyrus chargeth his subjects in the place where the Jews remain, to furnish them with all things necessary for their journey, Ezek. 1. 4. And whosoever remaineth in any place, where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God, that is in Ierusalem. So in a private instance, Iob 42. 10, 11. And the Lord turned the captivity of Iob, when he prayed for his Friends: also the ⟨p. 211⟩Lord gave Iob twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house, and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of mony, and every one an ear-ring of gold. It is said the Lord turned the captivity of Iob, because he had been delivered to Satans power, till the Lord set him at Liberty again, and then all his Friends had compassion on him, even those that had despised him before releived him. So Isaiah 61. 7. For your shame you shall have double, and for confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion; therefore in their Land they shall possess the double, Everlasting joy shall be unto them. They should have large and eminent Honour, double honour for their shame, such a reparation would God make them for all the troubles and dammages they had sustained. So in an ordinary Providence God raiseth up comforters to his servants, after all the injuries done them by satan's instruments. And so also in spirituals the grief and trouble that cometh by Temptation is recompensed with more abundant consolation after the ⟨p. 212⟩conquest and victory;