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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.
The Motion in the general is rash, sudden and unadvised, but being made by a good man though under a passion, there is something good and something bad in it.
1. That which was good in it is, he yet retaineth his Reverence.
1. That he submitteth his proposal to the judgement of his Lord and Master, wherein he expresseth his Reverence of Christ, Lord if thou wilt; he desireth a continuance of this dispensation, leaveth it to his consent, acknowledging herein his Wisdom and Authority.
2. It showeth the valuableness and felicity of conversing with Christ, and the glorified Saints; for when but two of them appear ⟨p. 99⟩in Glory talking with Christ, Peter said it is good to be here, to continue and abide in this place together with thy self, Moses and Elijah. What a blessed dignity is this, the Glory of Heaven is so ravishing and satisfactory to the soul, that the soul can rest in the least glimpse and degree of it. If a glimpse, what is the fullness, if the splendour of his humanity not yet Glorified be so great what is the Glory of his Godhead? If a fight of these things at a distance, what is the participation, when the Glory shall be revealed in us, or we shall appear with him in Glory? If Moses and Elijah, what is the company of all the Saints and Angels? If it be thus at Mount Tabor, what will it be in Heaven, when all the World is renewed, and refined, and the Church gathered together in one great Assembly.