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

1. To begin with sin, that is the worst evil, because it maketh us hateful to God, and grieveth the Saints most, Rom. 7. 24. Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this Death. If any man had cause to complain of Afflictions, Paul much more being often imprisoned, whipped, stoned, but his lusts troubled him more then scourges; and his captivity to the Law of sin more then Prisons. Gods children are most weary of the World, because they are sinning here, whilst others are glorifying of God, and enjoying God and the company of his blessed Ones. Now in Heaven there is no sin, Eph. 5. 27. there is neither spot ⟨p. 106⟩nor blemish nor wrinkle on the face of the glorified Saints, their faces were once as black as yours. But now they are washed in the Lambs blood and fully cleansed, now with much ado we mortify sin, but then it is nullified; but if we subdue the power of sin we do not get rid of the being of it, but then we are rid of all at once, of all sin, and temptation to sin. There was a Serpent, a tempter in Paradise, but there is none in Heaven; the devil is shut out, and the old man is left in the Grave never to rise more.

1. To begin with sin, that is the worst evil, because it maketh us hateful to God, and grieveth the Saints most, Rom. 7. 24. Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this Death. If any man had cause to complain of Afflictions, Paul much more being often imprisoned, whipped, stoned, but his lusts troubled him more then scourges; and his captivity to the Law of sin more then Prisons. Gods children are most weary of the World, because they are sinning here, whilst others are glorifying of God, and enjoying God and the company of his blessed Ones. Now in Heaven there is no sin, Eph. 5. 27. there is neither spot ⟨p. 106⟩nor blemish nor wrinkle on the face of the glorified Saints, their faces were once as black as yours. But now they are washed in the Lambs blood and fully cleansed, now with much ado we mortifie sin, but then it is nullified; but if we subdue the power of sin we do not get rid of the being of it, but then we are rid of all at once, of all sin, and temptation to sin. There was a Serpent, a tempter in Paradise, but there is none in Heaven; the devil is shut out, and the old man is left in the Grave never to rise more.