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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.
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1. Let this draw forth our Love to such a blessed estate, which is so full of delight and contentment, and wean us from these things which are most pleasing in the World.
1. The best estate in the World is but vanity, altogether vanity, Psalm 39. 5. mingled with some grievances. Wealth hath its incident cares, and Honour its tortures; and all pleasures here are but bitter sweets: there is a Worm that feedeth on our gourd, and will in time wither it. At last death cometh and then the lust of the World is ⟨p. 109⟩gone, 1 John 2. 17. The World passeth away and the lust thereof. The Godly themselves have but a mixed estate, because of remaining infirmities, they live here in a Vale of tears and snares, and sin doth not gasp its last till death removeth us from this sinful flesh, and puts us into the sight of God himself: Wherefore the Saints are groaning and longing for the parting day, when putting off the flesh we shall put off sin, and come and dwell with God for ever.