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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.
2. Our duty exactly stated with convenient motives to enforce it. Not only the comfort of man is provided for, but also our subjection to God, and that upon the freest and most comfortable terms, that we should serve him in love, and glorify, and please him, that we may be happy in his love to us: for the sum of Religion is to love him, and keep his Commandments, John 14. 21, 23, He that keepeth my Commandments he it is that loveth me, and if any man love me he will keep my Words, to love him is our work, and to be beloved of him is our Happiness, and verse 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my saying, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me. The Gospel is the very Word of God, both the Fathers and the Sons, it is an act of loving, serving, and pleasing God, for this is the Word Christ preached, that we love God, and Christ loveth us again.
2. Our duty exactly stated with convenient motives to enforce it. Not only the comfort of man is provided for, but also our subjection to God, and that upon the freest and most comfortable terms, that we should serve him in love, and glorifie, and please him, that we may be happy in his love to us: for the sum of Religion is to love him, and keep his Commandements, Iohn 14. 21, 23, He that keepeth my Commandements he it is that loveth me, and if any man love me he will keep my Words, to love him is our work, and to be beloved of him is our Happiness, and verse 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my saying, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me. The Gospel is the very Word of God, both the Fathers and the Sons, it is an act of loving, serving, and pleasing God, for this is the Word Christ preached, that we love God, and Christ loveth us again.
3. A prospect of eternal Happiness, 2 Tim. 1. 10. He hath brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel, this is news, but darkly revealed before, and without this