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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.
USE.
Is to press us to two things; I. To press us to an holy Awe and Reverence, when we come near to God. II. To take heed that our fear of God do not degenerate into a slavish fear.
First, To press us to an holy Awe and Reverence of God, when we draw nigh unto him. Surely we should in all our Worship have such thoughts of God, as may leave a stamp of Humility, and some Impressions of the Majesty and Excellency of God upon us; and we should fall upon our faces, though not in a way of Consternation, yet in a way of Adoration. And because usually we bewray much slightness and Irreverence in our converses with God and Approaches to him, I shall press it a little.
1. I will show how the Scriptures in the general do call for this Holy Awe of the Majesty of God in all our Worship. Psal. 111. 9. Holy and reverend is his name, and therefore never to be used by us, but in an awful and serious manner;