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A51838 Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late Reverend Tho. Manton ... Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677. 1685 (1685) Wing M521; ESTC R31880 183,001 436

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You must make your way to heaven almost every step by conflict and conquest Remember your baptismal vow the obligation of which ceaseth not till your life be ended and then you shall be out of Gun-shot and Harmes-way Therefore still follow the Captain of your Salvation wherever he leadeth you The more Trials the more Glory 3. Avoid rash Judgment and Censure if the same happen to others Pyrates do not use to set upon an empty Vessel The best are most assaulted God permitteth it for their Trial and Satan hath the greatest spight at them II. Observe That the more grievous temptations follow the lighter ones and the last assaults and trials are usually the greatest This is so if you respect either the dexterity and cunning of the Tempter represented before or the foulness of the Temptation viz. to Idolatry The best of Gods Children may be tempted to the most execrable sins Thus usually doth Satan reserve his worst assaults for the last and his last temptation is commonly the sorest Dying Beasts bite shrewdly so Satan rageth most when he hath but a short time Therefore since our warfare is not over let us prepare for the worst brunt and the last efforts of Satan If God will crown us fighting we have no cause to complain Many of Gods servants whom he could not draw to Worldliness Sensuality or Vain-glory in their Life-time he will seek to inject blasphemous thoughts into their Minds at last But though it be grievous be not dismayed your Conquest is sure and near III. Observe The World and Worldly things are the bait and snare which the Tempter offereth to Christ and his followers As here when he would make his last onset upon Christ he sets before him the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them as the matter of the Temptation 1. There are three Enemies of our Salvation the Devil the World and the Flesh they are reckoned up together Eph. 2. 2 3. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind The Devil is the deceiver and grand Architect of all wickedness the Flesh is the Principle that he worketh upon or that rebelling faculty within us that would be pleased before God the World is the bait by which the devil would deceive us and steal away our hearts from God for it suiteth with our fleshly appetites and desires More distinctly that Satan is an enemy appeareth from his name that signifieth an Adversary and in many places of Scripture he is so called as Matth. 13. 25. While men slept the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat compared with the 39th verse The enemy that sowed them is the Devil he is the great Enemy to God and Man 1 Pet. 5. 8. Your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lyon walketh about c. The Flesh is an Enemy yea our greatest Enemy for it warreth against the soul 1 Pet. 2. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. If you indulge the Flesh you are willing to lose your Souls Yea it warreth against the Spirit or better part as contrary to it Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh Other things could do us no harm without our own flesh We are tempted to Sin by Satan encouraged to sin by the Example and Custom of the World but enclined to Sin by our own Flesh. The World is an Enemy of our Salvation as well as the Devil and the Flesh all the other Enemies get strength by it by the bait of worldly things the devil pleaseth the flesh we are in continual danger of being everlastingly undone by it Whosoever is a Lover of the World is presumed to be a professed Enemy of God Iam. 4. 4. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God 1 Ioh. 2. 15. If any man love the world the love of the father is not in him It is an Enemy because it keepeth us from God who is our chief good and the enjoyment of him among his blessed ones which is our last end There is a neglect of God and heavenly things where the world prevaileth 2. The devil maketh use of the world to a double end 1. To divert us from God and Heavenly things that our Time and Care and Thoughts may be wholly taken up about things here below Luk. 12. 19. Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry Phil. 3. 19 20. They mind earthly things But our conversation is in heaven These are perfectly opposite Some are of the world and speak of the world and wholly mind the world and are governed by the spirit of this world seldom look higher or very coldly and slightly Thus that which should be thought of in the first place is scarce thought of at all But remember he doth but offer you worldly things to deprive you of heavenly 2. To draw us to some open sin for the worlds sake as here he tempted Christ to Idolatry and Demas to defection from the Faith 2 Tim. 4. 10. Demas hath forsaken us having loved this present world Others to some carnal fraudulent oppressive course whereby they are spotted by the World The whore of Babylon propoundeth her Abominations in a golden cup Rev. 17. 4. and the great motive here is All this will I give thee Though the Devil cometh not in Person to us with his offers he doth by his Instruments as Balak when he sent to Balaam to curse the Israelites he promised him great rewards Numb 22. 17. I will promote thee unto very great honour and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me Come therefore I pray thee curse me this people So when he doth intice you by the motions of your own hearts to any thing that is unlawful to falshood deceit or unjust gain or to get and keep wealth by any base or unjust means or doing something that is base and unworthy of your Religion 3. I Observe that Temptations from the world may prevail with us Satan maketh use of a twofold Artifice The one is to greaten the worldly Object the other is to make us large promises of success happiness and contentment in our evil enterprizes 1. He useth this sleight here he doth in the most inticing manner lay the world before Christ as a splendid object to greaten it in Christs Thoughts and apprehensions Therefore when we begin to magnifie the Riches Pomp and pleasures of the World the devil is at our Elbow and we are running into the snare And therefore if we begin to say happy is the people that is in