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Volume 1 begins with a biographical memoir of Thomas Manton by William Harris, which traces the formative events of Manton’s childhood and education. The remainder of Volume 1 contains a 253-page line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer, seven sermons on the temptation of Christ, seven sermons on the transfiguration of Christ, and seven sermons on Christ’s eternality.

though it was real; as Paul was taken up into the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body we cannot easily judge, but real it was. I shall more accurately discuss this question afterwards in its more proper place. 3. What moved him, or how was he brought to enter into the lists with Satan? He was ‘led by the Spirit,’ meaning thereby the impulsion and excitation of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. For it is said, Luke 4:1, ‘Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan,
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