Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

III. Doctrine, That those that come out of eminent conflicts are usually delivered by God in a glorious manner.

Christ was a pattern of this, The devil leaveth him, and behold! Angels came and ministered unto him. When God delivered his people after a long captivity, he delivered them with glory, and some kind of triumph, when he turned the Egyptian Captivity, they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required; and they spoiled the Egyptians, Exod, 12. 35, 36. So in the Babylonian Captivity, Cyrus chargeth his subjects in the place where the Jews remain, to furnish them with all things necessary for their journey, Ezek. 1. 4. And whosoever remaineth in any place, where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. So in a private instance, Job 42. 10, 11. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his Friends: also the ⟨p. 211⟩Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house, and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold. It is said the Lord turned the captivity of Job, because he had been delivered to Satan's power, till the Lord set him at Liberty again, and then all his Friends had compassion on him, even those that had despised him before relieved him. So Isaiah 61. 7. For your shame you shall have double, and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion; therefore in their Land they shall possess the double, Everlasting joy shall be unto them. They should have large and eminent Honour, double honour for their shame, such a reparation would God make them for all the troubles and damages they had sustained. So in an ordinary Providence God raiseth up comforters to his servants, after all the injuries done them by satan's instruments. And so also in spirituals the grief and trouble that cometh by Temptation is recompensed with more abundant consolation after the