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

1. To his Transfiguration height and secrecy were necessary. (1.) Height, this work required not only a Mountain, but an high Mountain, for his Transfiguration was a middle state between the infirmity of his Flesh, and the Glory that he now possesseth. So the top of a very high Mountain was chosen, it is as a middle place between ⟨p. 6⟩Heaven the Habitation of God, and Earth the Habitation of Men. Besides since Moses and Elijah were to appear in this Action, and that with Bodies above the state of those natural Bodies, which we have here below; it was more agreeable this should be done in a Mountain then in the lower parts of the Earth, yea moreover they were so nearer to Heaven, to which they went back again.

1. To his Transfiguration height and secrecy were necessary. (1.) Height, this work required not onely a Mountain, but an high Mountain, for his Transfiguration was a middle state between the infirmity of his Flesh, and the Glory that he now possesseth. So the top of a very high Mountain was chosen, it is as a middle place between ⟨p. 6⟩Heaven the Habitation of God, and Earth the Habitation of Men. Besides since Moses and Elias were to appear in this Action, and that with Bodies above the state of those natural Bodies, which we have here below; it was more agreeable this should be done in a Mountain then in the lower parts of the Earth, yea moreover they were so nearer to Heaven, to which they went back again.

(2.) Secrecy was necessary to his Transfiguration, for Christ was about a business which he would not have presently to come abroad, & therefore it was to be confined to the knowledge of a few, who were to be called up from the rest into an high Mountain, verse 9. Jesus charged them that they should tell the vision to no man till the Son of man was risen from the dead, and what was done before many will hardly be concealed. The due time for the general and public manifestation of the divine Glory was not yet come, therefore he would not have it unseasonably divulged. And hereby he teacheth us modesty, Christ was Crucified in the City before all, but Transfigured in the Mountain only before a few.