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

(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.

(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 publick 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.

2. The other action of Prayer doth very well agree with height and secrecy.

1. For Height, Though God heareth us every where wheresoever we lift up pure ⟨p. 7⟩hands without wrath and doubting, yet a Mountain is not altogether disagreeable to this duty; it is good to be as near Heaven as we can, I am sure it is good to get up the Heart there. We have a freer prospect of Heaven from a Mountain and may look up to those blessed Regions, where our God is; therefore Christ often chose a Mountain to pray in not only now but at other times,