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

1. In that he prayed, it teacheth us to hallow all our actions by prayer, we do not bid our selves God speed, unless we recommend our affairs to God; whatsoever Assurance we have of the Blessing, yet we must Pray, Jer. 29. 10, 11, 12. For thus saith the Lord, after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place, &c. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you, Ezek. 36. 37. I will for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them. Therefore we should be daily in the practise of this duty, and not look upon it as a work that may well be spared. If Christ who as to his Divine Nature was equal with God, surely we should often come and prostrate our selves before him in this act of Holy Adoration. Christ had right and title to all, all was his due; yet he was much in prayer; how dare we go about any business without his Leave, Counsel, and Blessing, and usurp any of his Blessings without begging them by Prayer.

1. In that he prayed, it teacheth us to hallow all our actions by prayer, we do not bid our selves God speed, unless we recommend our affairs to God; whatsoever Assurance we have of the Blessing, yet we must Pray, Ier. 29. 10, 11, 12. For thus saith the Lord, after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place, &c. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you, Ezek. 36. 37. I will for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them. Therefore we should be dayly in the practise of this duty, and not look upon it as a work that may well be spared. If Christ who as to his Divine Nature was equal with God, surely we should often come and prostrate our selves before him in this act of Holy Adoration. Christ had right and title to all, all was his due; yet he was much in prayer; how dare we go about any business without his Leave, Counsel, and Blessing, and usurp any of his Blessings without begging them by Prayer.