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

I. Of the Time, and as he prayed, Now what Christ prayed for is not specified. If he asked common blessings and prayed only in order to his usual solace and converse with God, it showed the success of vehemency in prayer; Christ prayed at such a rate as that he was Transfigured and changed into the likeness of God in prayer. 2. If he asked to be Transfigured for the confirmation ⟨p. 31⟩of his Disciples, it showeth Gods readiness to answer fervent and earnest Prayers.

I. Of the Time, and as he prayed, Now what Christ prayed for is not specified. If he asked common blessings and prayed only in order to his usual solace and converse with God, it shewed the success of vehemency in prayer; Christ prayed at such a rate as that he was Transfigured and changed into the likeness of God in prayer. 2. If he asked to be Transfigured for the confirmation ⟨p. 31⟩of his Disciples, it sheweth Gods readyness to answer fervent and earnest Prayers.

1. Of the First consideration, if Christs prayer were of ordinary import it teacheth us, that we should pray so that the Heart may be raised and lifted unto God in prayer, and in some sort made like unto God, let us state this matter aright.

1. It must be granted that this shining of Christs countenance as the Sun while he prayed was extraordinary, and a dispensation peculiar to the Son of God; so also was the shining of Moses his face while he conversed with God in the Mount,