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

(1.) That as God is glorious in himself, so he maketh him that cometh to him partaker of his Glory. For certainly all communion with God breedeth some Assimilation and likeness unto God: it is clear in heavenly glory when we see him as he is, we shall be like him, 1 John 3. 2. and it is clear also in our Communion with him in the Spirit; for the Apostle telleth us that by beholding the Glory of the Lord as in a glass we are changed into the same Image, from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3. 18. not only doth vision, or immediate intuition produce this effect, but also spiritual specular vision or a sight of God in the Ordinances, produces a divine and God-like Nature, inclining us to hate sin and love Righteousness; the more we are above with God, the more we are like him: we see it in ordinary converse, a man is as the company that he keepeth, he that walketh with wise men shall be wise, (saith Solomon) ⟨p. 34⟩but a companion of fools shall be destroyed, Prov. 13. 20. now it is not imaginable that a man should converse often with God fervently, seriously and not be more like him. He that liveth in a Mill the dust will stick upon his clothes. Man receiveth an insensible taint from his company; he that liveth in a shop of Perfumes, often handleth them, is conversant among them, carrieth away somewhat of the fragrancy of these good Ointments, so by conversing with God we are made like him.

(1.) That as God is glorious in himself, so he maketh him that cometh to him partaker of his Glory. For certainly all communion with God breedeth some Assimilation and likeness unto God: it is clear in heavenly glory when we see him as he is, we shall be like him, 1 Iohn 3. 2. and it is clear also in our Communion with him in the Spirit; for the Apostle telleth us that by beholding the Glory of the Lord as in a glass we are changed into the same Image, from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3. 18