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

(3.) In fervent prayer we have a double advantage, we get a sight of God and exercise strong love to God, and both conduce to make us like God.

(1.) We get a sight of God, for in it (if it be seriously performed) we turn our back upon all other things, that we may look to God as sitting upon the Throne, governing all things by his power for his Glory. By Faith we see the invisible one, Heb. 11. 27. surely if we do not see God before the eye of our Faith, when we pray to him we ⟨p. 36⟩Worship an Idol, not the true and living God; who is and is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Our hearts should be shut up against the thoughts of any other thing, and confined only to the object to whom we direct our Worship. I reason thus, if a Christian foreseeth the Lord before him in all his ways, and keepeth always as in his eye and presence, surely he should set the Lord before him in his Worship and in his prayers, Psalm 16. 8. a good Christian doth always keep as in Gods eye and presence, much more when he calleth upon his Name; now every sight of God doth more affect and change the heart, as none but the pure in heart see God; so none see God but are most pure in heart, there is a self-purifying in moral things, purity of heart maketh way for the sight of God, Mark 5. 8. so the sight of God maketh way for the purity of Heart, John Epist. 3. 11. He that doth evil hath not seen God, a serious sight of God certainly worketh some change in us.

(1.) We get a sight of God, for in it (if it be seriously performed) we turn our back upon all other things, that we may look to God as sitting upon the Throne, governing all things by his power for his Glory. By Faith we see the invisible one,