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

3. Those cold Affections which we have are killed by disuse and turning away from God, therefore go to him to get thy heart warmed.

II. Of the second Consideration. If he prayed for this Transfiguration, Observe,

That God often answereth his People in the very time while they are praying, Isa. 58. 9. When they call I will answer, and when they cry he shall say, Hear I am. This hath been the course of Gods dealing with the Prayer makers all along; Abel, Gen. 4. 4. God had respect to; it is [Greek or Hebrew], set his offering on fire. Daniel prayeth, and saith he, Dan. 9. 21. While I was speaking in Prayer the Angel Gabriel was sent unto me. And he said, at the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth. While many of the Disciples were gathered together praying, God sent Peter to them, Acts 12. 12, 13. While Cornelius, was in the Act of Prayer, at the ninth hour of the day, which was the Hour of Prayer, he saw in a Vision the ⟨p. 45⟩Angel of God, Acts 10. 3. to 9th. ver. while Peter went up to the house top to pray, then he had the Heavenly Vision; so when Paul was in Prayer Ananias was sent to him, Acts 9. 11