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

(3.) This new and wonderful splendour was not in Imagination and Appearance only, but real and sensible. If it had been in Imagination, show and Appearance, it would make Christ like those Deceivers who would dazzle the Eyes of Beholders with a false Appearance; as Magical Impostors, or those Apish Imitators of Divine Glory; as Herod, Agrippa, of whom we read Acts 12. 21, 22, 23. how he appeared in Royal State and made an Oration, and they said, the voice of a God, and not of a Man. Josephus telleth us the manner how he sat in the Sun, with glistering Garments of Cloth of Silver, and when the Sunbeams ⟨p. 50⟩did beat upon it the People cried him up as [Greek or Hebrew] as something higher and more excellent then a Mortal Creature. No, this was not a fantastical Representation, but a real Impression of Divine Glory on the Body of Christ.

(3.) This new and wonderful splendor was not in Imagination and Appearance onely, but real and sensible. If it had been in Imagination, shew and Appearance, it would make Christ like those Deceivers who would dazle the Eyes of Beholders with a false Appearance; as Magical Impostors, or those Apish Imitators of Divine Glory; as Herod, Agrippa, of whom we read Acts 12. 21, 22, 23. how he appeared in Royal State and made an Oration, and they said, the voice of a God, and not of a Man. Iosephus telleth us the manner how he sat in the Sun, with glistering Garments of Cloath of Silver, and when the Sunbeames ⟨p. 50⟩did beat upon it the People cried him up as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as something higher and more excellent then a Mortal Creature. No, this was not a phantastical Representation, but a real Impression of Divine Glory on the Body of Christ.