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

1. What Christ was. 2. What he should be. And 3. Also what we shall be.

1. What Christ was. The Dignity of his Person and Office; that he was the Eternal Son of God, and the Mediator of the New Covenant; the great Prophet whom God would raise up to his People.

(1.) The Dignity of his Person was seen, for the Transfiguration was a Ray of the Divine Glory. It was not the Addition of any Glory to Christ which he had not before, ⟨p. 52⟩but a Manifestation of the Glory which he had, though obscured under the Veil of our Flesh, for the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily; Col. 2. 9. And we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten Son of God, Joh. 1. 14. But it is said, 2 Pet. 1. 17. that he received from God the same Honour and Glory. This is spoken of him as Mediator, the glory of the Son of God Incarnate was so obscured for our sakes, that he needed this Solemn Act to represent him to the World.

(1.) The Dignity of his Person was seen, for the Transfiguration was a Ray of the Divine Glory. It was not the Addition of any Glory to Christ which he had not before, ⟨p. 52⟩but a Manifestation of the Glory which he had, though obscured under the Vail of our Flesh, for the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily;