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

But you will say, if two men must appear in glorified Bodies, why not Enoch rather then Moses, who was translated into Heaven, and remaineth there with a glorified Body as well as Elijah.

But you will say, if two men must appear in glorified Bodies, why not Enoch rather then Moses, who was translated into Heaven, and remaineth there with a glorified Body as well as Elias.

Answ. Enoch had no public charge, Enoch lived before the legal dispensation, these both belonged to it, and were chief in it, of great Authority among the Jews, Enoch hath an honourable Testimony in the Word of God, but had no public office and charge in the Church, which the other two had, and managed with great Fidelity. By the appearance of Moses the whole legal Economy is supposed to appear in his Person, and by the appearance of Elijah, the Prophetical Ministry, which was a kind of Chancery to the Law, is supposed to appear also. Both do as it were deliver over to Christ their whole dispensation, and lay it down at his feet, as the Magistrates that are to go out of office, solemnly resign the ensigns of their Authority to him that succeedeth, and also they come both to reverence the majesty of their supreme Lord. In short it is for our comfort that one that died, and one alive in glory, should come to show that Christ is Lord of quick and dead, Rom. 14. 9. Moses was dead, Elijah translated, these two come the one to give a ⟨p. 64⟩pledge of the glory of the World to come; the other of the Resurrection of the dead; which is the way and introduction to it; and both these persons come to attend and adore our Saviour, and do homage to him.

Answ. Enoch had no publick charge, Enoch lived before the legal dispensation, these both belonged to it, and were chief in it, of great Authority among the Jews, Enoch hath an honourable Testimony in the Word of God, but had no publick office and charge in the Church, which the other two had, and managed with great Fidelity. By the appearance of Moses the whole legal Oeconomy is supposed to appear in his Person, and by the appearance of Elias, the Prophetical Ministry, which was a kind of Chancery to the Law, is supposed to appear also. Both do as it were deliver over to Christ their whole dispensation, and lay it down at his feet, as the Magistrates that are to go out of office, solemnly resign the ensigns of their Authority to him that succeedeth, and also they come both to reverence the majesty of their supream Lord. In short it is for our comfort that one that died, and one alive in glory, should come to shew that Christ is Lord of quick and dead,