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

Some think it was preserved from putrefaction by the extraordinary power of God, that he might resume it at this time. The Jews say that God sucked out Moses soul from his body with a kiss, and afterwards restored it again, and so he liveth in immortality; but he that looketh for Divinity among the Jewish Rabbins will much sooner find a ridiculous Fable, then any sound Doctrine; suffice it to us that he was really dead, and buried, and his body mouldered into dust, as our bodies are, and now on this special occasion, raised out of the dust, but after this whether it were laid down in dust again, or carried into Heaven it is not for us to determine, it may be either according to the Analogy of the Christian Faith: if his body returned to corruption again, surely it is a great honour that it was raised up for this special use, I say it was a great joy to these Prophets to see all their predictions fulfilled in Christ. If we say it entered into Glory? what inconvenience was there; If God would indulge him this peculiar Prerogative to be raised from the dead, and enjoy blessedness both in soul and body before the last day. He granted it to Enoch ⟨p. 67⟩and Elijah, and those who came out of their Graves after Christs death, Matth. 27. 53. the great Harvest is at the last day, but some first-fruits before.

Some think it was preserved from putrefaction by the extraordinary power of God, that he might resume it at this time. The Jews say that God sucked out Moses soul from his body with a kiss, and afterwards restored it again, and so he liveth in immortality; but he that looketh for Divinity among the Jewish Rabbins will much sooner find a ridiculous Fable, then any sound Doctrine; suffice it to us that he was really dead, and buryed, and his body mouldred into dust, as our bodies are, and now on this special occasion, raised out of the dust, but after this whether it were laid down in dust again, or carryed into Heaven it is not for us to determine, it may be either according to the Analogy of the Christian Faith: if his body returned to corruption again, surely it is a great honour that it was raised up for this special use, I say it was a great joy to these Prophets to see all their predictions fulfilled in Christ. If we say it entered into Glory? what inconvenience was there; If God would indulge him this peculiar Prerogative to be raised from the dead, and enjoy blessedness both in soul and body before the last day. He granted it to Enoch