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

7. It is an instructive pattern to us, that Christ in the midst of his Transfiguration, and the Glory, which was then put upon him forgot not his Death. In the greatest advancements we should think of our desolation, if Christ in all his Glory discoursed of his death, surely it more becometh us, as necessary for us to prevent the surfeit of Worldly pleasures; we should think of the change that is coming, For surely every man at his best estate is vanity, Psalm 39. 5. In some places they were wont to present a deaths head at their solemn Feasts; merry days will not always last, death will soon put an end to the vain pleasures we enjoy here, and the most shining glory will be burnt out to a snuff.

7. It is an instructive pattern to us, that Christ in the midst of his Transfiguration, and the Glory, which was then put upon him forgat not his Death. In the greatest advancements we should think of our desolution, if Christ in all his Glory discoursed of his death, surely it more becommeth us, as necessary for us to prevent the surfeit of Worldly pleasures; we should think of the change that is comming, For surely every man at his best estate is vanity, Psalm 39. 5. In some places they were wont to present a deaths head at their solemn Feasts; merry dayes will not alwayes last, death will soon put an end to the vain pleasures we enjoy here, and the most shining glory will be burnt out to a snuff.

2. The notion by which his Death is expressed, his decease [Greek or Hebrew], which signifies the going out of this Life into another, which is to be noted.

2. The notion by which his Death is expressed, his decease 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which signifies the going out of this Life into another, which is to be noted.