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

1. For Confutation of the Jews, and to show their obstinacy in not receiving Christ as the Messiah, God had told Moses, Deut. 18. 18. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, and will put my words into his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him, and whosoever will not hearken unto him, I will require it of him. Which cannot be understood of any other Prophet, but Christ the Messiah, for it is said, Deut. 34. 10, 11. There arose not a Prophet in Israel like unto Moses who knew the Lord face to face in all the miracles and wonders which the Lord sent him to do. But the Messiah doth match and overmatch him, he was a Man as Moses was; for the Promise was made on that occasion, let me hear the Voice of the Lord God no more, nor see this great Fire, that we dye not; saith God, they have well spoken, I will raise up a Prophet like unto thee from among their Brethren; he must be a Lawgiver as Moses, but of a more perfect Law; he must be such an One as should see God face to face; he is of a Divine Nature, approved to the World by Miracles, Signs and Wonders. As Moses was, so Christ; Moses ⟨p. 80⟩divided the Sea as dry Land, Christ walked upon it; Moses healed the bitter Waters that were sick, Christ raised the dead: All the prejudice is, that he changed the Law of Moses into the Rites and Institutes of the Christian Religion. Answ. That was necessary the substance being once come, that the Shadows and Ceremonies should be abolished; and besides, these were proper and peculiar to one Nation in the World, namely Judea; the Exercise permitted but in one only place of that Country, namely Jerusalem; whither they were all to repair three times each year; but the Messiah Law was to be common to all men, serves for all Countries, Times, Places, Persons, for he was to be the Light of the Gentiles as well as the Glory of his people Israel, how should Nations so far distant from Jerusalem repair thrice every year; or a Woman dwelling in England or America repair thither for purification after every Child-birth, Lev. 12. When Moses delivered the Law to them, Deut. 18. 15