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Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /
Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late Reverend Tho. Manton ...
London printed : s.n., 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Second is the entertainment which the Apostles gave to this glorious dispensation, or their behaviour under it. Three Things are Observable.
1. Their Posture for some while, and Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. 2. Peters Motion when they were awake, let us build here three Tabernacles. 3. The Censure of it, not knowing what he said.
First, Their Posture after the Transfiguration was begun, and Peter, and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. This sleep might arise either from a common natural cause, or from a special cause peculiar to this dispensation.
1. A common natural cause, being tired with labour in ascending the Mountain, for it was [Greek or Hebrew], exceeding high. Or it was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.
1. A common natural cause, being tyred with labour in ascending the Mountain, for it was , exceeding high. Or it was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.