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

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was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.

2. The special cause of this sleep was the extraordinary Apparition, as the Prophets often were in a deep sleep and trance, when ⟨p. 94⟩they saw the like, Dan. 8. 18. As the Angel Gabriel was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face towards the ground. Again Dan. 10. 9. When I heard his voice, then was I in a deep sleep. So the Prophet Zechariah in the midst of his Visions, Zech. 4. 1