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

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was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.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was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in Prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his Agonies, he was Transfigured before them.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. The Angel of the Lord wakened me as one in a deep sleep, any eminent passion causeth sleep, and they were astonished so with these visions and representations, that nature fainted under them, and they fell into a sleep, so the Apostles seeing Christ in the midst of fervent Prayers Transfigured before them.