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

2. The Providence of God is to be observed in this sleep; that which came to pass through their Fault was ordered by Gods Providence, for if they had been awake they had heard all the discourse that passed between Christ and the two great Prophets, which neither their present condition, nor the state of the time did permit. Christ had told them that he should suffer an ignominious death, which they did not throughly understand, nor could they reconcile it with the present thoughts which they had of the Messiah, nor was it fit for them to hear all, how the death of Christ was foretold in the Prophesies prefigured in the Sacrifices, shadowed out in all the rest of the Types of the Law, and sung of in the book of Psalms to satisfy the Justice of God, and open a way for his Mercy, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christ would not have the great work of his dying hindered, and these things they were not to learn from Moses and Elijah, but he would teach them himself after the Resurrection, Luke 24. 44, 45, 46. These are the words that I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me, ⟨p. 96⟩then opened he their eyes that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day. And the full knowledge of them was reserved till the pouring out of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost: if they had heard them now they would have begotten scruples, and troublesome thoughts in their minds, and hindered the present service.

2. The Providence of God is to be observed in this sleep; that which came to pass through their Fault was ordered by Gods Providence, for if they had been awake they had heard all the discourse that passed between Christ and the two great Prophets, which neither their present condition, nor the state of the time did permit. Christ had told them that he should suffer an ignominious death, which they did not throughly understand, nor could they reconcile it with the present thoughts which they had of the Messiah, nor was it fit for them to hear all, how the death of Christ was foretold in the Prophesies prefigured in the Sacrifices, shadowed out in all the rest of the Types of the Law, and sung of in the book of Psalms to satisfie the Justice of God, and open a way for his Mercy, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christ would not have the great work of his dying hindered, and these things they were not to learn from Moses and Elias, but he would teach them himself after the Resurrection,