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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.
Secondly, Their carriage when they were awake, when they awaked they saw his Glory, and the two men that stood with them, they saw Christ transfigured before they fell asleep, but I think they saw not Moses and Elijah before, but now saw them, that they might give testimony of it to the Church, not by common fame, and hear say, but as eye Witnesses, and they knew Moses and Elijah either by information from Christ, or some secret instinct and Revelation of the Spirit, or as hearing some part ⟨p. 98⟩of the discourse they heard enough to show what they were, or what the general matter of their discourse was. But that which is most remarkable is Peters motion and proposal, It came to pass to pass as they departed from him, just as they were parting Peter said, Lord it is good for us to be here, let us make three Tabernacles, one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. He mentioned no distinct Tabernacle for himself and fellow Disciples, because they would be with Christ attending on their Master in his Tent.
Secondly, Their carriage when they were awake, when they awaked they saw his Glory, and the two men that stood with them, they saw Christ transfigured before they fell asleep, but I think they saw not Moses and Elias before, but now saw them, that they might give testimony of it to the Church, not by common fame, and hear say, but as eye Witnesses, and they knew Moses and Elias either by information from Christ, or some secret instinct and Revelation of the Spirit, or as hearing some part ⟨p. 98⟩of the discourse they heard enough to shew what they were, or what the general matter of their discourse was. But that which is most remarkable is Peters motion and proposal, It came to pass to pass as they departed from him, just as they were parting Peter said, Lord it is good for us to be here, let us make three Tabernacles, one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias. He mentioned no distinct Tabernacle for himself and fellow Disciples, because they would be with Christ attending on their Master in his Tent.