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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.
SERMON. V.
MATTH. 17. 5. While he yet spake, behold, a bright Cloud overshadowed him: and behold, a voice out of the Cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
IN this branch of the story two things are remarkable, and there is a Behold prefixed before either of them, to excite our Attention. First they see a bright Cloud, and then they hear a voice out of the Cloud.
First, Of the Cloud, and while he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, it was not a dark cloud as upon Mount Sinai, when God gave the Law, but a bright one, yet not so bright and lightsome, but that it was mixed with some obscurity. It was no natural and ordinary cloud, such as are commonly ⟨p. 128⟩engendered in the air above us, but extraordinary, and supernatural, created by God for this occasion. The use of it was double.