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

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.

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 mixt with some obscurity. It was no natural and ordinary cloud, such as are commonly ⟨p. 128⟩engendred in the air above us, but extraordinary, and supernatural, created by God for this occasion. The use of it was double.

1. To convey Moses and Elijah out of their sight, when this conference was ended: therefore some expound that which is said, Luke 9. 34. They feared as they entered into the Cloud after this manner, the Disciples feared when they saw Moses and Elijah entering into the Cloud, that is involved and covered in it. It is said of Jesus Christ himself, when he ascended into Heaven, Acts 1. 9. A cloud received him out of their sight.

1. To convey Moses and Elias out of their sight, when this conference was ended: therefore some expound that which is said, Luke 9. 34. They feared as they entred into the Cloud after this manner, the Disciples feared when they saw Moses and Elias entring into the Cloud, that is involved and covered in it. It is said of Jesus Christ himself, when he ascended into Heaven,