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

2. To be a token of the extraordinary presence of God, whose voice immediately came out of the cloud, as also to veil the glory thereof, which was best done by a Cloud, a thing of a middle nature between terrestrial and Celestial bodies. When Solomon builded the Temple the Lord showed his special presence, thereby filling the House with a Cloud, 1 Kings 8. 10. This way of Apparition God useth to moderate the splendour of his excellent Glory. We are not able to behold God as he is, and must not pry into his Glory, there is a Cloud and veil upon it.

2. To be a token of the extraordinary presence of God, whose voice immediately came out of the cloud, as also to vail the glory thereof, which was best done by a Cloud, a thing of a middle nature between terrestrial and Celestial bodies. When Solomon builded the Temple the Lord shewed his special presence, thereby filling the House with a Cloud, 1 Kings 8. 10. This way of Apparition God useth to moderate the splendor of his excellent Glory. We are not able to behold God as he is, and must not pry into his Glory, there is a Cloud and vail upon it.

Secondly, They heard a Voice, and behold a voice out of the Cloud which said, this ⟨p. 129⟩is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him.

1. Observe, That there was a voice distinctly, and audibly, heard. Though God did sensibly now manifest his presence in the Mount with Christ, and did audibly speak to them, yet he did not appear in any distinct form, and shape either of man, or any other living Creature, but all was done by a voice out of the cloud, so