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

Why is it mentioned there.

1. To show the special dignity of Christ above all others: he is the Son of God, Christians are the Sons of God, but in a different manner, he by nature, we by Adoption. Tho God have many sons by Creation and Adoption, yet Christ is his Son in a peculiar & proper way; by eternal Generation, and communication of the same Essence, [Greek or Hebrew] that Son, that beloved Son, so a Son as none else is the son of God, properly so called.

1. To shew the special dignity of Christ above all others: he is the Son of God, Christians are the Sons of God, but in a different manner, he by nature, we by Adoption. Tho God have many sonsby Creation and Adoption, yet Christ is his Son in a peculiar & proper way; by eternal Generation, and communication of the same Essence, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that Son, that beloved Son, so a Son as none else is the son of God, properly so called.

2. To distinguish him from Moses and the Prophets, from Moses Heb. 3. 5, 6. Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant, but Christ as a son over his own house, whose house we are, &c. so from the rest of the Prophets, Heb. 1. 1, 2. God at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the Prophets, but hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the World. This is the great Doctor of the Church, now as to meekness above ⟨p. 133⟩