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

USES.

1. Of Conviction, to the carnal Christian for not submitting to Christs Authority. All Christians do it in pretence, but few that do it in reality. Doth his Word come to you, not only in Word but in Power?

1. Do you seriously come to him that you may have pardon, and life. When Christ had proved that he was the Son of God, the great Prophet of the Church, by the testimony of John, the testimony of his works, the testimony of his Father, and the testimony of the Scriptures, John 5. 40. And ye will not come unto me that ye ⟨p. 176⟩may have Life, though John, his Works, the Father, the Scriptures, will prove him to be what he was, the Messiah; the Saviour; and Redeemer of the World; yet they would not come to him, nor believe, but wilfully rejected him, and their own blessedness: What the Jews did wilfully, carnal Christians do lazily, they prize his Name and slight his Office, do not come to him to be taught, sanctified and drawn to God.

1. Do you seriously come to him that you may have pardon, and life. When Christ had proved that he was the Son of God, the great Prophet of the Church, by the testimony of Iohn, the testimony of his works, the testimony of his Father, and the testimony of the Scriptures, Iohn 5. 40. And ye will not come unto me that ye ⟨p. 176⟩may have Life, though Iohn, his Works, the Father, the Scriptures, will prove him to be what he was, the Messias; the Saviour; and Redeemer of the World; yet they would not come to him, nor believe, but wilfully rejected him, and their own blessedness: What the Jews did wilfully, carnal Christians do lazily, they prize his Name and slight his Office, do not come to him to be taught, sanctified and drawn to God.