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

MATTH. 17. 6, 7, 8. And when the Disciples heard it they fell on their faces, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, arise be not afraid. And when they had lift up their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus only.

MATTH. 17. 6, 7, 8. And when the Disciples heard it they fell on their faces, and were sore afraid. And Iesus came and touched them, and said, arise be not afraid. And when they had lift up their eyes, they saw no man save Iesus onely.

IN this part of the History are Three Things. 1. The Disciples Fear and Astonishment, verse 6. 2. Their Comfortable and Gracious recovery by Christ, verse 7. 3. The Event and Issue of all, verse 8.

1. Their Astonishment, they fell on their faces and were sore afraid; their falling on their faces was not out of Worship, and Reverence, ⟨p. 183⟩but consternation, as those John 18. 6. As soon as he said to them I am he, they went backward and fell to the ground. The causes of their fear must be enquired into. These were holy men, the flower of Christs Disciples; they were men in an holy action, for Belshazzar in his cups to tremble were no news, they were not in the presence of an angry God, it was a Gospel-voice that they heard, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him. They had not a full dispensation of his glory, but only a glimpse of it, and that under a cloud and revealed in Mercy; yet they were sore afraid. Upon any Visions and Apparitions of the divine Majesty, Gods Servants fell to the Earth,