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

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, Ezek. 1. 28. When I saw the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of God, I fell on my face; Paul when Christ appeared to him from Heaven, he fell to the Earth, Acts 9. 4. Rev. 1. 17. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. Abraham was cast into great horror, Gen. 15. 12. when God appeared solemnly to enter into Covenant with him. So Isa. 6. 5. Then I said, woe is me, for I am undone. So Daniel chap. 10. 8. 9