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

1. That God is a God of great Majesty, and ought to be reverenced by all that have to do with him. The point being a matter of sense, and evident by natural light, needeth not to be proved so much as improved.

1. Scripture representeth him as such Dan. 9. 4. He is called the great and dreadful God, so Deut. 7. 21. A Mighty God and terrible, and Nahum 1. 5. A great and terrible God is he, and again Job 37. 22. With God is terrible Majesty.

2. This eminently shineth forth both in his Works of Creation and Providence. 1. Creation, in the stupendous Fabric of the Heavens, Jer. 32. 17, 18, 19. Ah Lord God, behold thou hast made the Heaven, and the Earth by thy great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee, &c. In that mighty Collection of Waters in the Sea, we cannot look upon that vast expansion of the Firmament, that huge body of Waters in the Sea without some religious horror, what is the God that made all this, Jer. 5. 22. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the Sand for a bound to the Sea, by a perpetual ⟨p. 187⟩