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

1. Faith, for whosoever cometh to God must fix this principle in his Mind, that God is, Heb. 1. 6. We do not worship God aright if we do not Worship him as Believers, and if we worship him as Believers, we will worship him with reverence, and godly fear. Faith giveth us not only a thought of God, but some kind of sight of God, and sight will leave an impression upon the heart of reverence and seriousness; surely a sight or believing thought of God should be able to do any thing upon the soul. It is the great work of Faith, to see him that is invisible, Heb. 11. 27. We should in our whole conversation live as in his sight, and live as those that remember God standeth by, and seeth all that we are about: but especially in our worship, we then set our selves as before the Lord. Pray as to our Father, that seeth what we do, Mat. 6. 6. Pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. Hear as before the Lord, Acts 10. ⟨p. 198⟩33. We are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. Then the Soul should turn the back upon all other things, that the mind may be taken up with nothing but God.

2. No other worship will become Love. Worship is an act of love and delight. Now love is seen in admiring the Excellencies of that glorious Being whom we love, and ascribing all to him, as being deeply affected with his Goodness, Rev. 4. 10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honour and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. They fell down not out of astonishment but reverence, and cast their Crowns before the Throne. Whatever Honour they have, they had it from God, and are content to lay it at his feet, from whom they have life, and being, and all things. They have such an high esteem of God, that before him they cannot be too vile. They are unworthy to wear any Crown in Gods presence, and are content that their Honour be a footstool to advance and extol his Glory. Certainly those that are heartily affected to God will go about