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

2. His Touch. He touched them. Christs Touch is powerful, and a means of Application. Usually thus Christ conveyed and applied his Power, Mat. 8. 3. He touched the leper and cleansed him. Mat. 8. 15. He touched Peters wives mother, and cured her of a fever. So Matth. 9. 19. He touched the two blind men, and they received their sight; ⟨p. 202⟩and in many other places, so this touching of the Apostles, was to apply his Power, and to recover them out of their Trance.

2. His Touch. He touched them. Christs Touch is powerful, and a means of Application. Usually thus Christ conveyed and applyed his Power, Mat. 8. 3. He touched the leper and cleansed him. Mat. 8. 15. He touched Peters wives mother, and cured her of a fever. So Matth. 9. 19. He touched the two blind men, and they received their sight; ⟨p. 202⟩and in many other places, so this touching of the Apostles, was to apply his Power, and to recover them out of their Trance.

3. His Speech. And said, arise and be not afraid; The glorious voice of the Father affrights them, and the gracious voice of the Son reviveth and refresheth them. He comforts those whom the terrors of the Almighty had cast down, he doth not chide them for their fear or little Faith, as he doth at other times, he considered the greatness of the Cause, their natural Infirmity: the governing of which was not in their power, and the terribleness and suddenness left no time for deliberation; therefore he doth not chide them, but encourageth them. The like was done in other cases, as to Ezekiel in his Trance,