44 A Commentary upon the Go(ei Chap.17, CHA p. X.V.II. Verfe 1. Andafter fix dale,]', Luk.9.z8, j 7Ike faith, about eight. daies after. Itcomes.alltoone. - Eor Martrezv puts exclufively tholedales only that went between, and were. fini[hed : but Luke, puts the twoutnioft dales alío, in- to the. reckoning. eft" mketh Peter 7,ámes and 7òhn ] So Matth: g. whenhe rai(ed the da.nofell he took with him thefe three only : haply as belt beloved, becaule bold : Boanergeffes, more zealous then the rat: , orthebetter to fit them for further trial! : great feelings-óft .precede great affli Lions. Howfoever, it is no (mall favour of God tomake us witncffes ofhis great works, and fo let us take it. As all 1fr4e1 might Le Mofes go toward the Rockof Rephidim None but the Elders might fee him ftrike it. That God crucifies his Sonne before us, that he fetcheth the true water of lifeout of the Rock in our fight, is an high prerogative. Andno lefle lurtly, that we are of tiboues tranfporced in prayer, carried out of the bo_ dy in divine meditation, and loft in theendleffe maie of fpirituall ravifhments; that we retorne from the publike ordinances as Mofes did from the mount, with our faces íhining ; that we are transfigured, and transformed into the fame image from glory to glory, and that the Angell of . the covenant lothwondreufly, du- ring the time of the facriñce, whiles Manoah and his wife lookon, Vic. Their are fpeciall priviledges communicated to-none but the communion of. Saints. eAadbringeth them up into am high mountain ] The name of this mountain no Evangeliftscxprefleth: but by common con- ''è'"'ò 4 da lent it was mount Taber (which yofephve ealleth Itabirion ) Kett ru laic® whereofHierons writeth copioufly and elegantly in his commen- eap.a. tary upon the fifth of Ikea., Our Saviour, when he had fume fpeciall work co do, went ufually up intoa mountain ; to teachus Jr() foar a loft in great perf'orinances efpecially, and to be heavenly. minded, taking a turn or two ever and anon, with Chrilt in mount Tabor, treading upon the .Moon, with the Church, Rev. 12. r. having our feet at leaft where other mens heads are, on things on earth,.( Prov.I5.24. The, way of lift is above to the wife) delighting our (elves in high flying, as Eagles, never merry tiffgotten Into theaire.or on. the topof trees, with the leffer birds. Z.acheua.
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