Chap, i 7. according to !ÌT T H E V T. Zacheus couldnot fee Chrifc till he had climbed the figtree. Nor canwe fee the Confolation of Ifrael till elevated in divinecontem- plationtill gotten up intoGods holy hill. The people rafted not Mannah, till theyhad left the leavenof Egypt. And Was transfigured before them ] This was whiles hewas praying, as St Luke noteth. Prayerrightly perf`orrned,is a parting svzLuçK WET- with God, I Tim.a.I. a ffanding upon lntergatories with him, f Q ux I Per.3. 24. a powring out of the heart unto him, Pfal.ó z 8, a familiar conferencewith him ; wherein the foul is fo carried be- yond it feifotherwhiles, ut Caro eft pené nefcia carnis, as Sr Hìe- in regut, fan?. rom fpeaksofcertain holy women in his time, that they feelned in' place only remote, but in affeétiori to joyn with that holy comp parryofheaven. So Dr Prefton on his death-bed Paid, he fhould change his place, but not his eómpany. Peter prayingfell inch a trance. Cornelius praying faw heavenly vifions. Mr Bradford, See the 1x'efice a littlebefore hewent out of the Cqunter, praidwith Inch plenty to his err. t,re oftears andabundanapirit of prayer, that it ravifhed the minder ofGods Aura. of the hearers. Allo when he fhif tedhimfelf in a clean shirt made bates. for his burning, he made filch a prayer óf the wedding garment, that the des of chofeprefenc Were as truly occupied inlooking on Ail and broil. him, as their ears gave place to herehis prayer. Geles of Bru(jcls fó.e45 s. IvlGrrr,was fo ardent in his prayers, kneelingby himfelîin-fo.ne - fecrct Tlaceof the prifon, that he feemed to forget himfèlf. Be- ing called many times to meat, he neither heard nor-law them mid fot.8 G I. that flood by him, till he was lift up by the armes : and then gent- ly hewould (peak unto them, as one awaked out ofa deep ildep. Amor D ei eft ec/taiicess-fiai netfe fnit ef'e juris. -- Verfe 3. Mofes and Elias appeared] Thofe immortalitatee Candidate, as the Ancien:s called them. Jod had buried Mofes, but brought him forth afterwards glorious: the fame body which was hid in the vallie of Moab, appearethhere in the hill of Tabor. Chrifl by rotting,refines our bodies alto and we know that when he, Who is our life, fhall appear, then(hall We all appear Withhim inglory, Colof 3 4. As'in the mean fpace, be not we conformed to this world, but rather transformed by the renewing of cur mindes : and in whatfoever transfiguration or.ra'vith:nent we can- not findeMofes and Eras and Chrift tomeet (as here they did in a ,n,.G:,z. this facred Synod) that is, if what we finde in us be not agreeable to the Scriptures, wemay well fufpea it a's an iltufìon. Verfe-4. Lórd,tt itgoodfir res to be here-] Hicp>!xrra Rl f rda Gg 3 le him 4
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