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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42902	A sermon of the transfiguration of our Lord preach'd before the Queen-Dowager, in her chappel at Somerset-House, on the second Sunday in Lent, 1687/8 / by Thomas Godden.	Godden, Thomas, 1624-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing G922; ESTC R21790	13,937	33

Glory of Heaven and propos'd it as a Reward to all those who should deny themselves and take up their Cross and follow him He had foretold them also that himself would rise again the third day as the first Fruit of those that slept and promis'd that his Followers should shine like the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father And what did all this work upon them If they did not look upon it as a Dream they remained at most but as men awakened out of a deep sleep for St. Luke says in express terms that when he spake to them of his Passion and Resurrection Ipsi nihil horum intellexerunt they understood nothing of these things and what he said affected them no more than if he had spoken in some unknown Language verbum hoc erat absconditum ab eis What remedy then to disengage their Understandings from this stupidity and engage their Wills to labor heartily for Heaven The remedy was and blessed be his Goodness in condescending so graciously to our Weakness to suffer himself to be transfigured before them and by communicating that Glory to his Body which hitherto he had kept restrained within his Soul to give them a sight of that Glory of which he had so often discoursed to them And that they might not doubt but that a participation of the like Glory was designed also for his Servants and Followers he caused Moses and Elias to appear in like Majesty and Brightnes with him The same was also signified in the brightness of his Garments which as St. Thomas observes upon this place were a Type or Figure of the Saints of whom the Prophet Isay saith that he shall cloath himself with them as with a Robe of Glory and wear them for an Ornament in the day of his Nuptials From whence the Devout St. Austin with his wonted Acuteness took occasion to apply those words of holy David He giveth his Snow like Wool the usual matter of which Garments are made to what pass'd in the Transfiguration of our Lord giving us to understand by his appearing then as it were cloathed with Snow what kind of Fleece his Garment of Glory was to be made of that is of those who had washed their Stoles in the Blood of the Lamb and so were become pure and white as Snow or as St. Paul expresses it a Glorious Church without spot or wrinkle without spot as wash'd white in the Blood of the Lamb and without wrinkle as having been extended with him upon the Cross How much more efficaciously the Affections of the Disciples were inflam'd to action by the sight of so Glorious a Reward than by what they had only heard discours'd of it the Transport of St. Peter and the hast he was then in to fall to building of Tabernacles and when that was not permitted as being out of season because before the time the Immense Labors both himself and the rest courageously undertook and cruel Torments they chearfully underwent for the obtaining of it are too well known to be insisted on What concerns our selves Dear Christian Auditors is to imitate the Example of those who as the same St. Peter saith have made known unto us the Power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ having been spectators of his Majesty when they were with him in the Holy Mount and not to suffer our selves to remain so dull and stupid as not to be moved with it When Nehemias had restored the Temple and the Altar he caused the Sacrifices to be sprinkl'd with a thick Water which the Priests had found in a deep and dry Well where their Ancestors had hid the Holy Fire when they went into Captivity The Sun was then in a Cloud and whil'st he remained so the Water also remained as before But as soon as the Sun breake forth out of the Cloud accensus est ignis magnus ita ut omnes mirarentur a great Fire was presently kindl'd to the wonder astonishment of all that beheld it And will it not be a matter of greater Wonder and Astonishment if now that the Sun of Justice after having so long remained under a Cloud has display'd the Beams of his Glory both in his Face and Garments our hearts shall still remain like thick Water that is cold and earthy and not be converted into Fire The consideration of this made Holy David cry out Filii hominem usquequo gravi corde Ye Sons of men how long will you suffer your hearts to lie groveling upon the Earth And why will you spend your days in hunting after the vain and transitory and therefore false and lying Goods of this Life without aspiring to those Eternal and therefore only true and substantial Goods which are prepared for you in Heaven If a Prize be propos'd to be run for of any considerable Value how do those who are to run for it pluck up their Spirits and abstain from all things however otherwise pleasing and dear to them that may hinder them in the Race And if they do this to obtain a corruptible Reward how much more as St. Paul presses the Argument ought we to abstain from all those things that are hurtful and may hinder us in our Course to Heaven since what we contend for is no less than a Crown of never-fading Glory They when they have done their best may miss of what they run for because many run but only one can get the Prize But for the Prize of Heaven every one to use the Apostle's expression that runs lawfully that is keeping the Commandments of God tho' not with equal Swiftness and Perfection for our Savior tells us that in his Father's House there be many Mansions is sure to obtain it Alas Dear Christians had it been our hard Lot to have been born in some Barbarous Nation where there had been no certain Knowledg of the true Reward of Vertue or to have been brought up among the Philosophers of whom St. Augustin reporteth that they had above two hundred different Opinions concerning the last end or Happiness of man not knowing which to fix upon or to prefix to themselves as the Prize they were to run for or the Mark to which they were to direct the course of their Lives and Actions some shadow of excuse might have been pretended by us why we pour'd forth our selves upon the things of this World and plac'd our satisfaction in the enjoyment of them But now that we both know the Prize that we are to run for and that if we run lawfully that is observing the prescribed Rule of God's Law we shall certainly obtain it what can we pretend to save our selves from falling under the Sentence of that Servant who because he knew the will of his Master and did not do it was deem'd worthy not only to be deprived of the Reward but to be beaten with many stripes Let us not deceive our selves One way or other we must be finally