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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

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 D. D. Preacher in Ordinary to Her MAJESTY Published by Her Majesty's Command LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Fryers MDCLXXXVIII A SERMON OF THE Transfiguration of our LORD Preach'd on the Second Sunday in Lent. Assumit Jesus Petrum Jacobum Joannem fratrem ejus ducit illos in Montem excelsum seorsum transfiguratus est ante eos Matth. 17. 1. Jesus taking Peter and James and John his brother leadeth them into a high Mountain apart and was transfigured before them IN the last Sundays Gospel as St. Matthew relates the Devil took our Savior up into an exceeding high Mountain to shew him all the Kingdoms of the World and the Glory of them In this present Gospel our Savior himself leads three of his Disciples into another high Mountain to give them a Prospect of the Glory which is prepared for the Just in Heaven Opposing Mountain to Mountain and Glory to Glory the Glory of Heaven to that of Earth to defeat the designs of the Tempter by the same method he had made use of to overcome But as the Objects were different and the Mountains too the one deservedly call'd by Historians Mons Satanae the Devil's Mount for having been the Theatre of his greatest Temptation the other by St. Peter Mons Sanctus the Holy Mount for the excellent Glory which was represented on it so was the manner of ascending them different also For whereas the Devil as St. Matthew says took our Savior up into an exceeding high Mountain that is according to the Explication best agreeing with the Context carried him through the Air as an Angel had formerly done Habacuch without giving him the least trouble or pain to ascend the same St. Matthew tells us that our Savior did not so with his Disciples but that he led them up duxit illos that is went himself before them and caused them to follow him on foot to give us to understand that the Way to Perdition is pleasant and easie ducunt in bonis dies suos those who walk in it pass their time in mirth and jollity Job 21. 12. But the Way to true Glory is hard and difficult Strait is the Gate and narrow the Way which leadeth unto Life Matth. 7. 14. But how strait and narrow how hard and difficult soever it be the greatness of the Reward more than recompences the Labor of acquiring it as appears by what passed with the Disciples of my Text for being arrived at the top of the Mountain our Savior there became transfigured before them so that the brightness of his Face vy'd with that of the Sun in his richest Attire of Light and the whiteness of his Garments with that of the Snow when array'd in its whitest Dress Which of Us Dear Christians had he been present at this Glorious sight would not have cry'd out with St. Peter Domine bonum est nos hic esse Lord it is good for us to be here And who is there of us now that is not inflam'd with a holy Desire or as I may call it Curiosity as Moses was when he beheld the burning Bush to know how it came to pass that the Body of our Savior which till then had appeared different in nothing from the Bodies of other Men should be suddenly invested with a brightness like that of the Sun and what End or Design he had in the doing of it To satisfie this two-fold demand of how and why he would be thus transfigured is what I have design'd for the Subject of my present Discourse and accordingly shall divide it into Two Parts In the First I shall give you an Account as God shall enable me of the Mystery it self that is how it came to pass that the Body of our Savior was so transfigured that it became bright and shining as the Sun. In the Second why he would work this wonderful change in his Face and Garments and that in the sight of his Disciples Et transfiguratus est ante eos And he was transfigured before them or in their sight Whil'st the Disciples were absorpt with wonder at this Glorious Spectacle the Evangelist says that a bright Cloud over-shadowed them which Cloud St. Augustin says was a Symbol of the Holy Ghost in which he appeared as he formerly had done in the Figure of a Dove at our Savior's Baptism to Grace the Solemnity with his Presence That the Assistance of this Divine Spirit may not be wanting whil'st we treat of this Glorious Mystery let us humbly implore it by the Intercession of that Sacred Mother who in the Conception of her Son was over-shadow'd by the same Divine Spirit Ave Maria. The First Part. Et transfiguratus est And he was transfigured TO give an Account how the Body of our Savior was so transfigured as to become bright and shining as the Sun it will be necessary to enquire into the meaning of the word Transfiguration When we say a thing is disfigured every one understands the meaning of it but if we say a thing is transfigured the sense is not so easie and obvious to all at least to the Unlearned as not to require some Explication Which yet I shall endeavor to manage so that whil'st I am instructing those of the lowest Form such as are in a higher Class may not lose their time remembring with the great Apostle that I am a Debtor to both Sapientibus insipientibus debitor sum A thing then is said to be transfigured according to the proper acceptation of the word when its Shape or Figure not its Essence is alter'd so that it puts on another appearance more Noble and Glorious than it had before for the Particle trans here signifies an excess or passing beyond or above what is commonly and usually found in the Thing An Example of this we have in a Cloud which of it self is nothing but a dark Vapor or Mist exhaled from the Bowels of the Earth yet dark and misty as it is no sooner is it penetrated by the Rays of the Sun but presently it becomes bright and shining and what before seem'd a black Veil which muffled the Light of that Glorious Planet having now drank in his Beams is transform'd into a radiant Mirror in which he seems to rejoyce to behold himself so gloriously reflected This change of the Cloud so much for the better may fitly be called its Transfiguration and gives us tho' not a Parallel yet a glimpse at least of what passed in the Transfiguration of our Savior when his Body till then dark and obscure like those of other men became bright and shining like the Sun. But now because this Transfiguration