4. To compensate for our defects by His superabundant merits.
Sermon V.—Pious exercises for the season of Lent.
1. The exercise of fasting; set before us by the example of Moses and Elias, each of whom fasted during forty days.
2. The exercise of prayer; set before us by the example of Christ, who was transfigured “as He prayed.” (Luke ix. 29.)
3. The exercise of conversion; set before us by Christ’s raiment becoming white and glistering; teaching us that we must wash our robes, and make them white in the blood of the Lamb.
4. The exercise of making devout use of God’s Word; “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.”
5. The exercise of the memory of Christ’s passion; by the example of Moses and Elias talking with Him of “His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem.”
6. The exercise of present opportunities of grace, before the cloud obscures Christ, and ye desire “to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and shall not see it.”
Sermon VI.—The transfiguration of Satan into an angel of light, and how he deceives men.