The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.

Of Christ's Transfiguration; and first, of the four Orders of men that were found there.

IN this occurrence so illustrious, there were, 1 Living men that were to die. 2 One that had been dead, and was re∣turned to life again. 3 One that never died, and yet ascended bodily into Hea∣ven. 4. One that was to die, and to re∣turn to life again, and bodily to ascend into Heaven.

The living persons that were to die were the three Apostles, that accompani'd our Lord.

He that had been dead, and was return'd to life again, was Moses.

He that had never died, and yet was bodily ascended into Heaven, was Elijah.

He that was to die, and return to life, and bodily to ascend into Heaven, was Jesus Christ himself.

That Assembly was the Epitome of the universal Church, considered in divers conditions, and at several times.

1. The three Apostles, that were yet subject to persecutions, and to death, re∣presented the Church, as 'tis yet Militant.

2. He that had been dead and was re∣turned to life, represented the Believers, who shall rise at the last day.

3. He that was ascended into Heaven, without tasting death, represented those that shall he found alive at the last day, and shall not die, but shall be changed.

4. All these three Orders hold of Jesus Christ, who is the head of the Church, both of the living and the dead; of those that shall rise, and of those that shall be changed. In the persons of those that have appeared at his Transfiguration, the whole Church hath appeared before him, with∣out whom, that Assembly could not be complete, nor yet framed.