56 A Commentary upon the Go el Chap.q, Mat.,ys, faling into flafling, Zech.8.19. The devil took' advantage of the place heretoaffault our Saviour in the defers, but was beaten on hi. own dunghill ; that we might overcome through him that love(' us, Rom.S. the fiend being already foiledby Chrift. To be temptedofthe devil ] No fooner was Chrift out of th. water of Raptifne,then in the fire ofTemptation. NoDavid,afte` his anointing,was hunted as apartridge upon the mountains. J/rae, is no fooner out of Egypt, then Pharaoh purfues them : Hizekiah no fooner had kept that folemn Pafleover, then Sennacherib comes up againft him. Sc `Paul is affaulted with vile temptations after the abundance of his revelations : And Chrift teacheth us, after tor- givenefíe of fins obtained, to look for temptations, and topray a- gainft them. Whiles Jacob would be Labans drudge and pack - horfe,all was well ; but when once he began to flee, he makes after A& 19.ß ;. himwith all his might. All was jolly quiet at Ephefus before S.Pau/came thither, but then, there arofe no (mall fiir about that way. All the while our Saviourlay in his fathers fhop, and medled only with Carpenterschipps,the devil troubled him not. But now aHaSw of that he is to enter morepublikely upon his office of Mediarour_ be-eye, o pierce (hip, the tempter pierceth his tender foul with many forrows, by thorow. follicitation to fin. And dealt he fo with the green tree, that will he do with thedry ? Temptations ( betides thofe that come from God, which are only probationis, not perditiones,as theother) are of two forts : for either they are of feducement, lam. L. 15. or of 7rrirß,renr , buffeting and grievance, 2 Car. i z 7. either of allurement or af- rmicula,_ frightment. 1n the former we are prefledwith tome darling cor- ra. ruption, whereto cur appetites by nature or moth propenfe : In the later, we are dogged with fouleft lufts ofAtheifine, Idolatry, blafphemy, murther,erc. that Nature flanks at : In thefe the de- vil temptsalone, and that fo groffely,that thevery flefh is afhamed of it.But in the former, that came more immediatly from the flefh, the devil only interpofeth himfelf, and (peaks his good word for them : whence they are called mefengers of Satan, 2 Coraz. andEph.4.26. we are Laid in anger to giveplace to thedevil : and in refittingoflulls, We refill the devil, J.m.4. ?. Verle 2. And when he hadfafiedtarty defies &e.] All Chrifts miens are for our inftruélion not all for our imitation. Wemay not imitate the works miraculous ofChrift, and proper tohim as media tour. The ignorance of this caufed fome to counterfeit them- selves Chritls : as oneMoor in K.Edward the firths time,and one Hacket : Cor1a, hlat.6.1;.
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