Chap. I .SeCl,4 Louking unto :.ft'[tls. Book. IV. pretence ofbaptifme only with fire! Chrifi (we fee) hath joyned them together, and let no man feperate them a funder; Chrift himfelfwas baptized with fire, and yet Chrifi himfelf was baptiz.~ ed with water. ---------------~ SECT. 4· Of thefafting and temptation ofChrift. 3· FOr the fafl:ing and temptationof Chrift in the wildernefs. 319 No fooner is Chrift come out of the water of baptifme~ but he prefently enters into the fire of temptation; no iooner is the holy Spirit defcended upon his head, but he is h:d by the fame holy ~pirit to be tempted in the wilder~efs; no fooner doth God fay this is my Sonne; but Sathan puts It to the quefiion, if thou b·e the Sonne of Ged; ail thefe are but Chrifts preparatives to his prophetical office; in the former feCl:ion, Chrift was prepared by a folemn confecration, and now he is to be further prepared by Sathans ternptations; there is much in this particular, and therefore in the fame method as the Evangelift layes it down, UUatth. 4· r, 2, 3. to v. r 2. I fhall proceed. Then wat]efos led up of the fpirit into the wilderne{s to be tempt-edofthe devil, &c. Matth, 4• · ~~ ri In the whole we may obferve thefe feveral branches, as firft, the v. n~ place where the tern pation was, to wit,the wilderneffe: Secondly, tbe caufe ofChrifts going into the wilderneffe, the JPirits leading; 'Thirdly,the end of the fpirits leading Chrift into the wilderneffe, to be tempted of the Devil. Fourthly, the time and occafion ofthe devils onfet , at the end of fourty dayes faft, andwhen he was an hun gmt. Fifthly ,the temptations themfdves which are in numd her three, to which are added as many victories, which Chrill: had over the tempter; who therefore left him~ tJnd fo the Angelr came, and minifired unto him. I {hall begin firft with the place where the temptation was, to wit, in the wi!derne{[e. This wilderneffe was not that fame wilderneffe, <1r not that {arne place of the wilderneffe wherein rohn Baptifl: lived, Mat.3. I. for that wherein T' hn Baptift lived was a place inhabited, there was in that place Cities and 'I ownes, and a number ofpeople to C.tc z whom
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