Chap.4. according to St MA T T H a VV. arms ( as,Simeon did, and as Themiflecles did the Kingof Perfaes childe) and he cannot but fmile uponus. Were he never fo much di(pleated before, yet upon the fight ofthis his wellbeloved Son, in whom heis well pleafed, all ¡ballbe calm andquiet, as the feawas, when once Ionia was caft into it. 55 CHAP. IIII. Verle r. ThenWas Iefou ledup Eft haply the people, hearing that tefiimony from Heaven, ( houldcome and take him by force to make him a King, as Ioha 6. t5. to try their loves allo tohim,whowas thus overclouded,as the Sun in his firft riling. Ledup of theSpirit] The better to fir him thereby for the mi- eatherue in o natty. Luther obferved of himfelf, that when God wasabout to p?dum //L.bium let him upon any fpeciall fervice, heeither laid fome fit of fickneffe in. upon him before-hand, or turned Satan loofe upon him; who fo :°01dlifumiduir:efitid.. buffeted him (eft-foones) by his temptations, ut nee calor,nec /àn- guis, necf'nfits, nec vox'juperefret, that neither heat, nor blood, ci!lâ, t ' ta,. nor tense, not voice remained : The very venome of the tempra- tiros non deffie . rions drankup his fpirit, and his body Teemed dead,as ruftt14 Ion&, rarâ : quodfibs that was by, and law ir, reported ofhim in his EpiftletoMilan- unfanrt chton. Hence alto it was that in his Sermons, God gave him fuch a quippianj ag- grace(faith M. Fox) that when hepreached, they that heard him grederrtur d:- thought, every one, his own temptations to be teverally touched xtt melchicr and noted. Whereof when fignification was given untohim by his Tara.:fdG s4. friends, and he demanded how that could be ? Mine own mani- Ttet, anda.en. fold temptations ( faith he) and experiences are the caufe thereof: fol 7 59. For from his tender years he was much beaten and exercifed with fpirituall confiiEts, as lllelanchton in his life teftifieth. AlfoHiero- nymus Wellerus, fcholar to the laid M. Luther recordeth, that he oftentimes heardLuther his Matter report ofhimfelf, that he had been affaulted and vexed with all kinde oftemptations(favingonly TL 3ppearcth with that of covetoufneffe,) and was thereby fitted for the work by S. MOrle, ofthe Lord. Whence all() he was wont to fay, that three things that no men make a Preacher,Meditation,Prayerand Temptation. wcre in this Into the Wildernejfe ] Likely the wilderneile of Sinai, where W`aderneffe, Mo/es and Elias had fatted before. Thefe three great falters, met belf , wilde afterwards in mount Tabor : God promifeth to turn his peoples MVlar.i.t;, i E4 faflin
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