58 A Commentary upon tbeGlel Chap.g: xuvotµia. Pe,t will have k, the Lordofflyes, becaufe thefly is noted for an impu- tur apud vat. dent creature,that will loon return to the bai't,though beatenaway de iumpro e r but erewhile. Hence thole many bickerings and buffetings we de mufcæ meet with allour life long : and hence thofe (harpeft encounters pervicacer and terrible conßids many times at the hour of death. TheIf. (uat,&c. raelires met with many tryals and troubles in the wiiderneffe: Ccel.tib,9 co Amalec and the e/Imorites, fore thirft, and fiery ferpents, &c. ' but were neverfo put too't,as when they came to take pofírifion of the promifed land, for then all the Kings of eanaan combined to keep themout. So the devil, furious enough at all times, moft of all befl:irrs him at laft calf, becaufe he knows his time is but fhort, Apoc.I 2.12. For death fets a Saint out of his gun-fhot. Sa- tan may compaffe theearth, but not enter the lilts of heaven. He tempted Adam in the earthly Paradife, he cannot tempt in the heaveniy.Hence his malice whileshe may.Morientium nempé be. ßiarumviolentiores font morf .r, (ut ille olim de femidiruta Car- ahagine:) Beaus thathave their deaths -wound bite cruelly, fprunt exceedingly. :Tvege,v. Verle 3. Then came unto him the Tempter] Socalled,becaufe he politikely feelsour polies which way they beat, and according- ly fitsAus apeny-worth. He.fetts a wedge ofgold before covetous .Achan, acourtezan Coz6i before a voluptuous.Zimri, a fair pre- ferment before an ambitious Abfolom : and findes well that a fit ohjed is halfa victory. Sodealt his agents with tholeancient Chri- Ucb.: 1.37. ítians, i7re'la .7uc,iztieq9asov, they were /wn ofnder, they were tempted, faith the Apofile to wit, with the proffers of prefer- ment, would they but have renounced their religion, and done fa- crifice toan Idol. So the Pope temptedLuther with wealthand honour. But all in vain : he turned him toGod, Et valde prote. fiatuu r m, faith he,menolletic Fetiari abeo, he Paid flat,that God tetch,Alaxa, fhouldnot put himoffwith thefe low things. Here was a man full of the Spirit c fChrift. The temptercame to Chrifi, but found no- thing in him ; that matter wasnot malleable. Invain (hall the de- vill ftrike fire,if we finde not tinder : In vain (hill he knot-kat the door, ifwe look not our to him at the window. Let us but divorce the flefh from the world, and the devil can dous no hurt. Ita cave tibi, setcavcas teipfm.From that naughty man my felf,good Lord deliver me,faid one. If thou be the Son of God] As the divel quarrel'd andque- ftioned the Law given in Paradife, as nought, or nuaght : fo doth he
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