7o L4 Commentary upon the Gofiel Chap.4, ven; like Archimedes his pigeon, equally poized with it's own weight. But why took he our Saviour into fohigh a mountain ? That he might thence have the fairer prcfeeft : And perhaps in imitation of God, taking up Mofes into the Mount. The devil delights to beGods ape, that he Play, by counterfeiting the like toGod, bring his holy Ordinances intodifgrace. Thus the Hea- thenshad their facrifices, wathings, tithes, oracles, &c. V tru.. vice andothers tell us,that the Temple of Diana at Ephefty, and her image therein, were made of Cedar. So for Chrift bruiting the ferpents head, Satan bathlet up Hercules, killing the Lermean Hydra. Which fable whoTeeth not plainly tohave been hatcht in hell, and fuggefted to the Poets, in an apifh imitation of God, meerly to elude his oracle ? The like may be faid of the fable of Orpheus his wife, fuddenly fnatcht from him, for looking back upon hrr e which was made out of the ftory of Lots wife : So their Hercules with his ten labours, was the Scripture Safe/n. And their Sabin King of zefgyps, and Prieft afVeilcan ( who was helpedfrom heavenby his (sod against Senacherib King of A(fj FHerodot.l.a, ria that invaded him) who could it be elfe, but Hezeki_ah King ofJudah ? Ita diaboltes (operumDei Momees) per e/Egyptios hoc Buc ser. egit, ne divinum miraculum in Iude4 editumvilefceret, fsdets: au- thoritzatemamitteret, d' tonti operisglaria adturpifßma idola rediret. Thus thedevil attempted by his Egyptians to transfer the glory of a divine miracle upon himfelf. Tb s world at And¡hewetk him all the ICingdomsofthe earth] I n their beauty laft day {loll and bravery. A. bewitching fight, doubtlffe, and would have be burnt for a moved much with a carnalt heart. But here the devils fire fell vaach. upon wet tinder, and therefore took not. Gain and glory ? rule and riches ? 2ui3nitmentis inops,&c. Set but a wedge of gold in fight, andXoíhua ( thatcould flay the courfe of the Sun) cane no: flay Achan from luting and laying hold on it. Salaam: Affe never gallops fait enough after preferment. AndZimri will have his Cozbi, though he die for it. Thefe three Enchantreíf's, The T,,y i s 41oftheflelh, the lufi ofthe eye and the pride oflife ; Pleafure, pro- j,, 2,,4,ís, fit andpreferment (theworlily mans Trinity) whom have they rz not bewitched, befóoled bebeafted ? S.Tohn lbeweth that a man neyY 7 gd may b very mortified , a father, and yet wondrous fubj to `a A"g'i dote. on the world. Ofthewhich, neverthelef'fe,we may fay (as d'9-7ú qnv xru, í'lotIr.á; e/faron ofthep.0*) 'tiswholly fet upon wickednefle, : Or, as le,t,efee another fotn :timesfadofanHiftorian, Both the Words and the of
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