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A19873	Seven sermons on, the wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Sathan Delivered by the Reuerend Father in God, Doct. Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, lately deceased.; Wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans salvation) betweene Christ and Satan	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1627 (1627)	STC 630; ESTC S119227	63,833	118

but euen out of the same thing wherewith he was foyled maketh hee matter of a new Temptation a new ball of fire Out of Christs conquest he makes a new assault that is since he will needes trust he will set him on trusting he shall trust as much as he will As the fo●mer tempted him to diffidence so this sh●ll tempt him to presidence As before the diuell brought him to the waters of Meribah Exod. 17 7. where the Children of Israel did murmure and tempt God so now he brings him to the temptation of Massah Deut. 6 16. that is to presumption wantonnesse and delicacie for then with bread they were not content but they must haue flesh and other dainties Psal. 78 20. As the first might be called the hungry Temptation so this may be called The wanton Temptation That which was in the old Testament the Temptation of Meribah is here in the new Testament the Temptation of the Wildernesse and that which was there the Temptation of Massah is heere the temptation of the Pinacle In the first by want of things necessary he thought to driue them to vexation and bitternesse of spirit and to distrust Gods power and goodnesse In the second by vnnecessary matters hee draweth vs on to wantonnesse and to put God to try what he can doe and to set him about base seruices by the one he driueth vs vnto vnlawfull meanes by the other he draweth vs from the vse of things lawfull by the one he brings vs to this conceit that wee are so abiected of God that if we trust in him hee will in the end faile vs by the other to thinke we are so deare in Gods eyes and such darlings as throw our selues into any danger and he will not forsake vs. By the one he puts vs in feare as Augustine saith Deum defuturum eatiam si promisit by the other in hope Deum adfuturum vbi non promist by the one he slandreth God vnto vs as if he were a God of straw of base condition and subiect to our becke by the other as if he were a God of iron that would not encline though we requested him Now to the Temptation wherein we are to consider three things First the ground the Deuill chose for the working of this Temptation Secondly the temptation it selfe to wit the deuils speech Thirdly Christs answer to it In the place three things are to be noted First the place it selfe Secondly the deuill chose it Thirdly that our Sauiour followed him thither For a new temptation he makes choyce of a new place Indeed for a temptation to presumption the Wildernesse was not a fit place first it was not high enough and then it was not populous enough It was a melancholly place when a man is vnder the crosse in affliction or in some anguish and sorrow for want death of friends or otherwise and generally for all solitarie men the hungry Temptation is fitter than this of Presumption As long as Noah was in the Arke in the midst of the waters hee had in him no presumptuous thought but sitting vnder the Vine in his Vineyard hee was ouercome therewith And iust Lot 2 Pet. 2 8. in Sodom had no fit time or place to be presumptuous but when he dwelt in the mountaine in security then the committed incest with his Daughters being made drunk by them Dauid so long as he was persecuted by Saul and tossed vp and downe from post to pillar had no leysure to be presumptuous but in the top of his Turret when hee was at rest in his Pallace 2 Sam. 11 2. presumption gaue him a blow So here the Wildernesse was no fit place but the Pinacle is a very fit place for one to be presumptuous on It is as good as a stage to shew himselfe vpon to see and to be seene In the Wildernesse there was small warrant for one that would be presumptuous but from the Pinacle he might discerne farre and neere both the inner Court and outward Court and see a whole Cloud of Witnesses and haue some warrant of example of all estates high or low wise or noble For what abuse soeuer be in him be hee neuer so presumptuous he shall see some as proud stout and high-minded as himselfe be his hayre neuer so long or his ruffes neuer so great he shall finde some as farre gone therein as himselfe If we marke the foure gradations that it hath wee shall finde it to be a very fit place As first before he could come to the Pinacle he must go out of the Wildernesse into the Citie Secondly not any Citie but the holy Citie Thirdly into the Temple of the Citie And fourthly out of the Temple vp to the Pinacle First hauing got him to leaue the Wildernesse he brought him into the Citie that there he might say vnto him You see such and such graue men how they behaue themselues why should you seeke to be holier than they This was a good ciuell temptation he brought him not to Cesarea or Samaria but euen to Ierusalem the holy Citie for that addition is giuen it Luke 4 9. and Dan. 9 24. Thirdly he brought him into the Temple where euen the verie ground was holy Fourthly not to any other place of it but the very top and Pinacle which was ouer the Sanctum Sanctorum Who would not tread hard there and take vpon him being in such a place where if a man will be carried away with example he may see Ananias the high-Priest renting his cloathes at the hearing of things that sounded like blasphemy Marke 14 63. and yet buying his Bishopricke for money who will not then be bold to do the like And Herod a Prince such a one as heard Iohn Baptist preach yea and with much delight to commit adultery Marke 6 20. who would feare to do the like There he may see the Pharisie vnder shew of great holinesse tything Mint and Cummin and vnder colour of long prayers deuour widowes houses bringing in by extortion and sending out by excesse Math. 23 14 21. And so in this Citie one may see some men both great frequenters of Sermons and yet great vsurers Gentlewomen mishapen in their attyre Seeing this who will not be as bold as they the place being so holy And being thus warranted by example surely we must needes commend the deuils wit for his choyce Out of this arise two notes First against some phantasticall spirits who say Can that bee an holy Citie where there be dumbe dogges There were so in Ierusalem Esay 56 10. Where the leaders bee blinde Mat. 15 14 They were so where Iudas ministred the Sacrament where there is diuision and debate amongst themselues Phil. 4 2. Can this say they be the holy Citie And thereupon they forsake the fellowship Heb. 10 25. Whereas they not withstanding the former abuses and notwithstanding the eleuen Tribes were Apostates did yet name it the holy Citie Secondly on the other side wee are to

then if the Temptation had beene to Gluttony Christs answer had bene nothing to the purpose the Deuill might well haue replyed against the insufficiencie of it For gluttony is to be answered by a text willing sobriety whereas this text which Christ answereth by containeth rather an assertion of Gods prouidence and therefore our Sauiour should haue seemed very vnskilfull in defending himselfe The temptation therefore is to distrust This standeth well with the deuils cunning in fight for by this he shooteth first euen at the throat and at that which is the life of a Christian to wit his faith as a man would say Iugulum petit euen at that which ouercometh the world 1 Iohn 5 5. He tempted him to such a distrust as was in the Israelites Exod. 17 7. when they asked if God were with them or no So he made Adam thinke God eared not for him so here the deuill premiseth a doubt to shake his faith wherein Christ made no doubt Si filius Dei es Indeed you heard a voyce say you were the beloued Sonne of God but are you so indeed or was it not rather a delusion You see you are almost starued for want of bread well would God haue suffered you so to be if you had beene his Filius dilectus No you are some hunger-starued child So Luke 22 31. Christ prayed that Peters faith might not faile It was that the deuil shot at He is a roaring Lyon seeking to deuour vs whom we must resist by faith 1 Pet. 5 8. It is our faith that the aimes at 1 Thes. 3 5. For hauing ouerthrowne that disobedience soone will follow Hauing abolished the stablisher of the Law Rom. 3 31. the breach of the Law must needs follow He hath then fit time to set vs a worke about making stones into bread that is to get our liuing by vnlawful means First shipwracke of faith then of obedience The Deuill here seeing him in great want and hunger would thereby bring in doubt that hee was not the Sonne of God which is not a good argument For whether we respect the naturall tokens of Gods fauour we see they happen not to the wisest and men of best and greatest knowledge as appeareth in Eccles. 9 11. or the supernaturall fauour of God We shall see Abraham forced to flye his Countrey into Egypt for famine Gen. 10 12. So did Isaac Gen. 26 1. and Iacob likewise was in the same distresse Gen. 43 1. Notwithstanding that God was called The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob yet were they all three like to be hunger-starued Yea not onely so but for their faith many were burned and stoned of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11 37. So fared it with the Apostles they were hungry naked and athirst 1 Cor. 4 11. But what do we speake of the adopted sonnes of God when as his owne naturall Sonne suffered as much nay farre more Here wee see he was hungry also he was wearied with trauaile and faine to rest Iohn 4 6. he had no house to hide his head in whereas Foxes haue holes If thou be the Sonne of God THe Heathens haue obserued that in Rhetoricke it is a point of chiefest cunning when you would out face a man or importune him to do a thing to presse and vrge him with that which hee will not or cannot for shame denie to be in himselfe As by saying If you haue any wit then you will do thus and thus if you be an honest man or a good fellow do this So here the deuill not being to learne any point of subtilty comes to our Sauiour saying If thou be the Sonne of God as it may be doubted you being in this case then make these stones bread No no it followes not a man may be the sonne of God and not shew it by any such Art So when Pilate asked who accused Christ they answered If he had not beene a malefactor we would not haue brought him before thee Iohn 18. 30. They were iolly graue men it was a flat flatterie and in Iohn 21. 23. there is the like This ought to put vs in minde when we are tempted in like manner that we take heed we be not out-faced In the matter it selfe wee are to consider these points First the deuill sets it downe for a ground that follow what will bread must needs be had Therefore Christ first closeth with him Admit hee had bread were he then safe No We liue not by berad only so that bread is not of absolute necessity Well what followes of that Bread you must needs haue you see your want God hath left off to prouide for you Then comes the conclusion Therefore shift for your selfe as well as you can First he soliciteth vs to a mutinous repining within our selues as Heb. 3 8. Harden not your hearts as in the day of temptation c. whereby he forceth vs to breake out into such like conceits as Psal. 116 11. I said in my distresse that all men be lyars and Psal. 31 22. I said in my haste I am cast off Thus closely he distrusted God in saying his Prophets prophecie lies till at last we euen open our mouths against God himselfe and say This euill commeth from the Lord shall I attend on the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6 33. Hunger and shame is all we shall get at Gods hands And so casting off God betake themselues to some other Patron and then the deuill is fittest for their turne For when we are fallen out with one it is best seruing his enemy and to retaine to the contrary faction Then wee seeke a familiar with Saul to answer vs 1 Sam. 28 7. But what did the deuill than tell him did hee bring comfort with him No he tels him that to morrow he and his sonnes should dye So here doth the deuill bring a stone with him What Father saith Christ if his Sonne aske him bread would give him a stone Math. 7 9. yet the diuell doth so Christ was hungry and the deuill shewes him stones Here is the Deuils comfort here be stones for thee if thou canst deuise any way to make these stones bread thou art well whereas we do not vse to make bread of stones but of wheate to worke it with the sweate of our browe sto get it so we learne Gen. 3 19. By extortion and vsurie we may make stones into bread that is the deuils Alchymistrie or haply wee may make bread of nothing when a man gets a thing by anothers ouersight Gen. 43 12. Or else what and if we can ouer-reach our brother in subtilty and goe beyond him with a tricke of wit or cunning Let no man defraud or oppresse his brother in any matter for the Lord is auenged of all such 1 Thes. 4 6. The one is called The bread of violence and oppression Prou. 4 17 The other The bread of deceit They are indeed both made of stones for they still retaine their former