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A08599	A notable and comfortable exposition, vpon the fourth of Mathevv; concerning the tentations of Christ preached in S.Peters Church, in Oxenford; By Thomas Bentham, fellovv ov Magdalin Colledge and afterwards Vyshop of Liechfeeld and Coventrie.	Bentham, Thomas, 1513-1579.	1583 (1583)	STC 1891; ESTC S111929	35,336	98

them but because one will not suffice to maintain them lordly and wealthily nor to get goods together for many yeares The gospel of long time thorow the tyrannie of the Romish Antichrist by whom pluralities first came hath béen made a cloak for couetousnes But I pray God pull of the cloake that euery man may appeare in his plaine coat Of these wicked Mammonites S. Amb. de dig s cer cap. 5. Ambrose in his booke de dignitate sacerdot all saith Through mony he hath g●tten honour not due vnto him and hath lost God in his inward man flesh hath taken the dignity and the soule hath lost her honesty The flesh being maid is become mistres ouer the soule and the soule which was miastres is made seruant to the flesh Flesh hath rule ouer the people and the soule serueth the Deuill to his flesh he hath gotten a benefice and losse to his soule What auaileth it such a one to win all the worlds and to endamage his owne soule I appeale to your consciences to which I speake rather then to your eares Do you thinke Englād is not combred with many such as S. Ambrose speaketh off Let no man take my wordes so generally as though I secluded none frō this company For I meane onely these couetous dumbe dogs or shadowes of ministers not the true ministers them selues or the good pastors of their flock Of whom because the number is smal and the haruest very great let vs desire the lord daily more and more to encrease it that his people be not starued for lack of food but strengthened in the faith to the glory of his name Thus haue yée hearde the third temptation of Sathan against Christ Then saide Iesus vnto him Auoyd sathan For it is written Thou shalt worship the lord thy God him only shalt thou serue BEfore when the deuil went about to make Christe discredite God in his promises Christ answered him mildly but now when the deuil wil prefer himselfe before God our sauiour rebuk●th him sharply and commandeth him to auoid but with authority of scripture as he did before To teach vs that scripture should be our shield our defence and cōfort in al temptation This scripture is takē out of the fift booke of Moses called Deutronomie where Moses speaketh to the Deu. 6. 10 Israelites with like words to the same effect Thou shalt feare the lord thy G●d and serue him By this place our sauiour conuinceth the deuil biddeth him auoide And here if I had lesure I might speak of the difference which the schoole men make betweene latria which is the true and liuely worship of God and dulia which is honest obedience due to man not forbidden by this scripture Onely it forbiddeth to giue the inward worship of the mind that appertaineth only to the almighty God vnto any creature besids So y● these words of God alleged by our sauiour import thus much that because God had don such maruailous works I wonderous miracles for the deliuerance of his people out of Egypt to the astonishment not only of the Egyptians but of al that world nostrength nor power being able to stand or preuaile against his might therfore they ought to feare the lord and serue him As though he should say seeing I haue shewed such power vpō Pharaoh his host in working wonders for thy sake O Israel haue deliuered thee so mercifully from all thy miseries me thinks I may by right claim thy seruice thou shalt feare me as a lord of magnificent strēgth power as an omnipotēt God y● made all things thou shalt serue worship me as a merciful long suffering God thou shalt praise me inu●●ate me depend on me as thy helper thy gouernor thy protector that only thou shalt séek for health helpe aid succour all of me and besides me of none If God then be the maker of all things the giuer of all things the Lorde of all things the made heauē earth the sea al that is therin if he be giuer of life liberty health welth and whatsoeuer and haue al things vnder his hand did not the deuil lie falsly in saying al the kingdoms of y● world were his and at his dispositiō did not that deu●l work high treason against Gods maiesty by tempting the Lorde of life to fall down before him and worship him so to haue committed beastly and blasphemous Idolatry But auaunt Sa●an saith our sauiour thy words preuail not and thy temptations can take no place for it is writtē Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God but him onely shalt thou serue Wherby briefly you may vnderstande what the true worship of God is how much against Gods glory is the worshipping of saints wherof if I had not been tedious to you already I woulde haue spoken more at large But I wil hasten towards an end Then the deuil left him HEre S. Iames his saying is prooued true resist the deuil be wil flee from Iam. 4. you By which example we may learne the though the godly be continually tempted and assaulted yet if they stande constātly and shrink not they may be sure of the victory For God is faithful which wil not suffer them to be tempted aboue their 1. Cor. 10. strength as S. Paul saith is able as S. Pet●r writeth to deliuer the Godly from 2. Pet. 2. temptation ●o● was tempted but he ouer came the Apostles were sundry many waies tempted but they triumphed always The patriarks Prophets haue be●e many times tempted but they neuer fainted And here you sée our sauiour was tempted but he ouerthrew the deuill and vtterly confounded him euen with a word of his mouth This hath our sauiour bene content to do for vs submitting himselfe to Satans temptation to declare vnto vs y● whilste we be in this life we are in danger of temptation also but yet if we abide it stedfastly without starting we shal be sure to win the victory as he hath done before vs. Let no man therfore either think it strange or be dismaied if he be tempted For can y● members spéed better then the head Or need the members feare their trial whē the head hath subdued the tempter If the head had fayled there had been some cause why the members might feare but since it is otherwise who is so faint hearted that can doubt of the victory Wherefore dearely beloued since it is so that Sathans temptations can not touche vs if we persist in the faith nor preuail against vs if like true seruants and followers of our Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ we resist him by the scriptures Let vs exercise our selues in the word of the Lord day and night and let vs not yeeld either at the first second or third brunt but let vs tarry the Lordes leasure and in the ende we may be certain euen to weary the deuil and make him faine to forsake vs. And behold the Aungels came and ministred vnto him AFter these fourty dayes and fourty nights were expired and sathan had left him our sauiour began to hun●er and God sent his aungels to minister such thinges as hee lacked vnto him This is a i● table patterne of cons●anc●e and patience He grudged at nothing hee ●●strusied not Gods prouidence but tooke all patiently that God sent And therefore God sent his angels to comfort and relieue him And thus may the Children of God perswade themselues that God will prouide for them in all their extreemeties if they put their trust in him He fedde the holy Prophet Elias by rauens and also by ● King 17. 19. an angell He fedde Daniel in the Lions denne God neuer forgetteth nor forsaketh them that trust faithfully in him For as Dauid saith I haue beene young Psal 37. and now am olde yet did I neuer s●e a iust man forsaken nor his seed seeking h●s bread But a●asse our faith is so weake and our charitie so colde our patience so small and our sturdy st●maches so big that we will rather tempt our God spoile our neigbours murmure fight aganst God if he once for our trial se●m to lay his heuy hande on vs th● 〈…〉 ther to waite on his leasure or to 〈◊〉 vpon him for his fauor But I bese●● the O merciful father so to strēgthē vs against our enemy that we may haue a valiant conquest ouer the deuill and all his socitie and that we may haue the ministery of the Angelical company as here had our Sauiour and redeemer Iesus Christe to whome with the father and the holy ghost be all honour and glory for euer and euer Amen

Euangelist but after Luk● it is Luk. 4. the second Wherby you may see they laboured not so much of the order and maner as of the matter it selfe They both agree of three temptations though they vary in the order of them But the deuill desirous to bring his purpose about I know not thorow what ho●chauing the ●oile before is not ashamed to assay the matter againe And therefore he vseth a more easie way He willed not Christ here to deny God directly nor to worke any miracle but he went about to make him in loue with that world with welth riches wherby many men many times decline from God vnawares Neither doth the deuill trifle in the matter but he offereth euen the largest and the welthiest kingdoms of the world and to enflame him as he thought the more hee sheweth them and al the glory of thē in a vision Marke the subtletie of the ●ipter He biddeth not Christ fal down and worship him on the plaine ground in the desart but he taketh him vp into an exceedi●g high moun●aine and sheweth him all the coastes and kingdomes of the worlde in the brauest and gloriest maner that he coulde saying Is not this a pleasant kingdome Is not this a welthy realm Is not this a glorious empire O how happy fortunate are those rulers that are in so high estate What a delicious lyfe might he lead y● were Lord ouer two or three of thē Might not y● man triumph Al these kingdoms which thou seest are in my hand to dispose beslow where how I list This I giue to this mā and that to an other but if thou wilt do as I would haue thée be ruled by me I wil set thee aboue them all For it is meet y● the son of God should haue larger greater kingdomes then any worldly prince And therefore I am contented to giue thee not onely al these kingdoms which thou seest but also the power and glory of them Thou shalt not buy them thou shalt pay neither gold nor siluer for thē I wil aske but reason of thee the thou fal down before me in token of obedience homage and worship me I require but little yet do this I will perform● my promise The world would think this a maruailous tēptation here are as swéet words as can be For who is more boūd to his lord then he that payeth no rents for his lands Our landlords wil not let out their groundes so good cheape But th●se words as the tempter vseth thē are most false and full of blasphemous I dolatry For though the deuill the ruler of darknes be called the prince of the world yet he is not so called as though he had kingdomes or empires at cōmandemēt for the land is the lords in his hands are the ends of the world but the deuil is called the prince of the world because he ruleth beareth the chiefe strook ouer the children of vnbeleife which sometimes in scripture are called the world So that he lyed falsly in saying all the kingdomes of y● worlde were his and it was a blasphemous pr●sumptiō against God to motiō Christ Iesus to fal down worship him Who as he hath béene a blasphemer of God his works frō the beginning so he continueth in these our daies perswading the worlde no lesse to fall downe worship him now then he did heretofore For I know not how but sure it is so my conscience wil not suffer me to conceale it Sathan hath taken many of our ministers and carried thē vp to an exceeding high mountain and shewed them al the spiritual liuinges almost in that world Byshopricks Deanries Prehends Personages and vicarages and hath told them this is a welthy Byshoprick this is a rich Deanrie this is a fat benefice they are all in my gift I am the patron of them fall downe therfore before me worship me and if one wil not content you I wil giue you pluralites Let n●mā think these things to be forged or sucked out of mine owne fingers For writers make mention that the deuil in déed gaue the Bishoprick of Rome once since that time it was neuer good And is he not so able now thinke you to giue a poore benefice as he was then to giue the faitest bishoprick in the world Let no man be offended with me for speaking that which al the world by experiēce séeth to be true For where these ministers should be preachers they are tong tied and that cōmeth not without great temptatiō For thus he reasoneth with thē speak no more of iustification meddle no more with controuersies ru● no mā on the sore let euery man liue as he list without reprehensiō or admonion you shal lack no liuing Do you thinke that sathan hath not thus sworne many to silence I haue hard of diuers the at the beginning haue beene very godly preachers but after they haue bin once chooked vp with many liuinges they haue had such a bone in their throates as the deuil wold haue it the they would seldem open their mouth to speake any more I besech God giue vs grace to withstand auoid this his flattring and sweet tēptation Once not long since I spake aganst such in a place where I was after my sermō was ended it was tolde me that some called me a yong mā said it was but a pang of heate that I gaped for a liuing which obtained I woulde be as quiet as other men I am a yong man still I am not sorry for it but I thank my God for it who I trust will at his pleasure turn both my youth mine old age to his glory For S. Paul hath taught me not to contemne youth ●ut where they sayd it was but a pang the was not true for I was as circumspect in it as I could I haue now the same mind and iudgement y● I had then though a little more confirmed by the scriptures ancient doctors and to say I gaped for a liuing it is vntrue For I might haue had since that time a rich and worshipfull liuing if I would haue taken it but if to take a benefice should make me tong-tied I had rather haue none whilst I liued Yet what I should do I cannot tel I will not presume too much of mine own strength seeing more godly better learned men seduced by the flattery of y● deuil and the world But as I am now minded I had rather go on begging frō dore to dore and liue in extrem pouerty then without diligent preaching to my flock liue neuer so magnificētly I enuy no mās liuing thogh it were thrée times so much but the men take vpon thē more then eyther they are able or willing to discharge it is great sinne and seemes to proceed from sathan his temptation For vndoubtedly men take not so many benefices now because they cā or mean to discharge