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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85774	Christ tempted: the divel conquered. Or, A short and plain exposition on a part of the fourth chapter St. Matthew's Gospel. Together with two sermons preached before the University at Oxford, some years since. By John Gumbleden, B.D. and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Leicester.	Gumbleden, John, 1598 or 9-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2232; Thomason E912_11; ESTC R207548	83,000	98

in respect of any creature wholy to be ascribed to himself alone So it is here none assisted our Saviour in conquering Satan and therefore none ought to partake with him in the honour of that Conquest his alone the victory was and that the honour thereof might be wholy his also he would be tempted in the wilderness And 5ly There also tempted he would be rather then in any other place even to manifest thereby that there was no place fitter then that to Conquer the Divel y Aquin. tert pars Serm. q. 41. Artic. 2. in who before had conquered man in the Garden in Paradise both were desart and solitary places both Paradise and the Wilderness Paradise where the first Adam was alone when the serpent the Divel by the woman tempted and conquered him The Wilderness where the second Adam was alone when he conquered Satan Solitary places both and the one was rightly chosen to Conquer the Divel in who in the other had been a Conqueror Nullus ubique potest faelici ludere dextra No mans game Is still the same Thus hitherto I. Jesus was led up of the Spirit of the Holy Ghost 2. Led up he was by him into the wilderness 3. Into the wilderness there to be tempted of the Divel And there to be tempted the rather that the Divel where he had the most advantage might to his own greater shame have the least success having now to deal with one who would be tempted in the wilderness that having secluded himself from the society of men and alone prepared himself by prayer and fasting for the work of God he might have the whole honour of his own victory over the Divel whom he left not unrequited neither but conquered him in the wilderness who before had conquered man in Paradise As I have done so God hath rewarded me Judg. 1.7 4. The Time when our Saviour was tempted in the wilderness is pointed at in the first word of the Text. Then that word relating to those immediately before cap. 3. v. 16 17. Then Even so soon as he was Baptized of John in Jordan and as man inrolled into the Family of God Then So soon as the holy Ghost had descended on him like a Dove in testimony of his innocency Then So soon as he was publikely declared from Heaven to be that Son of God and therefore that second Person of the most glorious Trinity under the veile of humane flesh never so cleerly revealed before to the sonns of men even Then the Divel fuller of wrath fearing he should lose his Kingdome then Herod was after he heard of his a Mar. 2.3 Birth for fear he should presently loose his sets upon our Saviour with a resolute purpose to deceive him by Temptations before he was baptized we read not at all that he was at any time tempted no for while with Joseph and Mary his Mother he led a private life at Nazareth in b Mat. 2.23 Galilee where he fixed for many yeers after his safe return out of Egypt the Divel as knowing as he is could not distinguish him at all from another from an ordinary Person no but Then immediately after the publicke solemnity of his Inauguration to his Prophetical Office was fully ended at Jordan then was there special notice taken of him by that evil spirit by that diligent Observer both of Persons Words and Actions and that he might not lose so fit an opportunity to bring forth what he then began to conceive even a burthen of Temptations he the more narrowly watched which way his motion tended and if I may so speak diligently waited on him though in a bad sense and to a bad end till he found him in a fit capacity all things as yet being but in preparation to be Tempted in the Wilderness Then even after the Heavens had been opened unto him v. 16. in testimony that he came down from Heaven as afterwards he testified of himself John 3.13 though for a time most willing he was now to become the Object of the Divels temptations on earth Lo thus it was with our Saviour Christ and thus also it is with Christians the one was Tempted of the Divel the other is not exempted from the like condition Wherefore that of our Saviour to his Apostles is by way of allusion fitly appliable here the Disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his c Mat. 10.24 Lord. And If they meaning the stiff-necked and malicious Jews if they have persecuted me they will also persecute d John 15.20 you 'T is an Argument from the greater to the less and the Apostles afterwards were sensible of the strength and weight of it by more then ordinary experience in themselves So if the Divel durst so early even almost when he was but then come out of the water tempt our Saviour surely he will make no scruple at all at any time to tempt those who faithfully believe in that Saviour it being as an uncontrouled Maxim● in his school that none at any time displease him until they first begin to serve and please God But then even so soon as we have given up our names to Christ so soon as we begin to have any opening of the Heavens unto us any heavenly grace any measure of faith any degree of repentance in us any descending of God's holy Spirit upon us to enlighten the darkness of our hearts the dimness of our understandings to reform the crooked perversness of our wills even then presently we daily more and more become the Butt at which all the fiery darts of Satan are furiously e Diabolus semper primordia boni pulsat saencta in ipso ortu festinat extinguere Chryoslog de jejeun tent Christi Serm. 11. shot as Saul in his furious mood cast his javelin at David 1 Sam. 18.11 and They that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 1 Tim. 3.12 shall be subject to Temptation Neither is this done without the Providence of a good God who would have it to be so And that 1. To try us whether we will be patient and faithful unto him or not even when we are under the pressures and by his permission for our good troden down for a time in the Wine press of Satan as Job was 2. That knowing our own weak and frail condition we might the sooner be moved to flee unto him for help and succour in the time of our fiery tryal in the day of our calamity 3. That we might learn with thankful hearts to give him the whole glory who from time to time out of his great love and mercy unto us hath sent us such or such a mighty Deliverance Who 4. In suffering us for a time to be tempted doth thereby intend for the promotion of our Spiritual state to conform us daily more and more to the Image of his Son and to the example of his sufferings who was tempted of the Divel and his