Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…

Now let us see how this answer of Christ is applied to the devils temptation. The devil had laboured to prove that Christ was not the ⟨p. 48⟩son of God, his argument was this: If th•• be the son of God, command that the•• stones be made bread; but thou canst no• make these stones bread, therefore thou […] not the son of God.

Now let vs see how this answer of Christ is applied to the diuels temptation. The diuel had labored to proue that Christ was not the ⟨p. 48⟩sonne of God, his argument was this: If th•• be the sonne of God, commaund that the•• stones be made bread; but thou canst no• make these stones bread, therefore thou 〈…〉 not the sonne of God.

Our Saviour Christ doth allege this place of Scripture, and doth deny the proposition or first part of the devils argument: for where•as the devil takes this for granted, that if • man be hungry, he must have bread by an• means to preserve his life: Christ answers, […] is not necessary, because a mans life is no• preserved by bread only, but it is maintained by the special decree & blessing of God▪ And indeed this is a special point and wo• thy lesson to be learned, as may appear i that the Lord was no less then forty years teaching it to the children of Israel,