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 /…

Secondly,¹ in that our Saviour is no sooner baptized, & ordained to be the great Doctor of the Church, but he is presently tempted ⟨p. 5⟩and encountered by Satan: hence we learn, that all those which be appointed of God to any special office in the Church or common-weal, they must make account they shall be tempted, and look for Satan's temptations one way or other: it was that which befell the head, and therefore let us all that be his members reckon of it. Example of this we have in Moses, ²who so soon as he was new called to be the guide and deliverer of the children of Israel, he was fain to fly when he had killed the Egyptian.³ And David was no sooner appointed by God to be King of Israel, but Saul did persecute him. As soon as our Saviour Christ had called the Apostles to that office, he brought them to the sea, and there by his divine power raised a storm,⁴ so as they cried out, Master, save us, or else we perish.

Secondly,¹ in that our Sauiour is no sooner baptized, & ordained to be the great Doctor of the Church, but he is presently tempted ⟨p. 5⟩and encountred by Satan: hence we learne, that all those which be appointed of God to any speciall office in the Church or common-weale, they must make account they shall be tempted, and looke for Satans temptations one way or other: it was that which befell the head, and therefore let vs all that be his members reckon of it. Example of this we haue in Moses, ²who so soone as he was new called to be the guide and deliuerer of the children of Israel, he was faine to flie when he had killed the Egyptian.³