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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 /…
Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Master William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set down the temptations of a Christian.Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.
London: printed by Richard Field for E.E., 1604
SATANS SOPHISTRY ANSWERED BY OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST.SATANS SOPHISTRIE ANSWERED BY OVR SAVIOVR CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let us rather seek the reasons wherefore he was tempted in the wilderness:1 first, because Christ coming into the world to be •ut Mediator,2 took upon him the base estate of a servant, and came in humiliation: therefore when he was now baptized, he would not go to Jerusalem to publish his honour, but he went into the desert, a solitary wilderness.
Let vs rather seeke the reasons wherefore he was tempted in the wildernesse:1 first, because Christ comming into the world to be •ut Mediator,2 tooke vpon him the base estate of a seruant, and came in humiliation: therefore when he was now baptized, he would not go to Ierusalem to publish his honour, but he went into the desert, a solitary wildernesse.
- 1Reasons why Christ went into the wilderness.Reasons why Christ went into the wildernesse.
- 21. Reason.
Again, he went into the wilderness, tha• he might not only the more easily encounter, but more victoriously overcome his enemy the Devil: for if Satan had seen him i• his glory, he durst not so fiercely and so eagerly have set upon him; and therefore dot• as the fisherman, who hideth the hook and showeth only the bait: so Christ he showeth his manhood, but covereth as it wer with a mantle his Godhead, so that the Diu seeing him in the base estate of humiliation might be the more fierce in his temptation and he might get a more glorious victory.