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 /…

Out of this subtle dealing of the Divel• that he begins with lesser temptations,¹ an• proceeds by degrees, it must teach us to b• wise, and to labour, that we may stop the fir•• motions and inclinations to sin, to resist th• very beginnings to evil. For if Satan prevail• in them, he will proceed to more forcibl• temptations.

Out of this subtile dealing of the Diuel• that he begins with lesser temptations,¹ an• proceeds by degrees, it must teach vs to b• wise, and to labour, that we may stop the fir•• motions and inclinations to sin, to resist th• very beginnings to euill. For if Satan preuail• in them, he will proceed to more forcibl• temptations.

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The fourth and last point in the abode […] Christ in the wilderness,¹ is in these word He was afterward an hungry: that is, when h had by the divine power and virtue of h Godhead fasted forty days and forty night he was at the last hungry. And this Christ di for our sakes: for though Christ was the So of God, yet for our good he was content t take our nature upon him, and became true man like unto us in all things excepting sin and had not only the will, mind, affection and conscience of man, but also took upon him the infirmities of humane nature, so