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Secondly, in that our Saviour Christ after his solemn inauguration into his mediatorship, was immediately to go to be tempted; we learn,¹ that all those that are set apart by God to any special calling, even at their very entrance thereinto must look for temptations. This befell the head, and therefore all the members must reckon for it. When Moses was first called to be the guide and conductor of Gods people out of Egypt,^a having slain an Egyptian in defence of one of his brethren, upon knowledge of the fact he was fain to fly from Pharaoh's court into the land of Midian, and there to live a shepherd's life for many years with his father in law Jethro. And David was no sooner appointed by God to be king over his people Israel, but^b Saul began to persecute him, and so continued all his days. And our Saviour Christ, having called his Apostles to their office of preaching his kingdom,^c took them soon after to the sea, and there falling asleep suffered their ship to be so tossed with waves in a great tempest, that they looked for nothing but present drowning, so as they cried out, Master save us, we perish. And this the Lord doth in great wisdom for the good of his children:⁵ first to teach them, that no man is able of himself, to carry himself in any acceptable course of his calling without Gods special assistance and grace. Secondly, to §2stir up in them those good gifts and graces which he hath formerly bestowed on them; as the fear of his name, the ⟨p. 3⟩love of his majesty, the gifts of prayer, faith, patience, and many other which he would have tried in the entrance of their callings, and exercised in the continuance therein unto the end.

Secondly, in that our Sauiour Christ after his solemne inauguration into his mediatorship, was immediatly to go to be tempted; we learn,