The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. The second sort of Temptations which Jesus Christ did conflict with, & conquer is fear, which layeth Faith prostrate, and raiseth unbelief to use carnal wisdom and shifts to help our selves, and stirreth up carnal confidence and presumption in a misapplied promise, which is a very dangerous Temptation to a believer. This Temptation of fear gave a great foil to the Faith of Abraham, both in Egypt and in Gerar, in saying his wife was his sister out of fear, and in like manner was the Faith of Isaac foiled. But David was a gallant conqueror in this point, that would not touch Saul, when the Providence of God delivered him, or exposed him into his hand, no not to gain a Kingdom by an indirect means: against this Temptation of fear, Jesus Christ hath diligently charged and fenced the Church, Math. 10.26, 28, 31, 33. Luk. 12.32. and in many other places, and by his Conflict with this sort of Temptations he hath both conquered Satan for us, and hath set us an heavenly pattern how we should conquer them also,

2. The second sort of Temptations which Iesus Christ did conflict with, & conquer is fear, which layeth Faith prostrate, and raiseth unbelief to use carnal wisdom and shifts to help our selves, and stirreth up carnal confidence and presumption in a misapplyed promise, which is a very dangerous Temptation to a believer. This Temptation of fear gave a great foil to the Faith of Abraham, both in Egypt and in Gerar, in saying his wife was his sister out of fear, and in like manner was the Faith of Isaac foyled. But David was a gallant conquerour in this point, that would not touch Saul, when the Providence of God delivered him, or exposed him into his hand, no not to gain a Kingdome by an indirect means: against this Temptation of fear, Iesus Christ hath diligently charged and fenced the Church, Math. 10.26, 28, 31, 33. Luk. 12.32. and in many other places, and by his Conflict with this sort of Temptations he hath both conquered Satan for us, and hath set us an heavenly pattern how we should conquer them also,