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

2. We see the great power Satan hath over the minds and fancies of men, by these fictitious imaginations, and fgments, he can transport us up and down in the world, as he listeth, to suit and to promote his Temptations. Jesus Christ suffered himself, at this time of his Temptation, to be transported by Satan. One while he was transported on to the top of one of the Pinnacles of the Temple, and there was affected and terrified with fear. This was a mental figment, which Jesus Christ suffered Satan to inject into his holy mind, that he might experience such Temptations, and conquer them for us. So likewise when he transported him into an exceeding high mountain, and there showed him all the Kingdoms of the World, and the glory thereof; this was but a fiction, a figment and imagination, which Satan (having permission) injected into his holy mind, for it is most certain, that there is no such mountain in the world, where such an object is to be seen, much less in a moment of time to be performed, as Luke saith it was, Luk. 4.5. therefore these Temptations of mental figments, and vanity of mind, which were (doubtless) no small interruption to his holy heart, in that holy service and worship he was about. But blessed be his Name, as he hath experienced our Temptations, which are such a sad and doleful annoyance to us, so he hath conquered them for us, and set us a pattern how we should do so also.

2. We see the great power Satan hath over the minds and phansies of men, by these fictitious imaginations, and fgments, he can transport us up and down in the world, as he listeth, to suit and to promote his Temptations. Jesus Christ suffered himself, at this time of his Temptation, to be transported by Satan. One while he was transported on to the top of one of the Pinnacles of the Temple, and there was affected and terrified with fear. This was a mental figment, which Jesus Christ suffered Satan to inject into his holy mind, that he might experience such Temptations, and conquer them for us. So likewise when he transported him into an exceeding high mountain, and there shewed him all the Kingdomes of the World, and the glory thereof; this was but a fiction, a figment and imagination, which Satan (having permission) injected into his holy mind, for it is most certain, that there is no such mountain in the world, where such an object is to be seen, much less in a moment of time to be performed, as Luke saith it was,