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

3. When he had tempted him with the most ravishing sight of the worlds glory, then he tempts him to get it upon any Terms, even to take it at the usurping ⟨p. 62⟩hand and gift of the Devil, and to do homage to the Devil for his preferment, as if he should say, do but thank me, and acknowledge me so far, and I will give thee it all. Men will do any thing for a Kingdom, or a Popedom, &c. but Jesus Christ despised them all, and hath conquered this tickling Temptation.

3. When he had tempted him with the most ravishing sight of the worlds glory, then he tempts him to get it upon any Terms, even to take it at the usurping ⟨p. 62⟩hand and gift of the Devil, and to do homage to the Devil for his preferment, as if he should say, do but thank me, and acknowledge me so far, and I will give thee it all. Men will do any thing for a Kingdome, or a Popedome, &c. but Jesus Christ despised them all, and hath conquered this tickling Temptation.

4. The fourth general consideration, see the constant way by which the Lord Jesus doth answer, expel, and conquer every kind of Temptation, viz. by resisting it by the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. The Scripture is a weapon mighty through God, and if we be diligent it is always ready at hand, for our use and defence, when all our actions and conflicts are regulated by a command, the promise will ever be ready to assist, and protect us.

4. The fourth general consideration, see the constant way by which the Lord Jesus doth answer, expel, and conquer every kind of Temptation, viz. by resisting it by the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. The Scripture is a weapon mighty through God, and if we be diligent it is alwayes ready at hand, for our use and defence, when all our actions and conflicts are regulated by a command, the promise will ever be ready to assist, and protect us.