Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

II. That he citeth such a Scripture, which exceedingly conduceth to commend the happiness of the godly; for God will not only be the Keeper and Guardian of them that fear him, but hath also appointed the Ministry of Angels; and the Argument of the tempter ⟨p. 60⟩seemeth to be taken from the less to the greater: for if it be true of every one that trusts in God, and dwelleth in the shadow of the Almighty, that God will have such a care of him, much more will he have a care of his beloved son, in whom he is well pleased. Therefore you that are declared to be so from Heaven, and having such an occasion to show your self to be the son of God, with so much honour and profit; Why should you scruple to cast your self down?

II. That he citeth such a Scripture, which exceedingly conduceth to commend the happyness of the godly; for God will not only be the Keeper and Guardian of them that fear him, but hath also appointed the Ministry of Angels; and the Argument of the tempter ⟨p. 60⟩seemeth to be taken from the less to the greater: for if it be true of every one that trusts in God, and dwelleth in the shadow of the Almighty, that God will have such a care of him, much more will he have a care of his beloved son, in whom he is well pleased. Therefore you that are declared to be so from Heaven, and having such an occasion to shew your self to be the son of God, with so much honour and profit; Why should you scruple to cast your self down?

But wherein was the devil faulty in citing the Scripture? some say in leaving out those words in all thy ways. This was Bernards gloss: in viis, non in praecipitiis: will keep you in your ways, or duties, not in your headlong actions, these were none of his ways to throw himself down from the battlements of the Temple. This is not to be altogether rejected because it reaches the sense, yet this omission was not the devils fault in citing this Scripture, for all thy ways signifieth no more but in all thy actions and businesses, and that is sufficiently implied in the words cited by Satan. But the devils error was in application. He applieth the Word of God, not to instruct but deceive, rather to breed a contempt, disdain, and hatred of Scriptures, then a reverend