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

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 ⟨p. 61⟩esteem of them, to make the Word of God seem uncertain; or if a reverence of them, to turn this reverence into an occasion of deceit: more particularly to tempt God to a needless proof of his power. We are not to cast our selves into danger, that Providence may fetch us off. God will protect us in the evils we suffer, not in the evils we commit: not in dangers we seek, but such as befall us besides our intention.

But wherein was the devil faulty in citing the Scripture? some say in leaving out those words in all thy wayes. This was Bernards gloss: in viis, non in praecipitiis: will keep you in your wayes, or duties, not in your headlong actions, these were none of his wayes 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 signifyeth no more but in all thy actions and businesses, and that is sufficiently implyed in the words cited by Satan. But the devils errour was in application. He applyeth the Word of God, not to instruct but deceive, rather to breed a contempt, disdain, and hatred of Scriptures, then a reverend ⟨p. 61⟩esteem of them, to make the Word of God seem uncertain; or if a reverence of them, to turn this reverence into an occasion of deceit: more particularly to tempt God to a needless proof of his power. We are not to cast our selves into danger, that Providence may fetch us off. God will protect us in the evils we suffer, not in the evils we commit: not in dangers we seek, but such as befal us besides our intention.