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

2. The Manner of the combat. It was not merely a phantasm, that Christ was thus assaulted and used: No, he was tempted in reality, not in conceit and imagination only. It seemeth to be in the Spirit, though it was real. As Paul was taken up into the third Heaven, whether in the body or out of the body we cannot easily judge, but real it was. I shall more accurately discuss this question afterwards in its more proper place.

2. The Manner of the combate. It was not meerly a phantasm, that Christ was thus assaulted and used: No, he was tempted in reality, not in conceit and imagination only. It seemeth to be in the Spirit, though it was real. As Paul was taken up into the third Heaven, whether in the body or out of the body we cannot easily judge, but real it was. I shall more accurately discuss this question afterwards in its more proper place.

3. What Moved him? Or how was he brought to enter into the lists with Satan? He was led by the Spirit, meaning thereby the impulsion and excitation of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. For it is said Luke 4. 1. Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness. He did not voluntarily put himself upon Temptation, but by Gods appointment went up from Jordan further into the Desert.

3. What Moved him? Or how was he brought to enter into the lists with Satan? He was led by the Spirit, meaning thereby the impulsion and excitation of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. For it is said Luke 4. 1. Iesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Iordan, and was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness. He did not voluntarily put himself upon Temptation, but by Gods appointment went up from Iordan further into the Desart.