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

1. The Rebuke showeth Christs Indignation against Idolatry, Get thee hence Satan. This was not to be endured. Twice ⟨p. 156⟩Christ useth this form of Speech, [Greek or Hebrew], to Satan tempting him to Idolatry here, and when his servant dissuaded him from suffering, Mat. 16. 23. Get thee behind me satan, for thou art an offence to me, for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. This suggestion entrenched or touched upon the Glory of God, the other upon his love to Mankind, and Christ could endure neither; Satan is commanded out of his Presence with Indignation. The same zeal we see in his servants, in Moses in case of Idolatry, Exod. 32. 19. He brake the Tables: So in case of contradiction to the Faith of Christ, Paul taketh up Elimas, Acts 13. 10. O full of subtlety and all mischief! thou child of the devil! thou enemy of all righteousness! wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Open Blasphemy must be abhorred, and needeth not only a Confutation but a Rebuke. Besides, it was an impudent demand of Satan to require Adoration from him, to whom Adoration is due from every Creature; to ask him to bow down before him, to whom every knee must bow: and therefore a bold temptation must have a peremptory Answer. There is no mincing in such cases. It is no way contrary to that Lenity that was in Christ; and it teacheth us in ⟨p. 157⟩such open cases of Blasphemy and downright sin, not to parley with the Devil but to defy him.

1. The Rebuke sheweth Christs Indignation against Idolatry, Get thee hence Satan. This was not to be endured. Twice ⟨p. 156⟩Christ useth this form of Speech, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to Satan tempting him to Idolatry here, and when his servant disswaded him from suffering,