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

Thirdly, Christs Answer: Ver. 4. And he answered and said, It is written, Man ⟨p. 40⟩liveth not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Christs Answer is not made to that part of the proposal, If thou be the son of God; but to the urgent necessity of his refection. The former was clear and evident, the force of the temptation lay not there; but the latter, which Satan sought to make most Advantage of, is clearly refuted: Christs Answer is taken out of Deut. 8. 3. And this Answer is not given for the Tempters sake, but ours; that we may know how to answer in like Cases, and repel such kind of temptations. In the place quoted, Moses speaketh of Manna, and showeth how God gave his people Manna from Heaven, to teach them, that though bread be the ordinary means of sustaining man, yet God can feed him by other means, which he is pleased to make use of to that purpose. His bare word, or nothing; all cometh from his divine power and virtue, whatever he is pleased to give for the sustentation of Man, ordinary or extraordinary. The tempter had said, that either he must die for hunger, or turn stones into bread: Christ showeth that there is a middle between both these extremes. There are other ways which the Wisdom of God hath found out, or hath appointed by his Word, or decreed to such an end, and ⟨p. 41⟩maketh use of, in the course of his Providence. And the instance is fitly chosen, for he that provided forty years for an huge multitude in the desert, he will not be wanting to his own Son, who had now fasted but forty days. In the words there is

Thirdly, Christs Answer: Ver. 4. And he answered and said, It is written, Man ⟨p. 40⟩liveth not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Christs Answer is not made to that part of the proposal, If thou be the son of God; but to the urgent necessity of his refection. The former was clear and evident, the force of the temptation lay not there; but the latter, which Satan sought to make most Advantage of, is clearly refuted: Christs Answer is taken out of