Christ Tempted, Title page – To the reader
CHRIST TEMPTED: THE DIVEL CONQUERED. OR, A ſhort and plain EXPOSITION on a part of the fourth Chapter St. MATTHEW'S Goſpel. TOGETHER With two Sermons Preached before the Univerſity at Oxford, ſome years ſince.
By JOHN GUMBLEDEN, B. D. and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the EARL of Leiceſter.
Jam. 5.7.
Reſiſt the Divel, and he will flie from you.
1 Pet. 5.9.
Whom reſiſt ſtedfaſt in the faith.
Ideo tentatur Chriſtus, ne vincatur à Tentatore Chriſtianus. Auguſt. enarratio in Pſal. 90. Concio Secunda. C.
LONDON, Printed for Simon Miller, at the Star in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1657.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE his ſingular good LORD & PATRON ROBERT EARL of Leiceſter, VISCOUNT LISLE, LORD SIDNEY of Penſehurſt, &c. Grace and Peace from the God of Peace.
My Noble LORD,
THat which Solomon ſaith, Eccleſ. 12.12. Of making many books there is no end; I ſuppoſe doth nothing at all concern me; for I have not made many books; and he that begins late, may ſoon end; eſpecially being too too far remote from thoſe uſeful helps of voluminous Writers, many books; yet this have I made, and humbly preſent unto your Lordſhip, is a Teſtimonial of my thankfulneſſe, for your Lordſhip's manifold and Noble favours exhibited unto me. Now ſuch as my ſacred Profeſſion is, ſuch alſo is the Matter and Subject of this I preſent, Theological. An Expoſition it is (ſuch as it is) of what happened in the Wilderneſſe, and other Places, between our Saviour and Satan; Preached at firſt for the inſtruction of my Parochial Cure; but ſince, as touching the more difficult points, ſomewhat enlarged for publique view. Many will ſee it; but my moſt humble ſuit is, that none may own it but your Lordſhip. The Author acknowledgeth, that, under God, be liveth by your Lordſhip's Patronage; may this Book alſo, in another ſenſe, live ſo too. I am,
My Noble LORD, Your Honours moſt obliged Servant and Chaplain, JOHN GUMBLEDEN.
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FINIS.
To the Reader.
Courteous Reader,
THe Subject of this following Expoſition (as you ſee) is the Divels tempting, and our Saviours conquering. Now, in this foreign, or, ſingle conflict, neither the one, nor the other, had each his ſecond: no, not while the Combat continued: but, our Saviour had the Angels aMar. 1.13.to miniſter unto him, when the duell was ended.
Again, when the Divel had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a ſeaſon; bLuke 4.13.And but for a ſeaſon; for though at this time he were ſent away with no better farewell then this, Get thee hence Satan (c)Mat. 4.10.; yet, he ſoon returned, and afterwards by his wicked Inſtruments, as ſubtilly as before by himſelfe openly, he ſets on him again; began another battell againſt him another way; eſpecially ſome few daies before his death; muſtring up from time to time, ſuch voluntiers, dOmne peccatum eſt voluntarium.ſuch as he found moſt inclinable amongſt the malicious and incredulous Jewes, to engage with him in this quarrell againſt our Saviour: to the end, that by his united forces, he might (if poſſible) at laſt prevaile, who at firſt was too weak to doe it ſingle and by himſelf. And not ſtrong enough neither to doe it to purpoſe joyntly by them; not any waies able to conquer our Saviour; not, though for a time, to kill (e)Mat. 26.4.him, the chief Prieſts, the Scribes, the Elders of the people, with Caiaphas, prevailed. Judas betraying him, falſe witneſſe accuſing him; Pontius Pilate condemning him, the ſouldiers crucifying him; yet, all together too weak, to ſubdue, and conquer him, who roſe again the third day from the dead; and the Divel afterwards, never in his own perſon aſſaulted him any more; who, at firſt, after he had tempted him, departed from him, for a ſeaſon; but, our Saviour will never depart from his Church, and Choſen; not, while they are Militant here on earth: Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the fMat. 28.20.world; and, there is no cauſe to fear his departing from us, when we are triumphant in Heaven: where neither ruſt, nor moth doth corrupt, gMat. 6.20.and where thieves do not break through, and ſteal: nor, Satan break through, to tempt, and deſtroy. But, I will not ſay too much by way of Preface, leaſt the Gate become wider then the City: the Introduction, larger then the Expoſition. In brief here, I ſay but this: or, rather the Apoſtle ſaith it, 2 Tim. 2.3. Be thou careful, as a good ſouldier of Jeſus Chriſt, to fight the good fight of h1 Tim 6.12.faith, againſt Satan; and then, in, and, by the power of thy victorious Saviour, thou ſhalt obtain the victory over Satan; which is the dayly prayer of him, for thee, who faithfully believeth, by the ſame power, to be made partaker with thee, of the ſame victory. Amen.
Thine, to accompany thee in the Way to Heaven. JOHN GUMBLEDEN.