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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	able_a	abraham_n	stone_n	33	3	7.0875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85774	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.	Gumbleden, John, 1598 or 9-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2232; Thomason E912_11; ESTC R207548	83,000	98

Divels suit nay this was the Divels sauciness and therein his subtle policy resolving thereby to remove and withdraw our Saviour when he saw him hungry from his Filial confidence in the All-sufficient providence of his Father The Sum the first Temptation and to perswade him to doubt both of his Care and also of his power to relieve him and thereupon to make use of unlawful means to relieve himself He said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say but the word onely and it shall be done such a perswasion it seems the Divel had of the great power of the Son of God although he doubted if thou be whether he whom he then tempted were that Person or not he doubted yet surely more out of malice then out of ignorance for he could not but know that even that very Person whom he then tempted to a distrustfulness in his Father's Providence was that very Son of God And this he could not but know and that 1. By what was written of him in the Prophets as Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his Name g Isa 7.14 Emanuel Wonderful enough it was that a Virgin should bear a son more wonderful that this Son should be Emanuel God with h Mat. 1.23 us which being revealed in the Prophets could not be concealed from Satan nor the place of his Birth and thou i Mich. 5.2 Bethleem Ephratah c. both being fulfilled some thirty yeers before this Tempter came unto him and said for a Virgin did bear a Son even Emanuel God with us from the very day of his Birth and at Bethleem she did bear that k Luk. 2.4 5 7. Son which the Divel knew when his instrument Herod slew all the young children l Mar. 2.16 there for this one young Child's sake who had he been first destroyed the rest had not been destroyed Herod sent forth others about this business the Divel sent forth Herod knowing that the Son of God was even then Incarnate although he knew not well where to find him being but then an Infant nor of what Virgin he was born that being concealed from him even by the Espousals of Joseph and Mary But now 2. finding him in the Wilderness grown up both to the full Age and stature of man he could not but know that this was he of whom the Father some forty daies before testified from Heaven that this was his beloved m Son Mar. 3.17 a true saying and worthy of all acceptation though it were of no credit at all with Satan who here subtilly pretends ignorance rather pravae dispositionis then purae negationis If thou be the Son of God and nothing will satisfie him in this matter but a miracle wrought by our Saviour and that upon this motion too as a more manifest demonstration of his Deity Impudent Satan why requirest thou a Miracle knowest thou not that miracles are extraordinarily wrought rather to n Fidei sunt praestanda signa non dolis Credentidanda sunt non Tentant Chrysolog de jejun tentat Christi Serm. 11. confirm the faith of those that believe in Jesus then to gratifie such as defie and abhor the saving Name of Jesus and yet requirest thou a Miracle who hast no faith at all to believe in him who is the Author of it and of whom thou requirest it Impudent Satan or thinkest thou that the Son of God will become obedient unto thee and turn stones into bread to gratifie thee whereas in respect of any want in himself there was no need at all of such a Miracle no need at all for he that is the bread of life as he witnesseth of himselt Joh. 6.48 could not want o Verè panis non indiget pane Chrysol ubi supra Serm. 11. bread though he were hungry he that had a Provident Father to provide for him could not want sufficient sustenance no not in the Wilderness nay he that could turn stones into bread as thou thy self rightly supposest or else why requiredst thou such a Miracle of him unless thou didst it by way of Ironie of Taunt and Scoffe If thou be even he was able also to turn want into plenty emptiness into fulness as able to doe this then as afterwards to turn water into p Joh. 2.9 wine nay as able as of stones to raise up children unto q Math. 3.9 Abraham able to doe that able to doe this if there had been cause but in this particular case plain it is that there was no cause at all and to doe it when there was no cause to doe it had been doubting of his watchful care and providence over him to offend his Father which he would not doe by using unlawful means and unwarantable so long as there was any other way to relieve himself and therefore Satan thy so much desired provision to be procured for him by a Miracle in testimony of his Deity which at this time wanted no such testimony was not at all necessary since there was every way enough provided for him by his Father without it and thou temptest him in vain to grant that which there was no cause to grant notwithstanding he were every way most powerful to doe what thou requiredst But what wilt thou infer thence wilt thou Conclude as thine own words If th●u be seem to imply that the Person whom thou temptest is not the Son of God because at thy command he will not distrust in God and turn stones into bread shall not the Lord Jehovah be God unless Baal subscribe unto it must If thou be the Son of God be resolved preposterously into thou art not the Son of God if Satans demand be not granted and his curiosity satisfied Monstrous whereas to have done what the Divel demanded had been altogether to derogate from the glory of the Son of God for whom it was as improper in any thing to become obedient unto Satan such was the Case here as most proper it was for him in every thing to continue constant in his Filial obedience unto his Father as he did for not at all regarding what Satan should judge of him for not complying with him he utterly refused to obey his voice and none of his Charms none of his Temptations none of his Baits none of his fair words in his sense capable of a fowl Construction could any waies prevail with him or remove and unrivet him which was so much desired by the Divel from his unshaken Confidence and assurance in his Father's providence who he was perswaded was able to provide for his Son in this his hunger even without his own particular assistance which had been to doubt of his Father's providence by turning stones into bread Lo this was the Divels motion If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread Command the work to be done was left