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A15386	A sermon preached at North-Hampton the 21. of Iune last past, before the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and the rest of the commissioners there assembled vpon occasion of the late rebellion and riots in those parts committed	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1607 (1607)	STC 25662; ESTC S121043	15,905	38

why Christ would vouchsafe to giue the diuil any answer at all why did hee not rather answer him with silence as sometimes he answered Caiphas and Pilate to which I answer that as hee was therefore lead into the wildernesse that he might bee tempted so was he therefore tempted that he might giue answer and that partly to auouch his owne wisedome by his answer and also to instruct vs that we in the like case must bee able likewise to make answer Respondit tentatori docens te respondere tentatori saith Saint Austin Christ did answer the tempter to teach thee that thou must answer the tempter also that as Gedeon sayd to his souldiers VVhat yee see mee doe do yee also Iudg. 7. 17. So wee because wee see our Captaine to answer might also learne not Implicitam fidem a faith folded vp in the faith of our fathers or to beleeue as the Church beleeueth but be armed with reason to answer also In the field it is lamentable when the defendors of a iust and lawfull cause are foyled put to flight O Lord what shall I say sayth Ioshua when Israel turne their backes vpon their enemies Ioshu 7. In the Church it is shamefull when men shall maintaine a good cause as Iob did and yet being opposed cannot find an answer and God forbid we should auouch any things in points of faith for which being opposed we cannot answer But in the breast of man it is most fearefull when Satan shall come to tempt or terifie and we like Cain or Iudas are ouercome and cannot answer for if we be bound to answer euery man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in vs. 1. Pet. 3. How much more to answer this tempting and destroying Serpent from whose temptatiō no man can promise himselfe freedom or imunity But say Christ would answer the Diuell yet why after so milde and gentle a fashion why rather did hee not bid him be packing as he did somtime to Peter Get thee behind me Sathan thou art an offence vnto me Mat. 16. Yea why did he not torment him for his pride presumption in tempting him why did he not throw him into the deepe for laying vnholy hands for breathing those impure blasts vpon him thus we imagin God like our selues for Michael the Archangell though hee stroue against the Diuell yet would not reuile him Iud. 9. nor would Christ call for fire from heauen to consume the Samaritans albeit they shut their dores vpon him Luc. 9. for he came not now to iudge but to saue he came not as one day he shall with fire before him but he came like a Lambe lowly to his inferiors gentle to his enemies and affable to all which first addeth strength to the faith of man in the act of Inuocatiō for if the enemy receiued a gentle answer euen when he came to destroy much more shall they that deuoutly seeke vnto him beside it giueth to great personages Iudges and Magistrates in their places an honorable patterne of piety cheerfully to accept gently to answer the cries petitions iust complaints of the poore which stand in need of them as they stand in need of God come kneeling to them as they kneele to God when at any time they grow weary of this they may doubt they haue forgotten him who exalted thē for this feare least they be forgottē whē they faile in this Now for the maner of Christs answer to the diuill ye see he doth not teach vs to repell or chase him away as they do at Rome with Tapers holy water or with hanging out a crucifix but by scriptum est the written word of God for what cares the diuill for a candle or for holy water or what cares he for a Crucifix which is but an image of Christ who according to some of their own doctors did not feare to lay foule Hugo Cardin. sup Math 4. Assumpsit eum bracchijs suis hands vpon the sacred body of Christ but as when Ioshua fained to run away from the men of Ai hee did by that meanes disranke them bring a greater slaughter on them Iohn 8. so when the diuill faineth to be afraide of such things it is but a slie deuise to wrappe men more deeply in the snares of superstition Neither yet doth Christ answer the Diuill by Factum est by doing the thing required that is turning stones into bread but hee answereth him by scriptū est by shewing him what is written no doubt Christ could haue turned the stones and the stones being commanded must haue obeied him for when the Prophet cryed out against Ieroboams altar the ashes fell out and the Altar rent in sunder 1. King 13. but behold a greater then the Prophet was here who when himselfe cryed out his last crye vpon the Crosse the vale of the Temple rent the earth did quake the stones did cleaue in sunder Math. 27. yea surely hee that of water made wine could also if it had so pleased him of stones haue made bread yea he could of stones haue made men euen of stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham Math. 3. but why then did he not surely the Friers tell vs a prety reason That Christ would not turne stones into bread at the diuels request Royard Dominica 1. Quadragesimae but rather stay a yeare longer to turne water into wine at his Mothers request that so to her to the Virgin Mary and not to the Diuill might be dedicated the first fruites of his miracles as if Christ had dedicated miracles to his Mother or had in the miracle of water turned to wine intended the magnifying of his Mother who when shee mooued vnto him the want of wine receaued an answer some-thing regardlesse of her VVoman what haue I to doe with thee Ioh. 2. 4. but a better reason of that miracle is gathered out of the eleuenth verse where it is sayde the miracle being done that his Disciples beleeued on him but how Nunquid crediturus erat diabolus saith Saint Austin would the Diuill haue beleeued if Christ had turned stones into bread surely no and therefore as he would shew no miracle to Herod because he asked it idly and curiously Luc. 23. so neither is any miracle to bee shewed to the Diuill nor any Pearle to be cast before such Swine as there is no hope to conuert or edifie or say there were hope yet Scriptum est the Law and the Prophets are more effectuall saith Abraham then if one should rise from the dead yea if they will not heare Moses and the Prophets neither will they bee perswaded though one rise from the dead Luc. 16. and generally by example of Christ it is so much better to contend with authority of scriptures then with powre of miracles by how much Christ preferred Scriptum est before turning stones into bread Neither yet doth Christ answer the Diuill by vnwritten verities as they do