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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

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 f Mat. 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 g Mat. 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 h 1 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 CHRIST TEMPTED the Divell conquered OR A Short and plain Exposition on a part of the fourth Chapter of St. Matthews Gospel In the first Chapter of this Gospel the Evangelist speaketh chiefly of the Genealogie and Birth of Christ In the second of the swise men that came from the East to Jerusalem to worship him and of his speedy flight by night into Egypt for feare of Herod after they had worshipped him In the third of the preaching and Office of John the Baptist the forerunner of Christ who baptized him in Jordan being then about the age of thirty yeers Luke 3.21 23. But in this fourth Chapter a part whereof we have now before us the Evangelist from the first to the twelfth verse beginneth to treat of that which immediately followed afterwards after our Saviour was but then newly baptized of John this Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness to be tempted of the divel v. 1. and when he had fasted fourty daies and fourty nights he was afterwards an hungred v. 2. and this we may properly call the preparation or introduction to the whole following narration both touching the single combat between Satan tempting and our Saviour conquering The whole then being thus divided in generall into an Introduction v. 1 2. and a narration in the nine following verses comprehending therein the happy issue of all on our Saviours part in respect of his conquest and the Angels ministring unto him to congratulate his victory we will examine the words in order beginning vers 1. where there is mention both of the Spirit 's work who led up Jesus into the wilderness and also of the Divels work who afterwards tempted Jesus in the wilderness See! different Agents and as different Actions yet all relating to one and the same Subject even to Jesus led up of the good Spirit into the wilderness and to the same Jesus to be tempted of the evil spirit in the wilderness But perhaps at the first hearing this may seem strange unto you that the Saviour of the world should be tempted by the destroyer of the world yet if we rightly consider the first promise made by God to man of a Redeemer to save man strange it is not and the promise in sense is this The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents a head giving power notwithstanding even by the samo promise to the same serpent to bruise the heel of the womans seed But who properly was the womans seed Surely the Son of God that promised seed who in the fulness of time was made man of a Gen. 3.15 b Gal. 4.4 woman by the powerful overshadowing of the holy c Luke 1.35 ghost according to his Fathers purpose and intention when he first promised him under the name of the seed of the woman and by the Serpent who doubteth but that the Divel is meant who at that time used the serpent both as his Active and Passive Instrument to beguile the woman there being none of the beasts of the field found so fit as the serpent was to express to the life the craftie subtilties of d Gen. 3.1 Satan that old e Reu. 12.9 serpent who is still suffered to Tempt but not suffered to overcome Suffered by many both outward and inward Tryals and Temptations to bruise the heel of the womans seed of Christ in his members which is still acknowledged to be a real tempting of Christ even by Christ himself Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9.4 Satan Satan why temptest thou me but denyed it is to be any Conquering on Satans part either of Christ or his members the faithful the womans seed also by any of those temptations God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are f 1 Cor. 10.13 able that is not so far to be tempted by Satan as to be overcome by Satan So that it is no new thing to hear of the Divels malice either against Christ or against Christians or of the g 1 Pet. 5.8 lyon and that Lyon of the tribe of Juda. Revel 5.5 of the battel between Michael and the h Rev. 12.7 Dragon Or of the wily and subtile practices of the Divel that i Rev 9.11 Apollyon that destroyer of the world against the Son of God made man that Saviour and Redeemer of the world no new thing at all onely to be malitious proper it is to Satan but to be victorius both for himself and us most proper it is to our Saviour for God who said to the serpent I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her k Gen. 3.15 seed never said that the serpent the Divel should bruise the head and finally prevail against the womans seed never said it will never suffer it and if we had no other proof from the holy Text to confirm us in the full assurance thereof yet this Combate here between Christ and the Divel partly in the wilderness v. 4. partly in the holy City on the pinacle of the Temple v. 7. and partly on an exceeding high mountain v. 10. our Saviour in each place prevailing against Satan is abundantly sufficient to strengthen our saith and confidence in this sacred truth but as yet we are no farther then the Introduction the Gate and entrance into both both to the Combate and the Victory Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Divel v. 1.