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A40659	A comment on the eleven first verses of the fourth chapter of S. Matthew's Gospel concerning Christs temptations delivered in XII sermons at St. Clements, Eastcheap, London / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2421; ESTC R31517	55,746	204

this well and drank thereof himself But may we not say seriously and sadly to the modern proud and peevish Antinomians Are ye greater then Christ himself who as God gave us the Law and as man drank himself thereof and because made under the Law Gal. 4.4 made the Law the the Square whereby he regulated his actions alleadging the same to deter himself here from Presumption It is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Now whereas Moses Deut. 6.16 hath it in the plural Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God and our Saviour assesseth it in the singular Thou shalt not tempt c. we learn General precepts promises and threatnings in Scripture must be particularized to every person In Precepts Psal. 27.8 When thou sayst Seek YE my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Proportionably whereunto In Promises Matth. 11.29 And ye shall finde rest for YOUR souls Our heart should say And I shall finde rest for MY soul In Threatnings Rom. 8.13 If YE live after the flesh ye shall die Our heart should say If I live after the fresh I shall die This serveth to discover the vanity of the Popish cavil That single persons have no particular promise to bottom their faith upon It is confess'd nor is it necessary seeing Gods promises run all in general terms Ho everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters Isai. 55 1. Whosoever believeth on him shall not perish Joh. 3.10 Well then may a man by a lively faith inclose these common promises to himself and bring his bucket to that fountain which is opened for Iudah and Ierusalem Now that my sword may cut on both sides as causlesly doth T. C. carp at the practice of our English Church for saying to every particular Communicant Take and eat when Christ said it but once to all his disciples As if we may not as warrantably pronounce the words to every single Receiver as our Saviour in my Text changed Ye into Thou a general into a personal precept to his own soul Now whereas Christ countermined Satan with alleadging Gods Word I observe Though Scripture cannot be brought against Scripture to cross it it may and must be brought unto Scripture to clear it I say cannot be brought For God is the God 1. of Unity and therefore will not indite Discord and Con●tradiction 2. of Verity and therefore will not affirm a falshood and such must one of the Propositions be of necessity in all real and direct Contradictions I confess some seeming contradictions not casually scattered but designedly placed by Gods providence in his Word First To what and exercise our diligence and industry Secondly To raise the reputation of Scripture seeing through mans corruption Intellecta ab omnibus sunt neglecta à plurimis What all understand many undervalue Thirdly To render the profession of the Ministery necessary were it but to reconcile those contradictions to the capacities of their people For these and other Reasons some seeming contrarieties appear in Scripture but directly and diametrically Gods Word cannot be brought against his Word to cross it though it may be brought unto it to clear it Compare Scripture with Scripture and one place will receive light from and return it to another Many have written excellent Comments on the 91 Psalm both Fathers Papists and Protestants But give me Moses on David who though writing before him wrote both with the same Spirit to which there is neither Before nor After How excellently is David's promise expounded by Moses's precept That all assurance of Angelical protection must not thrust us on unnecessary dangers for fear of temptiug the Lord It is tempting of God to do that per saltum with a leap which He will have done by degrees Now suppose one on the top of an high wall or hill there are three ways for his coming down 1. Ordinary by the stayrs from the wall and from the hill by surrounding the sides thereof where it is least steep and precipitous 2. Industrious Understand ye hereby by a way out of the common road unusual but neither unlawful nor miraculous acquired by mens pains and brains in case of extremity Thus when Saint Paul 2. Cor. 11.33 had his life way-layed for by King Aretas in the City of Damascus his way from the wall by the stayrs was obstructed where souldiers were set to surprize him What then did Paul presently vault from the wall and cast himself desperately into the embraces of a miracle Oh no The brethrens brains being at a loss beat about and according to the promise * It shall be given you in the self-same hour discover an expedient and let him down through a window in a basket 3. Miraculous when all other ways fail Thus our Saviour Luke 4.29 being brought to the brow of an hill whence the Nazarites intended to cast him down headlong passed but which way God knows thorow the midst of them Thus when the disciples were in danger of drowning in a tempest there being a necessity of Christs coming to comfort them and no ship at hand to waft him over unto them he miraculously did walk on the water Matth. 14.25 who in my text refused to flie thorow the air though both motions we●e equally easie unto him Chiefly because now the way lay open for his safe and easie descending by the stayrs of the temple It serveth to confute the pride impatience and laziness of such who will not go pede-tentim fair and softly in the path and pace of Gods appointing but offended at the pretended tediousness thereof embrace more compendious courses of their own devising which in fine prove farthest about and never lead with comfort to their desired ends We meet with a Speculative Stayr-case of Gods own Architecture reaching from heaven to earth and then from earth to heaven again Moreover whom he predestinated them be also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified Rom. 8.30 Now such who will leap instantly from Predestination to Glorification without treading on the intermediate steps betwixt them may be well assured to miss of their desired mark There is also a Practical Stayr-case recommended unto us 2 Pet. 1.5 Adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity Let us thus adde grace to grace and raise our souls to heaven by those degrees which God hath appointed The Proverb is most true in this Haste makes waste whereas He that believeth maketh not haste but leasurely and treatably goeth on in the way of salvation Let not us Pastors begrutch our pains to our People in teaching them as we finde them capable to learn God hath designed unto us herein certain stayrs and steps Isai. 28.10 Precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line