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A21038	Tvvo treatises. The one, of repentance, the other, of Christs temptations. Both penned, by the late faithfull minister of Gods worde, Daniel Dyke, Batchelour in Diuinitie. Published since his death by his brother ID. minister of Gods word	Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1616 (1616)	STC 7408; ESTC S100107	213,745	364

tempted to doubt whether we be Gods sonnes For the Diuell as he laboureth to sowe diuision betweene brethren among themselues which is cursed so also that which is yet worse betwixt the father and the sonnes yea betwixt the father and his owne naturall sonne yea betwixt the two natures in Christ personally vnited the man-hood and God-head He would make the man-hood think that the God-head did not sustain it Now if he thus tempted Christs humanity that had that speciall vnion with the second person in the Trinity what then may we looke for whose vnion is not so neere We see how he guls the wicked of the world perswades them being his slaues that they are Gods sonnes being very beggers that they are kings And so why may hee not contrarily perswade Gods sons that they are his slaues Vse 3 3. When there come into our mindes Atheisticall thoughts as to doubt whether Christ bee the sonne of God yea whether there be a God or no let vs know that these are the whisperings of the olde serpent let vs not be discouraged ouer-much since he was thus bold with Christ himselfe Doct. For the second In that he tempts him to doubt of Gods care and prouidence Wee see how the Diuell The second temptation will also trouble vs in this poynt of Gods prouidence for this present life as Dauid was troubled The Diuell would draw vs to a distrust of Gods prouidence Psal 73. Ierem. 12. Rom. 8. 32. Psal 73. and Ieremy Ier. 12. let vs strengthen our faith in Gods mercy for our saluation and we haue made sure worke for this Rom. 8. 32 God hauing giuen vs his sonne how shall hee not with him giue vs all things else The third sinne hee tempts him to was to worke a The third temptation miracle of turning stones into bread and so to haue eaten Quest Quest This seemes no such matter Why might not Christ haue done it lawfully Answ Answ After we haue thoroughly weighed it we shall find a great sinne 1. In regard of the ground distrust in Gods prouidence as though hee would not prouide for him 2. In regard of the action it selfe wherein first our Sauiour should haue allowed of the Diuels lies who required this miracle both as the onely meanes of his life and as a necessary demonstration and proofe of his God-head wickedly tying both the faith of his man-hood and the power of his God-head to bread Secondly the third commandement should haue beene broken and a miracle abused and prophaned 1. Because Sathan is a swine a dogge to whom such pearles such holy things may not bee cast and therefore our Lord would neither gratifie Herod with any miracle nor yet those cruell mockers at his crucifying hee owed them no such seruice Nay when his mother vnseasonably made a motion he checked her that though he wrought the miracle afterward yet it might appeare hee did it as of himselfe as knowing best his owne time and not to be instructed or directed by any 2. Heere was no need of this miracle at this time for first God workes not miraculously when meanes may bee had All the while the prouision of Aegypt lasted Manna rained not nor yet after they were come to haue other prouisiō in Canaan Now Christ was in his fathers appointmēt to come out of the wildernes into such places wher he might haue bread without miracle Secondly miracles are for confirmation of faith but the Diuell is vncapable of faith and then being wrought thus in hugger mugger without the sight of iust witnesses how would it haue confirmed faith Thirdly if Christ should haue wrought miracles for his owne belly it might haue seemed suspicious Wee see in the whole history of the Gospell that though Christs miracles were almners to the poore and Physicians to the sicke and with them hee releeued other sicke bodies and hungry bodies yet neuer his owne He chused rather to liue vpon almes Luc. 8. 1. 2. to begge water of the Samaritan Ioh. 4. Yea of his Luke 8. 1. 2. Ioh. 4. cruell aduersaries on the crosse crying out to them I thirst and imploring their mercy least otherwise he might haue seemed in miracles to haue had Simon Magus his mind and to haue sought in such holy things his own gaine and priuate benefit which had beene abominable Here by the way we may Note note how the Diuell laboreth to make vs prophane holy things by referring them to wrong ends and how he would make vs carnall in things spirituall as heere hee would haue had Christ vsed a miracle which should haue beene for Gods glory and the Churches faith for his bellies sake So perswades he many in preaching in professing in praying to seeke themselues and to serue their owne bellies as those phillipicke preachers did Phil. 1. And thus euen Phil. 1. the action it selfe is vnlawfull 3. It was vnlawfull in regard of two necessary appurtenances to this action 1. Vaine-glory and ostentation If a base fellow should daringly prouoke a wise and graue man of great learning and iudgement and say to him if you be a scholler heere construe this Greeke sentence it would not beseeme the stayednesse of the learned man who had already giuen farre more sufficient testimonies of his learning then that presently to doe the thing required 2. Inordinatenesse of appetite For though in a peece of bread eaten of an hungry man no such gluttony and certainely the Diuell aimed not at this sinne as may appeare by our Sauiours answer yet for all that to haue ones appetite carried by the Diuell and to be at his becke argues inordinatenes of it Thus we see how many sinnes the diuell couched and infolded in this one Doct. It teacheth vs not to measure actions by the outward appearance What a matter is it to eat bread We must no measure actions by the outward appearance when one is hungry but wee see what a matter it would haue beene heere in Christ A little pinne specially being poysoned may pricke mortally as well as a great sword Adams eating the fruit seems a small matter to flesh and blood which wonders that so small a pinne should wound all man-kinde to the death But Adams sinne was not simply the eating of the apple but the eating of the apple forbidden by God There was the deadly poison of that little pinne And there also the Diuell so handled the matter that all the commandements were broken in that one action As the first table in his infidelity doubting both of Gods truth and goodnesse contempt of and rebellion against God preferring of Sathan before God and in the prophanation of that fruit he ate which was a sacrament And for the second table he broke the fift commandement in his vnthankefulnesse to God his father that gaue him his being and had bestowed so many blessings vpon him The sixt in the murther of himself and all his posterity bodie and soule The seauenth in