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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

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out the very ●ees and dregs of his Indignation Secondly Christ was angry Iohn 2.15 when with a scourge of cords he drave the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple but then it was in his Fathers quarrel whose house of Prayer they had turned into a Den of Theeves Thirdly Mark 3.5 when he had looked round about on the people with anger but for what for any personal Injury they offered him O no but for the hardness of their hearts Lastly When offended with Peter Matth. 16.23 he said unto him Get thee behind me Satan giving Peter worse language for disswading then ever he did Iudas for contriving his passion whom indeed he once called Devil but never bid him Get thee behinde me I will not be over-positive and confident but perchance Christ may be found once again angry in Scripture but this I dare presume to affirm It is not then in his behalf but like meek Moses Numb. 16.15 very worth in the case of Korah when his Fathers honour or our good was interested therein It is written What more Scripture still Enough and too much will some carnal Palate say of the Manna of Gods word now a little of the flesh-pots of Mans Traditions and Inventions were it but for novelty and variety sake O no Christ still keeps himself to his Scripture No wise Souldier will change a tryed sword of whose metal and temper he hath had experience yea which hath proved successful and victorious unto him for a new blade out of the sorge and our Saviour would not quit the sword of the word wherewith he had twice foiled Satan for any new weapon but the third time maketh use thereof Scripture is good to begin with and good to continue with and good to conclude with Some meates are said to be Gold in the morning Silver at noon but Lead at night But Gods Word is Gold in the Morning Gold at Noon Gold at Night yea the more pretious the more it is used Yea it is remarkable Christ took all the three places wherewith he repelled Satan out of one book of Deuteronomy and two of them out of one the sixth chapter thereof Now if the opening of one Box afforded Christ three Antidotes against Sat●ns poyson how many Cordials may the whole Scripture yeeld us especially since the happy addition of the New Testament thereto But as the Devil had formerly cited the text defectively leaving out in all thy ways so our Saviour quotes the same redundantly inserting the word Onely whereon all the hinge of the controversie did depend which if the Original be consulted with Deut. 6.13 appears not at all in the Text contrary to the heavy curse denounced Rev. 22.18 on such as adde any thing to Gods Word Though Onely be not expressed it is implyed in the Text and may be supplied from the context For it followed in the next verse Deut. 6.14 Ye shall not go after other gods Is not this the same in effect You shall serve God onely So when it is sad Exod. 20.3 shalt have no other Gods but me it amounteth to this that we shall serve God onely Explaining of the text by the context is no adding to the text If we Ministers especially in the heat and height of our preaching cite not Scripture Syllabically or verbatim but faithfully render the life and sense thereof some perchance out of the preceding some from the following verses we cannot justly be taxed for fallacious alleadging thereof This will arm us against the unjust cavil of Bellarmine traducing all Protestants and Luther by name for adding to Scripture in maintaining that faith ALONE justifieth We find this Alone though not formally yet equivalently in Gods word Here we will not with some Protestant Divines lay too much stress on that place Luke 8.20 when Christ said to Iairus Beleive ONLY and shee shall be made whole because it relateth not properly and directly to the justifying of Iairus his soul but onely to have that miraculous reviving bestowed on his Daughter But we find Faith ALONE justifiing tantamountingly in Scripture when we read Eph. 2.8 By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast Here as in many other places the total excluding of Works fixeth justification in Faith Alone and Saint Hillary on the 8 of Matthew so false is Bellarmines slander that Luther first made the expression hath the proposition in terminis Fides sola justificat God is not onely to be worshiped eminently above all but also exclusively none besides himself Two things are impatient of a Corrival The Throne and the Marriage-bed God in Scripture shadoweth himself unto us under both these Relations Psal. 89.18 The holy One of Israel is our King Jer. 3.14 Turn O backsliding children saith the Lord for I am married unto you Dream not therefore of conjoyning any other in Worship with him Here some of Solomon's fools though carnally wise might conceive had they been in Christ's place that they had an advantage to enrich and advance themselves cozen and delude Satan and withal please and preserve God their friend save and secure their own conscience Namely thus With their bodies they would fall down and worship Satan and so by the plentiful performance of the condition gain worldly wealth and glory to themselves Mean time they would reserve their hearts which Satan not knowing the secrets thereof could not discover to God alone yea send up an ejaculation to Him in the midst of their corporal prostration to Satan But God is a jealous God and will not thus be abused Should a wife being found in the wanton embraces of another pretend for her self that still her heart was loyal to her husband He should be as very a fool to believe it as she an impudent harlot to affirm it Assure your selves the wise God of heaven will not be abused by such vain palliations nay him onely shalt thou serve To confute such who introduce a Mongrel-medly-Religion as the Colonies substituted in the room of the ten tribes carried away into captivity 2 King 17. And a seeming-contradiction but easily reconciled is remarkable in three verses Vers. 32. They feared the Lord Vers. 33. They feared the Lord and served their own gods Vers. 34. They fear not the Lord All is easily reconciled They feared the Lord SEEMINGLY but because they feared him IOYNTLY with their Idols● they feared him not TRUELY nor ACCEPTABLY Such are they who serve God and Venus their Wantonness God and Bacchus their Drunkenness God and Ceres their Gluttony God and Mars their furious Revenge God and Mercury their Fraudulent and Deceitful dealing Secondly It confutes the practice of Saint-worship amongst the Papists so derogatory to the glory of God Nor let them hope to evade by coining the Distinction which with a broken cistern Jer. 2.13 will not hold water that God is onely to be