Of Christ, first, wherein would have been the sin of turning stones into bread, i. 270 ; it would have been following the devil's advice, ib. ; would have implied doubt of the voice heard at his baptism, ib. ; distrust of God's fatherly providence, ib. ; would have been an act of vainglory, ib. ; Christ's answer, 272.
Of Christ, second, i. 276 ; Satan })robably permitted to carry him through the air, 277 ; cunning of it, 278 ; if he had thrown himself down, and had failed, and died of the fall, Satan would have triumphed ; if he had escaped, he had still submitted to the devil's direction, ib. ; Satan had no power to cast him down, ib. ; tempta- tion backed by a reason taken from scripture, ib. ; wherein his citation faulty, 279 ; mainly in the application, ib. ; soreness of the temj)- tation, 280.
Of Christ, the third, i. 301 ; how the tempter showed him all the kingdoms of the world, 302; promise to give them to Christ false and vain, 303 ; yet there was a colour for it, 304 ; grievousness of, ib. ; represented in a matter grateful and pleasing, ib. ; bait shown before sin suggested, 305 ; does not seek to move by naked words, but by the sight of the thing, ib. ; the tempter asks and promises
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in tlie same breath, 307 ; the request seems small, the promise great, ih. ; Christ's answer to, 313. Temptation to sin must needs prevail with i;s when we have not faith, vi. 402. Faith, where lively and strong, baffles and defeats all, xiii. 333; a
means to discern our faith, 339. The absence of, not grace, xiv. 334. How far God may be said to tempt man, xiv. 353, 3G0. Necessary to the life of faith, xv. 102.
The various ways in which we are tempted of the devil, xvii. 399 ;
reasons why the devil is more terrible and dangerous than any
human power, 400 ; why God permits this, 401 ; how God bridles
and restrains the devil's rage, 403.
Temptations arising from our own hearts, i. 209 ; man's heart fruitful of all
that is evil, ib. ; without the flesh, the world and the devil can have
no power over us, ih. ; the flesh is not neutral, but active in impelling
us to sin, 210 ; of the flesh and the world go in conjunction, and
help each other, ib. ; the propension of corrupt nature to outward
things set at work by hopes and fears, ib. ; these temptations cannot
be avoided so long as any carnal affection remains unmortified, 211.
We should not be dismayed at, i. 216; we have taken an oath to fight
under Christ's banner, ib. ; that is not the happiest condition which
is most quiet and free from the temptations of Satan, ih. ; Jesus
Christ himself was tempted, 217; there are abundance of comforts
under, ib.
Directions how to resist, i. 219 ; be completely armed, ib. ; pray often
for renewed influences, 220 ; resist with a resistance strong and
vehement, thorough and total, constant and perpetual, 221 ; be
watchful, 222 ; be not over-confident or over-diffident, 223 ; be more
solicitous about duties than events, about sins than dangers, ib. ; be
more jealous of Satan's wiles than of his open assaults, 224; beware
of those corruptions that harmonise with the temptation, ih.
Experience of, fits for the ministry, i. 2G1.
Of Christ to be understood literally, i. 268.
Covert, implicit, and indirect, more dangerous than the open, explicit,
and direct, i. 271. The more grievous follow the lighter, and the last assaults and trials
are usually the greatest, i. 307. Of man by man, iv. 87 ; by commands, ih. ; solicitations and entreaties,
80 ; encouragements, ih. To depart frem God's ways, viii. 36 ; from the natural instability of our own hearts, ih. ; from the furious opposition and malice of Satan, 37 ; and his instruments, ib. ; from the example of others, especially those who arc of esteem for godliness, 38 ; from the provi- dence of God, in the manifold disappointments of a good cause, and the success of an evil, ib. The diversity, frequency, and continuation of, should make us Avary,
X. 289. Do not usually enter by the fore-door of reason, but the back-door of sensual appetite and carnal desire, xix. 209. Tfinpting of God, a usual, but a great sin, i. 287 ; is either explicit or implicit, 288. Of Christ in the days of his flesh, i. 288 ; in his state of glory, and with respect to his invisible presence, ib.
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Temptbig of the Holy Ghost, i. 289.
Or proving of God in the way of duty, i. 290 ; allowed in some cases, ib. ; sinful, 291 ; generally by every transgression, ib. ; more par- ticularly by distrust, 292 ; by requiring stronger proofs of his power and presence with us than he alloweth, ib. ; by presumption, 293 ; when we presume upon God's help, forsaking the ordinary means, ib. ; when we expect the end without the means, 294 ; when without call we rush into every danger, ib. ; when we undertake things for which we are not fitted, 295 ; v/hen we come to him with an idol in our hearts, ib. Of God, heinousness of, i. 295; great arrogancy to seek to subject the Lord to our direction, ib. ; great unbelief, 296 ; looseneth the bonds of all obedience, ib. ; great ingratitude, ib. ; wantonness, ib. ; impa- tiency, 297 ; the greatness of the sin seen by the punishment of it, ib. ; safeguards against, 300.