The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECTION XI.

MATTH. Chap. 4. from the beginning to Ver. 12.

MARK Chap. 1. Ver. 12, 13.

LUKE Chap. IV from the beginning to Ver. 14.

The Seed of the Woman and the Serpent combating.

MARK and LUKE by these words, immediately the Spirit driveth him, and Jesus re∣turned from Jordan, do make the order necessary: so that as for the subsequence of this to what preceded there can be no scruple. Only there is some difference 'twixt Mat∣thew and Luke in relating the order of the temptations: which Matthew having laid down in their proper rank [as appeareth by these particles then, ver. 15. and again ver. 8.] Luke in the rehearsing of them, is not so much observant of the order [that being fixed by Matthew before,] as he is careful to give the full story, and so to give it, as might re∣dound to the fullest information.

As our Mother Eve was tempted by Satan to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, as 1 Joh. 2. 16. [for she saw it was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, Gen. 3. 6.] so by these, had it been possible, would the same tempter have overthrown the seed of the woman: For he tempted him to turn stones into bread, as to satisfie the longing of the flesh; to fall down and worship him upon the sight of a bewitching object to his eyes, and to fly in the air in pride, and to get glory among men. Luke for our better observing of this parallel, hath laid the order of these temptations answerable to the order of those.

Jesus being baptized about the Feast of Tabernacles, toward the latter end of our Sep∣tember, is presently carried into the Wilderness of Judea, by the acting of the Holy Spirit, to enter that combate with the Serpent which was designed, Gen. 3. 15. Forty days and forty nights [He being all the while in watching, fasting and solitude, and among the

wild beasts, but sate as Adam among them in innocency] the Devil tempteth him invisi∣bly as he doth other men, namely, striving to inject sinful suggestions into him, but he could find nothing in him to work upon, as Joh. 14. 30. therefore at forty days end he taketh another course, and appeareth to him visibly in the shape of an Angel of Light [and so had Eve been deceived by him, mistaking him for a good Angel] and trieth him by perswasion, by Scripture, and by power, but in all is foiled, mastered and banished by a word.