CHAP. VIII. Answers and Resolutions to some subtile Temptations.
AFter the chiefe Priests, Scribes, * 1.1 and Elders had laid before Christ Jesus all the stones of offence and scandall their wits could pick out of the Law, or the Prophets, all which he converted in∣to touch-stones of his wisdome and humility, and so rendred all these try∣alls, attests of his purity and sincerity in these excellent graces; then they ex∣cogitated a more subtile temptation for him; which was, to tempt him by his owne perfections. For then they sent to him some of the Pharisees, * 1.2 and of the Herodians, who were to work upon his tendernesse, and compassion of the publick, to ensnare him by his benig∣nity,