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Rh 10. The axe.) Here Preachers are taught to dehort from doing evil for feare of Hel, and to exhort to doe good in hope of Heaven: which kind of preaching our Adver. doe condemne.

11. In water.) Johns Baptisme did not remit sinnes, nor was comparable to Christs Baptisme, as here it is playne, & in manie other places. Hiero. adv. Lucifer. Aug. de Bap. cont. Donat. li. 5. c. 9. 10. 11. Yet is it an article of our Adv. that th’one is no better then the other which they say not to extol Johns, but to derogate from Christs baptisme, so farre, that they make it of no more valure or efficacie for remission of sinnes, & grace and justification, then was Johns: thereby to maintaine their manifold heresies, that Baptisme taketh not away sinnes; that a man is no cleaner nor juster by the Sacrament of Baptisme then before; that it is not necessarie for children unto salvation, but it is enough to be borne of Christian parents; & such like erroneous positions wel knowen among the Calvinists.

12. Floore.) This floore is his Church militant here in earth, wherein are both good and bad (here signified by corne and chaffe) til the separation be made in the day of judgement: contrarie to the doctrine of the Heretikes, that hold, the Church to consist only of the good.

16. Opened.) To signifie that Heaven was shut in the old law, til Christ by his Passion opened it, and so by his Ascension was the first that entered into it; contrarie to the doctrine of the Heretikes. See Hebr. 9, 8. and 11, 40.

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HEN * was led of the Spirit into the ″ desert, to be tempted of the Divel. And when he had ″ fasted fourtie daies and fourtie nights, afterward he was hungrie. And the tempter approched and said to him: If thou be Sonne of God, commaund that these stones be made bread. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Then the Divel tooke him up into the holy citie, and set him upon the pinnacle of the Temple, and said to him: If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy self downe, for ″ it is written: That he wil give his Angels charge of thee, & in their hands shal they hold thee up, least perhaps thou knock thy foote against a stone. sayd to him againe: It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Againe the Divel tooke him up into a very high mountaine: and he shewed him the Kingdoms of the world, and the glorie of them, and sayd to him: Al these wil I give thee, if faling downe thou wilt adore me. Then saith to him: Avant Satan; for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and ″ him onely shalt thou serve. Then the Divel left him; and behold Angels came, and ministred Rh