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Events in Christ’s Life
Commentaries on the Gospels
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Order of Contents
Articles 6+
Books 10+
Quotes 2
Latin 1
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Articles
See also commentaries on Matthew, ch. 4 and on Luke, ch. 4.
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1500’s
Knox, John – ‘An Exposition of Matt 4:1-4, Concerning the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness’ (1556) 29 pp. in Works Buy vol. 4, pp. 85-114
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1600’s
Ames, William – Conscience with the Power & Cases Thereof (d. 1633; Leiden, 1639), bk. 2
ch. 7, ‘Of those Temptations which Fight against Faith’
ch. 18, ‘Of Temptations’
by William Paris: ‘Certain collections out of the book of William Paris concerning temptations, and the resisting of them…’
Bale, John – A Brief Comedy or Interlude concerning the Temptation of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ by Satan in the Desert (Wesel, 1647?) 18 pp.
Baxter, Richard – Title 1, The methods of Christ against the Tempter in A Christian Directory (London, 1673), pt. 1, Christian Ethics, ch. 3, The general grand directions for walking with God…, Direction 9. Spend all your days in a skillful, vigilant, resolute and valiant war against the flesh, the world and the Devil…, pp. 104-5
Turretin, Francis – 6. ‘Was Christ caught up into heaven before beginning his public ministry in order to be taught there by the Father? We deny against the Socinians.’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 14th Topic, pp. 395-97
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1700’s
Boston, Thomas – pp. 214-15 of ‘Christ’s Name above every Name’ in Works, vol. 10
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1800’s
Thornwell, James H. – ‘Christ Tempted as the Second Adam’ (1854) ToC in Collected Writings (Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1871), vol. 2, pp. 298-333 American, southern presbyterian
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2000’s
Fentiman, Travis – 13. ‘God, Eve, Temptation, Self-Denial & Christ’ in ‘Using Contraceptives may be in Accord with Natural Law & Scripture: a Response to [Edward] Feser’ (RBO, 2025)
This goes into natural concupiscence (quoting reformed theologians) and how temptation is therein possible, first by looking at unfallen Eve and then Christ.
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Books
1500’s
Udall, John – The Combat betwixt Christ & the Devil, Four Sermons upon the Temptations of Christ in the Wilderness by Satan… (London, 1588?) 155 pp. ToC Outline
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1600’s
Perkins, William – The Combat between Christ & the Devil Displayed: or a Commentary upon the Temptations of Christ (d. 1602) 54 pp. Outline Index: Subject, Scripture
Cowper, William – A Treatise of Christ’s Temptation in Three Heavenly Treatises, concerning Christ: 1. His Genealogy, 2. His Baptism, 3. His Combat with Satan… (London, 1612), pp. 113-261
Cowper was a Scottish bishop.
Dyke, Daniel – Of Christ’s Temptations in Two Treatises, the one of Repentance, the other of Christ’s Temptations (London, 1616), pp. 201-358
Taylor, Thomas – Christ’s Combat & Conquest, or the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Vanquishing the Roaring Lion assaulting him in three most fierce and hellish temptations, Expounded… (Cambridge, 1618) on Mt. 4:1-11 413 pp. ToC Index
Andrewes, Lancelot – Seven Sermons on the Wonderful Combat (for God’s glory and man’s salvation) between Christ and Satan (London, 1627) on Mt. 4:1-11 114 pp. ToC
Fuller, Thomas – A Comment on the Eleven First Verses of the Fourth Chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel concerning Christ’s Temptations, delivered in 12 Sermons… (London, 1652) 188 pp. ToC
Fuller (1607-1661) was a reformed Anglican.
White, Thomas – The Sum of Practical Divinity Practiced in the Wilderness & Delivered by our Savior in his Sermon on the Mount, being Observations upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth & Seventh Chapters of St. Matthew (1653)
Gumbleden, John – Christ Tempted: the Devil Conquered. Or, A Short and Plain Exposition on a Part of the Fourth Chapter St. Matthew’s Gospel: Together with two sermons preached before the University at Oxford some years since (London, 1657)
Gumbleden (1598 or 9-1657) was an English chaplain.
Nevay, John – 32 Sermons on Christ’s Temptation (†1672)
Hacket, John – 21 Sermons upon our Savior’s Tentation in A Century of Sermons upon Several Remarkable Subjects (1675) Westminster divine
Manton, Thomas – Christ’s Temptation & Transfiguration Practically Explained & Improved in Several Sermons (d. 1677; London, 1685) 207 pp. ToC in Works, vol. 1, p. 258-336
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1800’s
Krummacher, F.W. – Christ in the Wilderness (London: James Nisbet, 1837) 90 pp. no ToC
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Quotes
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Rutherford
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1600’s
Andrew Rivet
The Orthodox Catholic Opposite the Papist Catholic (1630), Question 14, ‘On Concupiscence, or the remnants of original sin in the regenerated man’, p. 13 trans. AI
“We say, therefore, that temptation which proceeds from an external principle, if it finds nothing in us which inclines to evil or delights in it, cannot have the nature of sin. Thus the Devil could tempt Christ, and present various objects to his eyes and imagination, but he had no power in him, who lacked all vicious inclination.
The case is different with our inclination and internal movements, which when the Devil moves, indeed even if they are not moved by the Devil, are nevertheless sins, as we have proved.”
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Samuel Rutherford
A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist… (1648), pt. 1, p. 166
“There was a comparative self-denial required in Adam, and is in the man Christ and the elect angels, though no sinful self was in any of these three, and it is that the sinless creature should yield its being, lust [cravings], will and desires rather to be trampled on, despised or turned to nothing before God be dishonored.”
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Latin Article
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – Of the Temptation in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2 Abbr.
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