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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature and Design of Christ's Temptation in the Wilderness
I Vi I manly ajigned for Cbri/t's fubmitting to be tempted by tbe devil in tbc manner generally jitppofed, examined, p. 17. Tbefitfi recjon, ih. Tbe ficond, p. 20. III.' ?/cribes to tbc devil tbe performance of tbe greate/t' miracles, p. 22; tbe power of a/uming a vi/ble form, ib. Of conveying men tbrougb tbe azr, ih. And of [bewing tbem not a jingle country only, but all tbe bingdoms of tbe world, p. 2 5, in a f ngle infiant of time, p. 29. Tbe devil could not tabe Cbri/t to tbe wing of tbc _7ewi/b temple witbout a miracle, p. 2 3, note Tbe ab/urdity of (deribing to tbe devil tbe power 9' peijormz'iig any miracles, p. 29. Arcbbi/bop Secber's folution of tbis ob jeéiion, p. 31, note° IV. A/cribes to tbe devil tbc performance of tbings ab/urd and unpoyfible, jaob as [bewing Cbrul all tbe kingdoms of tbc world from an exceeding bigb mountain, p. 32. In wbat ayes we are to bave recourfe to a figurative jenje in tbc interpretation of Scripture; and bow we are to di?ingui/b wbat is to be literally, and wbat figuratively under?ood, p. 33. V g/ions or re prcfintations made to tbe mind of a propbet, related in Scripture as outward ti'atgfizéizons, p. 'i be rayon ofitbis afigned, p. 35. How to ngui/b tbe narrative of a vi/ion jrem' tbat of an outward occurrence, p. 37. Conn; temptation could not be an outward occurrence, 8.
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