Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations: In Three PartsGilpin, Richard
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Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations: In Three Parts
Gilpin, Richard
Devil -- Early works to 1800; Temptation -- Early works to 1800
CHAPTER IV.—The fourth circumstance, the end wherefore
Christ was led to the wilderness—Holiness, employment,
privileges, exempt not from temptation—Of temptations
that leave not impressions of sin behind them—How Satan’s
temptations are distinguished from the lusts of our own
heart, 322-328
CHAPTER V.—Of Christ’s fast, with the design thereof—Of
Satan’s tempting in an invisible way—Of his incessant
importunities, and how he flies when resisted—Of inward
temptations, with outward afflictions—Several advantages
Satan hath by tempting in affliction, 328-336
CHAPTER VI.—That Christ’s temptations were real, and not in
vision—That temptation is Satan’s employment, with the
evidences and instances thereof—Of Satan’s tempting visibly,
with the reasons thereof, 337-341
CHAPTER VII.—The general view of these temptations—Of
Satan’s gradual proceeding in temptations—Of reserving a
great temptation last—What a great temptation is; in what
cases to be expected—Of Satan’s using a common road, in
comparing these temptations with the ordinary temptations
of men—Of the advantage Satan takes of natural appetite,
sense, and affections, 341-346
CHAPTER VIII.—The rise of Christ’s first temptation—Of Satan’s
suiting his temptations to the conditions of men—Of tempting
men upon the plea of necessity—The reasons and cheats
of that plea—His pretences of friendship in tempting, with
the danger thereof, 346-350
CHAPTER IX.—A particular consideration of the matter of the
first temptation, what Satan aimed at in bidding him turn
stones into bread—Of Satan’s moving us to things good or
lawful—The end of such a motion—How to know whether
such motions are from Satan or the Spirit—What to do in
case they be from Satan—Of his various aims in one temptation—What
they are, and of his policy therein—Of his artificial
contrivement of motions to make one thing infer
another, 350-355
CHAPTER X.—Of Satan’s chief end in this temptation—His skill
in making the means to sin plausible—The reasons of that
policy, with his art therein—Men’s ignorance his advantage—Of
the differences of things propounded to our use, 355-359
CHAPTER XI.—Of the temptation to distrust upon the failure of
ordinary means—Of the power of that temptation, and the
reasons of its prevalency—Of unwarrantable attempts for
relief, with the causes thereof—Of waiting on God, and
keeping his way—In what cases a particular mercy is to be
expected, 360-367
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