comes down into the _High Places_ of our Air,
from whence the Devil shall then be banished, there shall be no Devil
within the Walls of that Holy City. _Amen, Even so Lord Jesus, Come
quickly._

II. Any other acknowledgments of the Lord Jesus Christ, will be
permitted by the Temptations of the Devil, provided those
Acknowledgments of him, which are _True_ and _Full_, may be thereby
prevented. What was it, that the Devil hurried our Lord Jesus Christ
unto the Top of the _Temple_ for? Surely it could not meerly be to find
_Precipices_; any part of the Wilderness would have afforded _Them_. No,
it was rather to have _Spectators_. And why so, Why, the carnal Jews had
an Expectation among them; that _Elias_ was to fly from Heaven to the
Temple; and the Devil seems willing, that our Lord should be cry'd up
for _Elias_, among the giddy multitude; or any thing in the World, tho
never so considerable otherwise, rather than to be received as the
Christ of God. The Devil will allow his Followers to think very highly
of the Lord Jesus Christ; O but he is very lothe to have them think,
_All_. We read in _Col. 1.19._ _It has pleased the Father, that in Him
there should all Fullness dwell._ But it is pleasing to the Devil that
we deny something of the Immense _Fullness_, which is in our Lord. The
Devil would confess to our Lord, _Thou art the Holy One of God!_ but
then he claps in, _Thou art Jesus of Nazareth;_ which was to conceal our
Lords being _Jesus of Bethlehem_, and so his being, _The True Messiah_.
All the _Heresies_, and all the Persecutions, that ever plagued the
Church of God, have still been, to strike at some _Glory_ of our Lord
Jesus Christ. A CHRIST Entirely Acknowledged, will save the Souls of
them that so Acknowledge Him; but, says the Devil, _Whatever tides I
must not give way to that._ As they say, the Devil makes Witches unable
to utter all the _Lords Prayer_, or some such System of Religion,
without some Deprevations of it; thus the Devil will consent that we may
make a very large Confession of the Lord Jesus Christ; only he will have
us to deprave it, at least in some one Important Article. Some one
Honour, some one Office, and some one _Ordinance_ of the Lord Jesus
Christ, must be always left unacknowledged, by those that will do as the
Devil would have them.

III. _High Stations_ in the Church of God, lay men open to violent and
peculiar _Temptations_ of the Devil. When our Lord was upon the
_Pinacle_, that i