s not the _Fane_, or _Spire_, but the _Battlements_ of
the _Temple_, there did the Devil pester him, with singular
Molestations, and he therein seems to intend an Entanglement for the
Jews, as well as for our Lord. Believe me they that stand High, cannot
stand safe. The Devil is a _Nimrod_, a mighty Hunter; and common or
little Game, will not serve his Turn: he is a _Leviathan_, of whom we
may say, as in _Job. 41.34._ _He beholds all high things._ Men of high
Attainments, and Men of high Employments, in the Church of God, must
look, like _Peter_ to be more _Sifted_, and like _Paul_, to be more
_Buffeted_ than other Men. _Ferunt Summos Fulmina Montes._----The Devil
can raise a Storm, when God permitteth it, but as for those Men that
stand near Heaven, the Devil will attack them with his most cruel storms
of Thunder and Lightening. It was said, _let him that standeth take
heed;_ but we may say, _They that stand most high, have cause to take
most heed._ The Devil is a _Goliah_; and when he finds a _Champion_,
he'l be sure most fiercely to Combate such a Man. He is for, _Killing
many Birds with one stone_; and he knows that he shall hinder a world
of _Good_, and produce a world of _Ill_, if once he can bring a Man
Eminently Stationed into his Toyls. Hence 'tis that the _Ministers_ of
God, are more dogg'd by the Devil, than other persons are. Especially
such _Ministers_, as more in the highest Orb of Serviceableness; and
most of all such _Ministers_ as have spent many years in Laudable
Endeavours to be serviceable; Those Ministers are the _Stars_ of Heaven,
at which the _Tayl_ of the _Dragon_, will give the most sweeping and
most stinging strokes; the Devil will find that for them, that shall
make them _Walk softly_ all their Days. These are the Men, that have
creepled, and vexed the Devil more than other Men; for which the Devil
has an old Quarrel with them. O Neighbours, little do you think, what
black Days of Mourning, and Fasting, and Praying before the Lord, a
Raging Devil does fill the lives of such _Men of God_ withall.

IV. The Devil will make a deceitful and unfaithful use of the
_Scriptures_ to make his _Temptations_ forceable. When the Devil
Solicited our Lord, unto an evil thing, he quoted the _Ninty First_
Psalm unto him, tho' indeed he fallaciously clip'd it, and maim'd it, of
one clause very material in it. O never does the Devil make such
dangerous Passes at us, as when he does wrest our _own Sword_ out of our