Christ and the Christian in Temptation

Counsel and consolation for the tempted

The design of the present volume is not to examine the various hypotheses advanced as to the mode by which the Son of God was assailed by Satan in the wilderness. Accepting, as the author unhesitatingly does, the received and orthodox opinion that the Temptation, as narrated by the Evangelist, is not allegorical, but what it professes to be, a veritable fact, — the representation, not of a mythical, but of an actual transaction, — he finds no difficulty in presenting it in a point of light which he does not remember to have seen hitherto attempted, viz., the identity, in all its essential features, of Christ’s temptation and those of the Christian.

• The Tempter, Occasion, and Scene of Christ’s Temptation
• Christ and the Christian Tempted to Distrust Divine Providence
• Christ and the Christian Tempted to Self-Destruction
• Christ and the Christian Tempted to False and Idolatrous Worship
• Christ and the Christian Tempted With Worldly Grandeur and Possession
• The Sympathy of Angels with Christ and the Christian in Temptation
• The Sympathy of Christ with the Christian in Temptation
• The Final Overthrow of the Tempter and Blessedness of the Tempted