[Footnote c: _Iosephus +archaiologias+ lib. 7. sectione siue
capite iuxta Græcam editionem 10._]

The first reason of his permission is his inscrutable[d] wisedome, who
out of euill bringeth good; so _Paul_ had a minister of Sathan to buffet
him, to keepe him in humility, that hee might not waxe proude and
high-minded, in regard of those great mysteries which were reuealed when
hee was taken into the third heauen, _2. Corint. 12. 4_. Thus his
tentation was a medicine preseruatiue preuenting the disease of his
soule, which otherwise hee might haue falne into, [e]for both himselfe,
and the rest of the Apostles, though they were chosen vessells, yet were
they also fraile and brittle, wandring yet in the flesh vpon earth, not
triumphing securely in heauen.

[Footnote d: _Zanchius de operibus creationis, part. 1. lib. 4.
cap. 13. apud quem etiam plura inuenies. Tertul. de fuga in
persecutione has causas ponit permissionis diuinæ, aut ex causa
probationis conceditur diabolo vis tentationis prouocato, vel
prouocanti, aut ex causa reprobationis traditur ei peccator aut ex
causa cohibitionis, vt Apostolus refert sibi datum angelum
Satanæ._]

[Footnote e: _Beda in collectaneis ex Augustino ad Epistolas
Pauli._]

Second, It is[f] proceeding from his mercy and goodnes, for the trial of
faith, obedience and constancy in such as belong to God: whereof there
is an excellent patterne, and vnparaleld in _Iob 1. 13.14._ _&c._ for by
this triall is made a proofe to examine whether wee doe continue firme