The Scriptures Doe Not Teach That Spirits Are Incorporeall Our Saviour, immediately after the Holy Ghost descended upon him in the form of a Dove, is said by St. Matthew (Chapt. 4. 1.) to have been “led up by the Spirit into the Wildernesse;” and the same is recited (Luke 4. 1.) in these words, “Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, was led in the Spirit into the Wildernesse;” Whereby it is evident, that by Spirit there, is meant the Holy Ghost.  This cannot be interpreted for a Possession:  For Christ, and the Holy Ghost, are but one and the same substance; which is no possession of one substance, or body, by another.  And whereas in the verses following, he is said “to have been taken up by the Devill into the Holy City, and set upon a pinnacle of the Temple,” shall we conclude thence that hee was possessed of the Devill, or carryed thither by violence?  And again, “carryed thence by the Devill into an exceeding high mountain, who shewed him them thence all the Kingdomes of the world:”  herein, wee are not to beleeve he was either possessed, or forced by the Devill; nor that any Mountaine is high enough, (according to the literall sense,) to shew him one whole Hemisphere.  What then can be the meaning of this place, other than that he went of himself into the Wildernesse; and that this carrying of him up and down, from the Wildernesse to the City, and from thence into a Mountain, was a Vision?  Conformable whereunto, is also the phrase of St. Luke, that hee was led into the Wildernesse, not By, but In the Spirit:  whereas concerning His being Taken up into the Mountaine, and unto the Pinnacle of the Temple, hee speaketh as St. Matthew doth.  Which suiteth with the nature of a Vision.

Again, where St. Luke sayes of Judas Iscariot, that “Satan entred into him, and thereupon that he went and communed with the Chief Priests, and Captaines, how he might betray Christ unto them:”  it may be answered, that by the Entring of Satan (that is the Enemy) into him, is meant, the hostile and traiterous intention of selling his Lord and Master.  For as by the Holy Ghost, is frequently in Scripture understood, the Graces and good Inclinations given by the Holy Ghost; so by the Entring of Satan, may bee understood the wicked Cogitations, and Designes of the Adversaries of Christ, and his Disciples.  For as it is hard to say, that the Devill was entred into Judas, before he had any such hostile designe; so it is impertinent to say, he was first Christs Enemy in his heart, and that the Devill entred into him afterwards.  Therefore the Entring of Satan, and his Wicked Purpose, was one and the same thing.