Sermons preached upon several occasions . by his being oppreflfed in his juit Rights andEftate, as the greateft Part of Europe now isjlet him fatisfy and compofe his Mind withthis Confederation, that no Opprefllon cango a Step further, or laft a Minute longerthan its CommilTionj and that God, whogave it its Commifiion, never did nor willlufTer a good Man to be opprefTcd beyondwhat he is able to endure. Which, and the like Confiderations, pref-fed home upon the Heart, will wonderfullyblunt the Edge, and break the Force of anyTemptation. And when a Man fhall thusacquit himfelf, and do his Part,
Sermons preached upon several occasions . by his being oppreflfed in his juit Rights andEftate, as the greateft Part of Europe now isjlet him fatisfy and compofe his Mind withthis Confederation, that no Opprefllon cango a Step further, or laft a Minute longerthan its CommilTionj and that God, whogave it its Commifiion, never did nor willlufTer a good Man to be opprefTcd beyondwhat he is able to endure. Which, and the like Confiderations, pref-fed home upon the Heart, will wonderfullyblunt the Edge, and break the Force of anyTemptation. And when a Man fhall thusacquit himfelf, and do his Part, by fencingin this manner againft the AfTaults and Buf-fets of the Tempter, then, and then only,may he be properly faid to dependupon God?and while Men do fo, be the Temptationnever (o great and prefling; fuch asfaithfully depend concerning Temptation. 295 depend upon him, fhall be certainly deliveredby him. To whom therefore be rendred and afcrib-ed, as is moft due, all Praife, Might,Majefty, and Dominion, both now andfor evermore. u4 The i$6 The Stxth Difcourfe The SIXTH Part or Difcourfe CONCERNING TEMPTATION. i COR. x. 13. But God is faithful., who will not fufferyou to be tempted above that you are able 5but wttt with the Temptation alfo make away to efcape-, that ye may be able to bearit. Have difcourfed feveral times from fe-veral Texts of Scripture upon this greatSubject of Temptation. And that Branch of it which Haft treatedof from this Scripture, was about the ieveralWays whereby God delivers Men from it. Concerning which, we are to obferve ingeneral, that the faid Deliverances aje oftwo forts, ij#, Thofe concerning Temptation. 19 j ift, Thofe whereby God delivers of Temptation immediately by himfelf,and his own Atl, without the Concurrenceor Interpofal of any Act of the temptedPerfon. And, idly, Thofe wherein God makes ufe ofthe Endeavours of the tempted Perfon him-felf, in Subordination to the Workings ofhis own Grace. And thefe are two, Watch-fulnefs
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