The oil of gladnessThe oyle of gladnesse

Yea but I have yielded to some of these vile thoughts, I have yielded to them, and how then shall I do? I answer, the multitude and violence of them did sometimes so tire thee, and put thee out of breath and strength as it were, that thou couldest not give a loud and earnest, but alone a faint and ⟨p. 192⟩whispering, nay, & hereupon Satan hath made thee believe that thou didst yield, but know that it is one thing to yield to a temptation, an other thing to be overwearied and tired with it, that a man is not able to make such sensible resistance as he did once. If a strong and sturdy fellow, full of lewd desires, meeting with an honest but weak woman, should so long wrestle with her, till she were quite out of breath and could scarce speak or stir any longer, and in that her weariness ⟨p. 193⟩should use some unfit gesture to her, were she the less chaste wife for that, in the censure even of the most jealous husband? So then, that that thou callest yielding, was not yielding, but an inability through faintness, to make resistance. § 5. But say thou had styeelded to some evil, even most loath some for a little time, being overtired with resisting: Hast thou not now recalled & recanted thine yielding, dost not thou now abhor thy self for yielding, crave pardon of it, and ⟨p. 194⟩resolve never to do it, nor yield to it hereafter any more? Sure if some varlet should by much importunity, entice thy servant, to let him into thine house that he might rob thee, or do thee hurt, and after many repulses at last, should be so overlaid by importunity, that he should consent, & promise to do it; but so soon as ever the fellow was gone, should abhor it, and refuse to put it in practise, and with tears in his eyes, come tell thee what had passed, craving pardon, wouldst thou not