An abridgement of the Institution of Christian religion written

46 Because we have a continual combat,¹ we desire to be furnished with weapons, and to be aided, that we may be able to get the victory.² And now there be many forms of temptations. For even the evil desires of the mind which provoke us §1to transgress the Law, which either concupiscence putteth into our minds, or the devil doth raise, are temptations: and those things which of their own nature are not evil, are notwithstanding through the subtlety of Satan made temptations,§2 to draw us from God. And they are either on the §1right hand, as richesse, power, honour, &c. or on §2the left, as poverty, contempt, afflictions, &c. through the sweetness whereof we are either drunken, or else we are offended with their bitterness, and so cast from us our hope. And we say that God leadeth into temptation when he giveth over the reprobate whom he hath deprived of his Spirit,³ to become the bondslaves of Satan: which is a sure testimony and token of his vengeance.