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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 11: Quest. How is Sin the most formidable Evil? SERMON XI.
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4. The Continuance of the temptation: she spake to him day by day. Her Complexion was lust and impudence, and his repeated denials were ineffectual to quench her incensed desires, the black fire that darkened her mind. She caught him by the garment, saying, Lye with me: she was ready to prostitute her self, and ravish him.
4. The Continuance of the temptation: she spake to him day by day. Her Complexion was lust and impudence, and his repeated denials were ineffectual to quench her incensed desires, the black fire that darkned her mind. She caught him by the garment, saying, Lye with me: she was ready to prostitute her self, and ravish him.
5. The Person tempted, Joseph, in the flower of his age, the season of sensuality, when innumerable by the force and swing of their vicious appetites are impelled to break the holy Law of God.
5. The Person tempted, Joseph, in the flower of his age, the season of sensuality, when innumerable by the force and swing of t•eir vicious appetites are impell'd to break the holy Law of God.
6. His Repulse of the temptation was strong and peremptory: How can I do this great wickedness? He felt no sympathy, n• sensual tenderness, but expressed an impossibility of consenting to her guilty desire. We have in Joseph exemplified that property of the Regenerate, He that is born of God cannot sin: by a sacred potent instinct in his breast, he is preserved not only from the consummate acts, but recoils from the first offers to it.