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6. His Repulse of the Temptation was strong and peremptory: How can I do this great Wickedness? He felt no Sympathy, no 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 ¹sin: 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.

6. His Repulse of the Temptation was strong and peremptory: How can I do this great Wickedness? He felt no Sympathy, no sensual Tenderness, but exprest 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 ¹sin: 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.

1. 11 Joh. 3. 9.

7. The Reasons are specified of his rejecting her polluting Motion. Behold, my Master knows not what is with ⟨p. 6⟩me in the House, and he hath committed all that he hath to my Hands: there is none greater in his House than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his Wife: How then can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against God? 'Twas a complicated Crime of Injustice and Uncleanness; a most injurious Violation of the strongest Ties of Duty and Gratitude to his Master, and of the sacred Marriage-Covenant to her Husband, and the foulest Blot to their Persons: Therefore how can I commit a Sin so contrary to natural Conscience, and supernatural Grace, and provoke God? Thus I have briefly considered the Narrative of Joseph's Temptation; and that Divine Grace preserved him untouched from that contagious Fire, may be resembled to the miraculous preserving the three Hebrew Martyrs unsinged, in the midst of the flaming Furnace. The Patience of