I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Object. 1 But I have been tempted long, and long, and long assaulted; yet I have no deliverance.

Answ. How long? as long as Christ himself? He was in all points tempted as we are, sin excepted, Heb. 4. Indeed Satan found nothing in him, no tinder to receive the sparks of his Temptations; but do but abate the sin of his Temptations, and then, in all points he was tempted as we are, even as much, and as long; for if you look into Luke, cap. 4. ver. 2. you shall find that he was at one time tempted forty days; and then when Satan left him, the Text tells us, He left him for a season, for he was daily tempting of him; and though you have been long assaulted, hath not Satan left you for a season? have you not had some intermissions, some revives, some breathing times? Job complained, that he was not suffered to swallow his spittle, he had no breathing time, as he ⟨p. 138⟩thought: But though your Temptations have been long, and very long, yet you have had revives, Satan hath lest you for a season: And if that be true, That God hath such an over-ruling hand of Grace upon your Temptations; that your very Temptations shall turn to your Good; that thereby you are more enlightened, humbled, and your Grace increased; then the longer you are in this School, the better Scholar you shall be; the more enlightened, and the more humbled, and the more gracious; why should you then be discouraged, though your Temptations be very long?

Answ. How long? as long as Christ himself? He was in all points tempted as we are, sin excepted, Heb. 4. Indeed Satan found nothing in him, no tinder to receive the sparks of his Temptations; but do but abate the sin of his Temptations, and then, in all points he was tempted as we are, even as much, and as long; for if you look into