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If thou still objectest, But I have yet¹ an evil heart, and therefore if I be not rid of that at that day (should I live till then) why though there should be no Devil to afflict me, I shall feel and meet with sorrow and trouble enough.

1. 1Object.

I answer thee: First, I dare not say¹ that at this day thou shalt be in every sense without thy evil heart, in the midst of all this glory, tempted Soul: Yet I say thus much to thee;

I answer thee: First, I dare not say¹ that at this day thou shalt be in every sence without thy evil heart, in the midst of all this glory, tempted Soul: Yet I say thus much to thee;

1. 1Answ.

First, Where there is no Devil to¹ tempt, though the Saints will yet be imperfect, and come short of a glorified state; yet they by his absence will be delivered from many dreadful vexing and burning hellish Darts, that will otherwise ⟨p. 134⟩confound and afflict the Soul like Arrows, whose heads are poisoned: Christians have a great deal of ease, when God doth (even at this day) with-hold the Devil for a season, (though yet they have their own lusts) over they have when the Devil and their own Lusts are suffered to meet and work together: yea, the Lord Jesus himself, who had no sin, yet in the Temptation was fearfully handled and afflicted with the Devil; though all the while, I say, he kept him at staves end, and did not suffer him in the least to annoy his Person; and therefore 'tis said that when he was in the Wilderness