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Thirdly,¹ there is a great deal of difference in the frame of a mans heart, to his own feeling when his lusts lye still, from that which there is when they come to be stirring: sometimes mens corruptions are restrained, and are very quiet, and then they have good resolutions, at other times their corruptions are stirring and active, and then they are quite off from that they were, the mind is blinded, the heart is carried on violently in ways contrary to former resolutions.

Thirdly,¹ there is a great deale of difference in the frame of a mans heart, to his owne feeling when his lusts lye still, from that which there is when they come to be stirring: sometimes mens corruptions are restrained, and are very quiet, and then they have good resolutions, at other times their corruptions are stirring and active, and then they are quite off from that they were, the mind is blinded, the heart is carried on violently in wayes contrary to former resolutions.

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Fourthly,¹ men know not the strength of temptations before they meet with them, they think it is an easy matter to encounter with them, but when they come, they find them far stronger then they imagined, and they not being prepared for such strength, are overcome by them.

Fourthly,¹ men know not the strength of temptations before they meet with them, they thinke it is an easie matter to encounter with them, but when they come, they finde them farre stronger then they imagined, and they not being prepared for such strength, are overcome by them.