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§. The Fourth thing is, The intimate Reason or occasion, whereupon the Apostle doth utter himself in such a supposition [If any of you lack.]

This will appear by considering these three things.

First, In respect that the had ¹exhorted to so hard and difficult a Practice: to Count it all Joy, &c. Which requireth such high principles, to be drunk in, about the good and benefit of Tentations, in the issue and end of them; which principles must also have ⟨p. 149⟩been thoroughly concocted in their hearts, first, who shall attain to this.

First, In respect that the had ¹exhorted to so hard and difficult a Practice: to Count it all Joy, &c. Which requireth such high principles, to be drunk in, about the good and benefit of Tentations, in the issue and end of them; which principles must also have ⟨p. 149⟩been thorowly concocted in their hearts, first, who shall attain to this.

1. 1Siquis vestrum non potest intelligere Ʋ •ilitatem Tentationum, postulet a Deo toibui sibi tentum. Beda in Locum.