Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of…

When it is said,¹ the wicked one toucheth him not, it is not to be taken absolutely, as if the devil did not tempt a man at all, therefore there must be a restriction of the clause, he touches him not, that is, with a deadly touch; and so Cajetan, This phrase excludes not the kinds of temptations, but that we are not burt or eternally destroyed by them But I conceive rather that these words have a peculiar reference to the 16 verse, where is mention made of a sin unto death; the devil shall not prevail, or touch a man so, as to commit that sin which is unto death. Though he may tempt, and will be continually assaulting a man, yet he shall never prevail against him, so as to draw him to the committing of that sin.

When it is said,¹ the wicked one toucheth him not, it is not to be taken absolutely, as if the divel did not tempt a man at all, therefore there must be a restriction of the clause, he touches him not, that is, with a deadly touch; and so Cajetan, This phrase exeludes not the kinds of temptations, but that we are not burt or eternally dostroyed by them But I conceive rather that these words have a peculiar reference to the 16 verse, where is mention made of a sin unto death; the divel shall not prevaile, or touch a man so, as to commit that sin which is unto death. Though he may tempt, and wil be continually assaulting a man, yet he shall never prevaile against him, so as to draw him to the committing of that sinne.

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1. From hence we may learn the indulgence of God to weak Christians;¹ whilst their graces are weak their temptations shall not be strong. God will not put weak Christians upon such strong trials, as those […] have obtained greater measures of grace Not every man in Davids Army was put […] break through the Army of the Philistin to fetch of the waters of the Well of Bethlehem,