Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. With respect to spiritual strength, the best are subject to great infirmities, which oft betray us to sin, if our vexations be great and long, Psal. 125. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity. The oppressions of wicked men shall not be so lasting and durable, as that the temptations should be of too great force; this might shake the constancy of the best. He knoweth nothing in Divinity, that knoweth not that God worketh ⟨p. 195⟩congruously, and attempereth his Providence to our strength, and so will not only give an increase of internal Grace, but lessen and abate the outward temptation; that his external Government conduceth to the preservation of the Saints, as well as his internal, by supporting their spirits with more liberal aides of Grace. Therefore God will cause the temptation to cease, when it is overpressing. But all must be left to his Wisdom and holy methods.

2. With respect to spiritual strength, the best are subject to great infirmities, which oft betray us to sin, if our vexations be great and long, Psal. 125. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity. The oppressions of wicked men shall not be so lasting and durable, as that the temptations should be of too great force; this might shake the constancy of the best. He knoweth nothing in Divinity, that knoweth not that God worketh ⟨p. 195⟩congruously, and attempereth his Providence to our strength, and so will not only give an increase of internal Grace, but lessen and abate the outward temptation; that his external Government conduceth to the preservation of the Saints, as well as his internal, by supporting their spirits with more liberal aides of Grace. Therefore God will cause the temptation to cease, when it is overprossing. But all must be left to his Wisdom and holy methods.