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

About which is to be considered, 1. What kind of Resistance this must be. 2. Arguments to persuade and enforce it. ⟨p. 203⟩3. What Graces enable us in this Resistance.

About which is to be considered, 1. What kind of Resistance this must be. 2. Arguments to perswade and enforce it. ⟨p. 203⟩3. What Graces enable us in this Resistance.

1. For the kind of Resistance.

1. It must not be faint and cold. Some kind of Resistance may be made by general and common Graces; the light of nature will rise up in defiance of many sins, especially at first before men have sinned away natural light, or else the Resistance at least is in some cold way. But it must be earnest and vehement as against the enemy of God, and our Souls. Pauls Resistance in his conflicts was with serious dislikes, and deep groans, Rom. 7. 19. The good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do, and verse 24. Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death! In apparent cases a detestation, and vehement indignation is enough, get thee behind me Satan! In other cases there need strong Arguments and Considerations, that the temptation may not stick, when the tempter is gone; as the smutch remaineth of a candle stuck against a stone wall. When Eve speaketh faintly and coldly, the devil reneweth the assault with the more violence,