Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

It wasⁱ no sin for David by chance to espy a naked woman, his neighbours wife, washing her self; neither was it a thing in his power (how should he forecast it?) to avoid: but the object being thus casually offered unto him, David, that ought (as he prayed sometime) to have^k turned his eyes away from it,^l wilfully fixed them so long there, where they had occasionally seized, that his heart came to be tainted with filthy concupiscence, and his affections all inflamed with lustful desires; and so grew he restless within himself, till he had brought that about, that^m deprived him of true rest indeed. On the other side Joseph after motion had once in that kind been made to him by his Mistress, wasⁿ both careful to shun all occasions of that sinful act whereunto he was tempted; (he would not endure to be so much as in company alone with her:) and again^o as constant in withstanding the temptation when it was offered, and^p the occasion could not be shunned: for though she pressed him to it day after day, he would not hearken unto her: yea he chose rather to hazard loss of liberty and life than to yield unto her impious and adulterous desire. In a word, the one watched, and so did not the other; & therefore the one was not vanquished so, as was the other. And by watching with the one may others escape, and might that other have escaped that, which for want of this watch he was vanquished in.

It wasⁱ no sinne for David by chance to espie a naked woman, his neighbours wife, washing her selfe; neither was it a thing in his power (how should he forecast it?) to avoyd: but the object being thus casually offered unto him, David, that ought (as he prayed sometime) to have