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Of Temptation
Of temptation the nature and power of it. The danger of entering into it. And the means of preventing the danger. With a resolution of sundry cases thereunto belonging, / by John Owen, D.D.Of temptation the nature and povver of it. The danger of entring into it. And the meanes of preventing the danger. With a resolution of sundry cases thereunto belonging, / by John Owen, D.D.
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
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3. The way of preventing it, watch and pray.
It is not in my thoughts to handle the common place of Temptations, but only the danger of them in General, with the means of preventing that danger. Yet that we may know what we affirm, and whereof we speak, some concernments of the General nature of Temptation, may be premised.
It is not in my thoughts to handle the common place of Temptations, but only the danger of them in Generall, with the meanes of preventing that danger. Yet that we may know what we affirme, and whereof we speak, some concernements of the Generall nature of Temptation, may be premised.
For the General nature of tempting and Temptation, it lies among things indifferent; to try, to experiment, to prove, to pierce a vessel, that the liquor that is in it may be known, is as much as is signified by it.
For the Generall nature of tempting and Temptation, it lyes among things indifferent; to try, to experiment, to prove, to peirce a vessell, that the liquor that is in it may be knowne, is as much as is signified by it.
Hence God is said sometimes to tempt; and we are commanded as our duty to tempt or try or search our selves, to know what is in us; and to pray that God would do so also. So Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat, or the throat of a man; it may be his food, or his poison, his exercise, or his destruction.