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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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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.
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 poyson, his exercise, or his destruction.
Temptation in its special nature: as it denotes any evil, is considered, either actively, as it leads to evil, or passively as it hath an evil and suffering in it, so Temptation is taken for affliction, Jam. 1. 2. For in that sense, we are to count it all joy when we fall into temptation, in the other, that we enter not into it.
Temptation in its speciall nature: as it denotes any evill, is considered, either actively, as it leads to evill, or passively as it hath an evill and suffering in it, so Temptation is taken for affliction, Jam. 1. 2. For in that sense, we are to count it all joy when we fall into temptation, in the other, that we enter not into it.