V. To Diftiw? Gods Providence..and Protection, is

one, of the, worlk;’Phings, into »which:, the Devil by his,
Temptations would, be hurrying:of | use) He« would: fain)
have driven, our Lord unto aSufpicion of Gods cate aj
bout Him»; fad thelDevil, You may Dy for Lack of Bi Cady’,
af you do not Look. better .ajter your felfythan God is like,
to; do for, you. [tis ani-ufual Thing for-Perfons -to. defy;
pair ot Gods Futherly Care Conceraing-them-s -they; Cori
ature, themfelves;, with diftracting .and amazing ~ Fears,’
that they fhall’ come to want before they. dy 3° Yeagi,
they.evn fay with. Fonas, in Chap. toga Foam. eaft » CUB;
of ithe Sight of Ged.3 He} won't ldok: after. me! Burt At 1s;
the Devil that isthe Author of. all .fueh Mclacha

nlwad Suggcls

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§Suggettions in the minds of men It is a Thought that often
Araifesa Fever in the Hearts of Married Perfons, when
f chatiens grow upon them 5 God will never be able in the
may of my Calling, to feed and cloath all my Little Folks. It
Gis a) Thought with which Aged Perfons are often torment:
ed, Tho God has all my Dayes hitherto fupplied me, yet I fhall
| be pinci’d with Straits before I come to my Fourneys end.
Te a-malicious Devil that raifes thefé. Evil Strmifings in
ithe Hearts of men. And fometimes a Diftemper of Body
witords a Lodging for the Devil, from whence he fhoots
Pheicruek Bombs of fuch Fiery Thoughts into the minds
of many other perfons. With fuch Thoughts does
Whe Devil choofe to perfecute us; becaufe thereby we
rome to \Forfert what we Queftion, We Queftion the
Care of'God, and {0.we Forfeit it, until perhaps the
“Devil do. utterly Drown us in Perdition. Our God {aysy
Mlruft in the Lerd, and do good, and verily thon foalt be
ed. But the Devil fays, Don't you ‘Truft in God ; Be
ufraid that you fhall not be fed; and thus he hinders men
rom) the Doing of Good.

‘There is nothing more Frequent in the Tempta~
bp ons of the Devil, then for our Adoption to be doubt
tid, becaufe.of our Affliction. When our Lord: was in
‘His Penury;. then fays the Devil, If thou be the Son of
iPod; he now, makes an If, of it; What? the Son of
Wed,) and yetinot be able. to Command a. Bit of Bread 3
‘hus, when. we are in very. AMiGive Cireumftances,
Ps willbe the, Devils Inference, Thou art not 2 Child

God.' “The Bible, fays in Heb. 12, 7. If you are Cha=

ened, tt. 18a [hrow'd. Sign that you cant be Children,
wince he'can’t Rob. us, of our: Gracey he.would Rob

oup Fy; aad dhetetore; having

n ee 4 x pay cies .
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God he tea Accules Godetito use When! ifracl washi
Weak’ anid falne imelic W ilderttetspthen did) Amulek fecrip-ih
da thienys fulbtow dvs the Devil fer Upon the People: oj
Godzwhkathdk Mofies, their € vohtes, their: Exetcifes haveli
Baeble whee Suvdeswithin thtargiand what'fays the De-ili

oPWenthe ane than was mutrersdlintthe Ear of-the ‘A fits] y

ted Fob UP Hot Mis Vive Wprigh Mes of thy Payer Remember sh\)
pray thee, who ever pertfhed, bevng Tanocent: ? Efithoa-wer't ails
Child of Geds Fe! wolld never follow thee, with puch Teftamon|n
nies of bis Indignation. This is the Legic ofthes Deval: ji)
ghd he thasditertipts that patience, 'and that Chearfulnefs);

wherewith we fhould) Suffer the Lane God.

" '¢ wid ait c } , ae 3 1

o(ym ToDifpute the Divine Ovigital and ‘Authority oil;
Gods Wordyis Hot'the lealt af thote Teneptations Ww ithy whick|p
he D&A? EXoublés us. God trom Heaven, thad newly)
thid uitito ae. Jord,’ This ie vty Beloved Son 3 but now" the)
DWevd Wen dthave hint to Hake & Difpute of it, Uf 'rhowd\\
phe Sep oped. he iDevil dorlbonon® be “fo Inpudent;,
and Brafen-faced, as to bid men ufe<Pharaphs “Language

TWio is the Lord, that I fhonld obey his weice ? But he wil
“wither At BiiefRagsy what he did unto | out Mother Ev
OEE Fe {PAM Dobe dp Hb Libarh fpbhens what gouccall yn
7? Ted Deeilnvetid have webMay unto othe Sere pi

(-\iedy bb dhre ase Pasheey th fer Aywys 1TTbay
hae they Yeier Unce the-t Pod] et ah Jer. AsiuD: IThe,y

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cure, WwW C
‘Ypeaket Pallely; whe Lord tr Cbd biarbonot [ent thee to « [pen
phat thow ie umeowe snd Ke® Would fai have: (corey
And CUARA Tse ings i: OUT ch¥ts, Thaw enew APO Mp
“altogether Yous woes Ser aphike PGs @bpreferited ‘hemi Thy
“Devil wold Wil all hisHealk, fake dnd huge Bovehhiy
“ofall Hie Biblegsa_ che World tithe Re has Zor rhillrons'€);
Perfecuters roadih hin ithe Suppfttion’ SFatet Niet
étilous' Boek.” Sie wag the Deval ‘once hae Eoagte. EI
ePaper t that ery *d out, A Pie ue on this Bible 5 this "tis hii)

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iW yetthe Devil wouldigladly bring fome } Di'crediz- upon “at

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mm) as if at were but fome Efumane Contramance ; -OF nothing,

hsithe Devil more-delirous, than this i-hat wethould not

! l » es 1 id thasshad Wesle

county Chr: fo: precious, ie aves! fo.-\&slorious,:. Hed fo

a. P US% gi aC AC

‘4 Dreadtul; and Simifolddious, as the, Scripture has, declared
Its ;

§ The Sccond.of our Lords, Three,’ Feniptatonsy is
selated:after. thisamanner, in, Mat. 4.) §4.6. Then. the Devil
taketh hit Uupstnto the Holy C iy, and, Jetieth hin upo 4

Ml Panole, ofithe Temple sand faith unto,,hiras, df thoy ibé-the
‘Son of God, caft thy felf downs For if as, writteny He floall give
Nal L's Angels charge:| concerning: theey and(in, thy Hands, they
18 foal bear, thee up, left at any time thou dafe-thy,. Foot against
i aiSrone. Ort i ft

From whence take thele Remarkss

i. Fhe places ofthe gredteft Holend/s will not fecure us
4trom: Annoyance by the Temprarions,of the Devil, to the
WA sreatelt wickednels.., When our Lord-iwas in the Holy Ci
mW y5 the Devil fell upon him there. .Indeed, there is now
no. proper Holine/s of Places in ours Dayes; the Signs
wand Mcans of Gods more: fpecial Prefence are notun-
Mder the Gofpel, ty‘d unto any. cértain places: Never-
tathelefs there’ are’ places, where we ule to: enjoy niuch of
7 ; and where, altho? God vilfir not the Perfons for
ithe fake of the Places, yet he vilitss the Places, forthe
Malake of the Perfons. But, I am to tell you, that. the
MDevil will vitit thofe Pisces and the belt Per/ons there

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No Place, that I know of, has got fuch a Spel! upon it,asht
will always keep the Devil out: "Phe Meeting-Houfeilt
wherein we Affemble for the Worfhip: of God, is: filledifs
with many Holy People, and many Holy Concernsycon=ifi
tinually ; but if our Eyes were fo refined as theServant ht
of the Prophet had his of old, I fuppofé we fhould nowipi
{ee'a Throng of Devils in this very place..The Apoftle}fi
has intimated, that 4m gels come in’ among us 5. there are'ft
Angels it jeems, that hark, how | Preach, and: how’ yous
-Hearjat this Hour. And cur own fad Experience 1s enough \t
to intimate, ‘That the Devils are likewife Rendevouzing i
here! It-is Reported, in Fob 1. 5. When’ the Sons of God, ii
came to prefent themfelves before theiLord, Satan» came
alfo among them. When we are >in © our’ Church-Af itn
{emblies, O how many Devils,\do you imagine, croudjly
im aniong us! "Fhere is a Devi? that “rocques one tovo
Sleep ; there ‘is’ a’ Devi/ that makes another to be® think-ill
ing ‘of, he fcarce knows what himfelf; and there. is. ait
D:v1/, that makes another, to be pleafing himfelf with ite
wanton and wicked Speculations. It is alfo poffible, ito
that we have our Cloféets, of our Studies, glorioully su
perfumed with Devotions every day ; but alas, can weil
fhuc the Devil out of then: ? No, Let us go where ae 4,
will, we fhall ftill find a Devil nigh unto us.° “Onely, ihe
when we come to Heaven, we fhall be out of his’ Reach i
forever 5 O rhou foul Devil's we are going where thou canft (
nc come ! Hewas hifled ouvof Paradifey and fhall never \\y
enter it any more. “Yea, more than’ fo, when the New ile
Firufalem comes down into the High Places of our ' Atry shy
from -whence the Devil fhall then be Banifhed, there fhall |,
be no Devi! within the Walls of that Holy. City. Amens iiy
Even fo, Lord Fefusy Come quicklyl il i

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m. Any other Acknowledgments of the Loyd Jefuts ii
a Chrift

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siChrift, will be permitted by the Temprations of the Devil,
srovided thofe Acknowledgments of Him, which® are
dWive and Full, may be thereby prevented... What was it,
hat the Devil hurried our Lord Jefus Chrift unto the
‘op of the Temple for ? Surely it could not meerly be-to
Wind Precipices ; any part of the Wildernefs would: have
\ftorded Them. No, it was rather to have Spe€arors.
twAnd why fo ? Why,the carnal Jewshad an Expectation a-
niong them; that E/ias was to fly “from Heaven to the
)ifemple 5 and the: Devil feems willing, that our Lord
gUhould be ecry‘d-up for E/zas, among’ the giddy: ntulti-
Jude ; or any thing in the World, tho’ never fo confidera-
tle otherwife, rather than to be Received'as, The Chrif of
tized. The Devi? will alow. his: Followers to’ think ‘very
dhhighly of the Lord Jefus Chrift; © but he is ‘very~ lothe
oto have them think, 4. We read in’Col. 1, rg Ie has
“Pleafed the Fathers that in Him there [would all Fulnefs dwelt.
3ut it is pleafing to the Devil; that we Deny fomething of

p fhe Immentfe Fullne/s, whichis in’ our Lord. The? Devil
would confefs to-our Lord, The art the Holy One of God !
} Putthen he claps in; Thow are ¥efus lof Nazareth 3 which
e§vas to coneeal our Lords being, Fefus' of Bethlehem, and
Dy his being, The True Meffiah. Allthe Herefies, and all
he Perfecutions, that ever plagued: the Church of .God,
save ftill been, to ftrike at fome Glory of our Lord@ Jefus
Phrift. A CHRIST Entirely Acknowledged, will fave
the Souls of them that fo Acknowledge: Him ;° but)’ fays
he Devil, Whatever I doy I mu not give way to\that. As
rey fay, the Devil makes #%tches unable to utter all: the
Lords Prayer, or fome fuch Syftem) of Religion, without
ome Depravations of it; thus the Devil: will confeat that
we may make a very large Conteflion’ of the Lord Jetus
Chrift’; only he will have us to deprave it, at lealb in
some one Important Article. Some ene Honour, fome.one

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Office, and fome one, Ordindnoe ob tia Taare’ jkfus Chit!
mult be, always lef unacknowiledgedAbysthdle taanwyl
do .asthe! Devil would, have! chem: oe ME

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' f ani *y F | ; i ; | : iH
Li High Statconbin. the. Church: of Godslay: men op eit

to violent and: peculiak Penptatéons of thecDevakWbca Ou

Lard was-upon thesP agble; thatis; noottic Bawes: or: Spano
butzthe Bur rlements.oftthe Temples there did the Devil peftt!
er/him, with GagularMoleftations, andiher'therein, teem}
tointend an Entanglement for the Jews;as well asfor-Q9|
Lord;; Believe me; they that. Said ‘High, cannot Stand fap
‘The Devil is a Nimfody: a-mighty Hunters and see ti
hitle Game; will notfervethis Turn’? helissa Leviarhung elt
whom:ive/may fay,asin-Job.! an. 13 Aiw Hebelolily all hig
Things. Men of High! Attainrnénts,axidaden of Hagh! Earn
ployments, in the Chueh of (God), mutt hooks, like Perel
to.bé. more Sifted, and like Paul; to be more Buffeced thatth
other: Men. Fertiint:Suemmos Fulmina: Monces-: .-+* FA
Devil can raife a Stormy when.’ God -peranitt eth. 1¢5: but s.dili
for thofe Men that ftand:nest: Heavens: the Devik-will dttach
-theny with his-moft cruel ftorms.of Thunder: and Lightning’
Tt wasiaid, Ler bim that ftands take heed»; | but wer maylt
fay, \They.that fland imap high, have caufe to take: molt: ‘Heed
DheDevil isa Golidh sand. wheny hesfinds»a Chawipian'
hell béfure moftsfiercelysto' “Combate: (ach! [afi man. th
He is for, King many. Birds with atid Sends atic ‘ils
knows that he-fhall' hinder a world of Good, aud@pyolth
duce a world of 14, ifoneeshe can. bring.:a ian Brathenddiy
Stationed into his 'Toylsss\ Herice *tiss thar the’: Mz 2asten |
of God, are more: dogg’d: by | the: Devil, thaw thes
perfons are. Efpécially» tach: ‘Minifters;asmoye lin tbe!)
higheft. Orb. of Senviceablenefs 5: dndiomolb. of: alli: fuekin
Minifiers as have:fpéntomany. yeatsirim, Laudablii ie
‘deavours. to. be Serviceable 5 Thoté Wwiinitters are «tty
ith Star

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rare cok Seaven Pat which the. Tay/ of the Dragon, will
shive the moft weeping and mioft ftinging {brokes’; the
‘Devil will find thatfor them, ‘that fhall make them: %/k

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fely all their: Dayes, Thefe are the men, that have
dteepled, and vexed the Devi/‘more than other men 5 ‘for
which the Dedi/'has an’ old’ Quarrel with them. O-Neigh-
“ours, Little do you think, what black Dayes. of ’Mourn-
gy and Fafting; and Praying before'the Lord, a Raging
Devil. do’s “fill the lives of fuch Mev of God withal.

! SPV. The devibwill make:a deceitful and -unfaithful -ufe
dbf ithe Seripties to make his Téempracions forceable. “When
ihe Devil Solicited our Lord, unto an evil thing, hequo-
i ed the Niveryir/tPfalm unto'him, ‘tho* indeed he» fallaci-
ifoutly clip‘d it, and maim/d it, of one claufe very materiabin.
At. Onever do’s the Devil makefuch dangerous Paftes at

His, as When lic Goes wreft our! etn Sword out of sour
Welands, and pufh That upon-us. We have to ‘odefend
Mas, that Weapon in Bph.'6. 16..°The Sword of the Spirits
which is their of Ged ; bat ~when the Devil has
mhat very Weapon. to fight ‘us’ with, he makes °teivi-
Bdle work: of fir, “When tke Devil would poyfon «men
jpwithofalle ° Dodtriites, he? quore® Scriptures for them ;
gpa Quvker hinkas, avill have the! Firkt Chapter Of. Fob
vkdwaysie hismouh. When the Devil would: *per-
WA WadeoTiéh/ toivile \Aétions, Vhe’liquote sepia for
i heres! hel encourage menxo’go on in Sin; :by fhow-

tra vehen, where tis Aid; Whe: Lordvis Readly'to Pardon,

aD fay rtiiis, "Whe “One Storpz!oP Devids Fallin the Scrip-
cies Hasmbebanindde by -theaDevil, ‘an! Engine forthe
pdansnationoftimaay: milliets. The Devil” will fright
nen fiemmdoihg ethole things, that are, The <Dbings of

their Pence, bat How. > Hethturnm: ae Scripture qnto~ 2
Seave-crém fox them, “Coc Devil will fright then’ fromall

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24 TV Devil
conftant Prayer to God, by’ quoting - that Scripture}
The Sacrifice of the Wicked, is an Abomination to ch)
Lord 3 the: Devil. will fright them from. the Holy Sup]
per. of God, by quoting that Scripture, He thar Eat,
and Drinks umvorthilsEBats and - Drinks, Damnation AN
‘omfelf. And thus: the.-Devil. will. by: fome Abul};
Scripture, Terrily the Children of God 5 rhe Sctiptur |
is WIM, as), We are;told, For ovr Comforts but iti

uoted by.thé Devil; Por.¢ur; Terror. Jow many Godl} |,
Souls have been caft into tintul Doubes and Fears, by thi |
Devils toolith glofles upon’ that Scripture; He that’ Doubel
7s Damned 5and that, The Fearful fhall have their portion
3m the Burning Lake i Lhe Devil fometimes has play’d tht i
~Preacher, but | fay, Beware a@ filly Souls, when ep a Fool,
‘4s Preackingy. NO lott beer fe as ct

¥. Grievous and: Pulling Hurries to Seif-Murder arth
none of the fmalleft outrages, which the Devil in his Tempta,
tions. commits, upon us...’ Why, did the Devil fay to Oui),
Lordy Cat thy felf dows, bat in hopes that Our Lord would,
have broke his Bones, in the fall? The Devil: is -an O/

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Murtherers andhe loves to Murder men ; bat no Mur dein

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gives hina fo much fatisfaction, as that which. at his Inftiga,
tion, ‘Men perpetrate upon themflves. We fee that fuich|
-as/are Bewstched and Pojfe/ied by the devil, do quickly. layp
» violent: hands upon themfclves, if they benot watched con,
tindally, and we feethat when perfons have begun that Un,

natural. bulinels of killing them/elves, there isa Preternatura,y
Stupendous Prodigious Affiftence,by the devil given theré.,.
unto. . When people are’ going to Harm themfélves,:.we',
» call upon them, like thofe. ta the Jailor, in) Acts. 16; 28)
» Dosbyfelfnoharm! - And -we have this Argument for. it, |

Lt ssethe. Dewil. that is dragging of you'te this mifchier 3 dui |

BHL Jour believes | will yen -ebey _fugh. am one, 4s Ds
on , a +, “ oo cecal s be A
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16 Lhe Devil

was that which the Devil would have brought “our Lord}
unto, even, 4 Tempting of the Lord our God. It the charge!

of our God upon us, in Dew. 6. 16. Fhou flale net Tenipey’

the Lord thy God. Bur that which the Devil Tries, is, to i

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put us:upon Tying in a finfal way, whether'God be tuch:
a Godas indeed He is: . “T's true, asto the Ways of 0-4)
hedience,; our God fays unto us, Prove me,’ i thofe wayes ai
Try WWoetber I won't be as Good as my Word) But then, #8
there are ways of Prefumption, wherein’ the ‘Devil would
have us to Try, whata God it is, 44th whom we have to dot
'The Devil! would have ug to Try the Parpofe of God,a bout!l!

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our felves or others ; but how ? By going to the Deol
himéelf : by Confulting Afivolegers) oP‘ \Fortune-tellers 3’ Ort"
perhaps, by letting the Bible fall opens to’ fee what 48 the
firlt Sentence we lightupons “The ‘Devil would: have'us)”
Try the Mercy of God; But how? By running: into Dane!
gerss:which we havé'no ‘call unto. He would have us'*
Try the.Power of God 9But how > By ‘Looking for Good?
Things, withour the we of Means for the getting or tiem.’
He would haveus Try the Fuftice of God ;*but how? By
venturing upon Sing in ia Corner, with) an bmagination ‘that
Godwtill never bring usout. He would have us Ty the}

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Promife of God ; baphow? By! Limiting the- Lord, unto
fach onfuch a way of Manifefting Himtelf, or elfe béliev-"
at

ing Of nothing at allie He would havé'us Try the Threat’
ning of God 5 burhow? By gomg or Impenitently my!
thofe things, for which the’ 47arh of God comes upon the!
Children of Difobedienee. Vlas would the Devil have “us;
to’affront the Majelty of Heaven evéry day. eiee ol:

VIL: The Ternpeationy ofthe Devil, aim “at puting and
Bloating oftis up, with Prédey as much perhaps as any orie?
iniquity. "he Devil would have had Our Lord! "male 3
Vain-glorions Ditcovery of himfelf unto the world, by Fiyzng'
in the air, fas tio mortal can: Hoe Ithacus veltt-~ the Devil)
would havevus tg foar aloft, and not orily tobe above other

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spitcobered 2 7%
men, but alfo tokzowthat weare fo. Pride isthe Devilsown
din 5,and he affects, efpecially to be, e e ak ng over the Chil-
cen of Pizde, [tis a.caution, ini, Tim. 3. 6. A Pattor
mutt not,be.4 Novice. ; 3 Left being ae up with Pride, He
4/22 intathe Conant tacts of the Devil, [ Suimrmo ac Pio.cum
Mlremore Huic Textum Legamus nos Mini ftr ri Fuvenes || Ac»
: cordingly, the Devil would have us to be inordinatel y taken
and moved with ban Excel liencies our God ha’s beltowed
d, have us rife in.our
E acorn ben n ble le with beauty, with breed-
ing, with Honour,with tL Succels, with Attire, with fpirstual
Pray yiledges, or with } >yaile-wort hy: Pertormances 3... Now
ates the Devil, Think thy jelf better than other Mi x

the Dayil 1 would have. us. arrogate unto ourielves, thofe
actlencies, Which Teally Wwe never were owners of; ; and,
: Be Ys of a Falfe gift. He would have ug moreover to ‘Thiclt

2h,

after Applaufe among others that may fee Our Excclicu-
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czes... and be impatient if we are otaccount ted Jome- body.
Fe would have us furthermore, to afpire after fuch ‘ak
gure, as God ha’s never yet feexhtting fe oy.us

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; & cidoud into
fone High Chair thar becomes ustiot. |

iss would the
Devil Elevate us into..the Airs above our Neighb« OUTS "5

and why {0 ! Tis that we m ay .be punithed with fuch
Falls, as may make us cry Out (With David, O my Bones
are broken with my Falls! The Devil cat't endure to {ee
mea lying. in the Dif ; becaule there i

: PF? I k Se ny then JE.
Ae 1s a Fallen’ Spiriohamielf, and it pleates him to: fee the
Fstis of, men.

§ The Third of Our I Lords Tree "Temptations, js re-
lated | 4a, fuch "T'erms’ as thee. Math, 4. 8, 9. Again the
. Ozvel taketh him Up, tnto an exces ding High Mountain, and
he weth him. all.the Kang: domses of ther tor si and the glory of
rh em: and faith, RRL hang, all thef @ thy phd 43 ve thee; af
lnou. wilt fall down and By fhip me, Taek whence take
hefé Remarks’

rs The Devil in his Temptations will £

tthe Delichre Or.

fight of thine Eves. Thus far the Devil weuld have us toi'?

ff a
Zhe Devil |
this world before us ; but he‘l fet a fair, and a falfe Varnifh Wy
upon thofé Delights. “They were fome unknown Perfpe+1]
éisves, which the Devil had, both for the Refracting of the #
Medium, and for the Magnifying of the Objeé, whereby
he gave our Lord at once a profpect of the whole Romani
Empire ; but what was it ? It was the’ #rld, and the Glo=t{d
#y of it; he fays not a word of the /rld, and the’ Trouble
of it. No fire; not a word of that ; the Devil will not haveil:
his Hook fo barely expos’d unto us. The Devil {ets offi
the Delights of Sin, which he offers unto us, with a ftretch-sit
ed and a raifed Rhetoric; but he will not own, That in thei
mids of cur Laughter, our Heart fhall be forrowful ; and, That i
the end of our Mirth fail be Heavinefs. There is but oneyi
Glafs in the Spectacles, with which the Devil would havei)
us to read, thofe paflages in Ecc/. 1 1. 9. Rejoyee, O youngili
wnan in thy youth, and let thy Heart chear thee in the Dayes||)
of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy Heart, and in thel|b

Read ; and he’l make many a fine Comment upon it ;he’his
tell us, ‘That if we'l follow the Courfés of the World, weit
fhall {wim in all the Delights ofthe World. But he is notin
willing you fhould Read out the next words; But ‘know!|]
thou, that for all thefe things God fhall bring thee into $udg-\1
ment. © he’s loth we fhould be aware of the dreadful T¢| |
{ues, and Reckonings that our Worldly Delights will be
attended with. He fers before us, The Pleafures of Sin jt
but he will not fay, The/e are but for a Seafon. He fets be-
fore us, The [weet Wuters of Stealth; buat he will not fay.) (
There is Death in the Pot. He isa Mountehank, that will j
beftow nothing but Romantic Praifés upon. all that hel
makes us the Offers of. i

Ii There are moft Hellifh Bla/phemies often buzz’d by} |
the Temptations of the Devil, into the minds of the beft),
men alive. What 2 moft Execrable Thing was hete laid)
before our Lord Himielf: Even, ‘To own the. eae f

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HWGod !a thing that cannot be uttered, without unutterable
Horror of Soul. The beft man on earth, may have fuch
Fiery Darts fcom Hell fhot into his mind. One that was
pfacted by the Devil, had the impudence to propound this,
unto fuch a good min as Fob, Cu+fe God. And the Devil
sIpleafes himéelf, by chafing the Hearts of good men, with
his bafe Injections, That there 1s #0 God, Oty Laat God is not
a Righteous God; and a thoufand more fuch things, too De-
villifh to be mentioned A good man is extreamly grievd
‘Jat it, wher he hears a Bla/phemy from the mouth of ano-
ea cher man ; faid the Pfalmitt, in Pfal. 44. 15,16. My.Con-
it fufion is continually before me, for the voice of him that Blaf-
Q§ phemeth. But much mors, when a good man finds a Bla/-
phemy in his own Heart ; O it throws him into molt Fes
vourifh Agonies of Soul. For this caufe, a mifchievous
Devil, will Fiy-blow the Heart of fach a man, with fuck
Blafphemous Thoughts, as make him cry. our, Lord, Farm
@n weary of my life. Yea, the Devil ferves the man juft
asthe Miftrels of Fofeph dealt with him; he importunes
‘the man to Think wickedly from Day to Day ; and it the
‘man refufe, he cries’ out at laft,, Behold, what. wicked
‘Thoughts this man has lodging in him. Sayit thou fo? Sa-
tan! No, they are Brats of thy own ; and at thy Door a-
lone fhall they be laid for ever.
un. There is a fort of Witchcraft ia thofe things, where-
] to the Temptations ofthe Devil would Inveigle us. ‘To
-worfhip the Devil is #teheraft, and under that notion was
Our Lord urged unto fin. We are told in, r.Sam. 15. 23.
Rebellion is as the fin of Witsheraft: When the Devil would
have us to fin, - he would have us to do the
‘things which © the. forlorn » Witches ufé to do.
Perhaps there are few’ perfons, ever allured by the Devil
uato an Explicit Covenant with himfelf. If anv among
Ourfelves be fo, my counfil is, that you hunt the Devil from
you, with fuch words)as the Plalmilt had, Be gone > Depart
from mc, ye evil Doers,

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that the Lord Jefis ‘fro

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any God. Butalas, the moft of men, are by. the. Devil, putt

-upon doing the Things that are -Analagous to_ the. worfky|,

ulages of Witches. “Vhe Devil faies to the finner,..De/pife|
thy Baptifm, and all the Bond of ti, and all the Good. of dt. ilk
he Devil faiesto the finner, Com, caf? off the Authorpeysof \\
God, and refufe the Salvation of C brift, for-ever. ¥ ea the-Leei}
vil who is called, The God of this Worlds would have. sug tO)
take Him for Our God ; and rather hear Him, ‘\ cull. Hem

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IW, Vhe Temptations ofthe Devil do: Tug and. Pull -for-
nothing more, than that the Rulers of the WW orkd may yaeld
Homage unto him. Our Lord has jhad this. by His Father!
Engag‘d unto him, That He fall one day be Governour of thie.|
Nations.."The Devil do’s extreamly dread the Approach of;
that M[luftrioustime when} The Kingdome of God flea ilicomie ||
atid Hisl7il be done, asin Heavety and-on Earth. :-B on this) (
caule it was, that he was defirous, Our Lord fhould..rather Ni
have. Accepted of bim,) that Kingdom, which Ariehrish |)
alterwards accepted of him, for: the Efablithment -of: b
evil-worfhip, in the World. I may; tell you;: Whe)
Devii 4s mighty unwilling, that “there fhould) be ssoniey 4
Godly Magifirate upon. the face, of the: Barth.) «Sachs
the influence of Government, thatithe Devii ‘will ‘every
where tickle mightily,,to have That fiding with © him.)
What Rulers would’ the, Devil have,.. to command’) all ||
mankind, if he might have his will? ‘Even, fuch'asazé iy
called, in Pfal. 94. 20, The Thrones of Tniguityy whieh \2
frames mifchief by a Law 3 fuck’ ass will promote “P78, Ik
by both Connivance,. and Example; atid ftich’'as mad ot
Opprefs all that fhalk be Holy, and Fut and Good? AM
¢ jealous, what Ue ‘the |)

Jevil may make of: theiniyy with “reference to. “the ‘AE IL
fairs Of Government, sbut,’ Rulers may moft of all‘ think, |
mm. Heaven calls upon them,“"$4-

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‘Look to it, what fide you Take. if
"Thus have' you in the Temptations of our Lord,
{een the ‘prin¢ipal ‘of thofe Devices, which the Devil has
(to Entrap eur Souls. But. what fhall we now do,
Mi that we may be fortify‘d againft thole’ Devices ?O that
MB We might be well furnifhed with the whole Armour of
God | But, methinks, there were’ fome things attending
Athe Temptations of our Lord, which would efpecially
Recommend thofe few Hints unto ‘us for our Guard.

Firft, If you arenot fond of Temptation, be not fond of
‘Needlefs, or Too much Retirement. Where was it, that the
Devil fell upon our Lord? it was whenhe was Alone in
the Wildernefs.. We fhould all have our Times to be 4-
ene every Day 5 and if the Devil go to feare us out of our
Chambers, with fuch a Bugbear, as That hee'll appear to us,
if yet flay in fpite ofhis teeth, ftay to finilh your Devotions ;
iP he Lyes, he dare not fhow hishead. But on the other-fide
by being too folitary, we may lay ourfélves too much o-
pen to the Devil ; You ‘know who faics, W% to him that is
Aloiie.

Secondly, Let an Oracle of God be your defence againft
a Temptation of Hell. How did our Lord Silence the Devil ?
Te was with an, It is Written! And all his Three Citations
were from that one Beok of Deuteronomy. What a full
armoury then have we, in all the facred Pages that ly be-
fore us? Whatever the Words of the Devi are, drown
them with the words of the Gvreat God. Say, Tt is
Written. The Belfoazzar of Hell will Tremble and
ate raw, if you fhow .thefe Hand-writings of the
word.

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alt the Temprations of the Devil, Fly to that Lord |

Cry ‘to that Lord, that He would give you a fhare|
in his Happy Victory.

overcame the Devil :

Get hence, away prefently the Tygre flew. Does the
Devil Moleft Us 2 Then Let us Repair to. our Lord, |
- who fays, I know bow

the Plalmift, in Pfal.

audibly fpcke of divers Harms they weuld inflict!
| they made this anfwer, Ah! She|
Runs to t2e Reck! She Runs to the Rock! and that hins |
dred all. ©. this Raxning te the Reck, ‘tis the beft|
’ Prefervation in the World; the Vultures. of Hell can-
not prey upon the Deves in the Clefts of that Rock. |
May our God now. Lead us thereunto.

upon Fer; but fill

It was for Us that our Lord|

and when he did but fay, Satan,

to Suecour the Tempted. Said |

61.2. Lead me to the Rock, that|
is higher than I A Woman in this Land being un: |
der the Pofleffion of Devils, the Devils within her,

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