VERS.J3· An Expo/ition, with Notes fpoken of outward tryals, he taketh occafion to fpeak of thefe in– War a tem:ptatiom, that thereby he might remove a blafJhe'mom wror concerning thecaufe·.of them; 'Tis clear that tho[e outward trynls are fromGod, but thefe in:vard try.z-!s, or tempt.ttions to fin, ar:e altoge~ther inconf1fienc with 4 che purity and holinefs of his Nature~ as the Apo~le prove-en in this, and the following V::rfes. Le·t 'I!Jo mfin, \);hen h~ is tempted, p.11hi~ ?l'ete;t~G~®-,] That is, tempted to fin, for in this fence is the word ufed m Scripture, as .Jo;r.vp.Jl;,m, Gr .trfal, is the proper word for the other temptation, fo 7rHd,( esv is the proper word for temptations to fin ; thus the Devil 1s called, a ?Tc-le}.~C:Jv, the tempter, Matt 4· 3· and in the Lords Prayer w·e pray, That we may not be led e:~ ?THY.~~v, in– to temptation, chiefly intending tbat we may not be cafi upon fe– licitations to ~vil; fo here, when he is .t<mpted, that is, fo {elicited to fin, that he ie.ovcrcome by it. . Say J Thacis, ei.[her in won;l orthought,. for a thought is ver· ~ummentis, thefayivg ofthe he{//l't, and fomethat dare not !if} out fuch a bla{phemy, .certtarinly dare imagine it; for the Apoftle implies, that t~e creature is apt to fo.J, to have{ome excufe, or other, I am tcmpt.edof(jod : ] That 1s, it was fle{olicited, or inforced me £o evil; or if .he would not have me .fin; why would not he hinder me? For God .Cannot be t (mpted with Evil,] Here is the reafon drawn from the unchang.eabi.e hoiinefs of God, he cannot any way be feduced and tcmp.t..ed into evil: Some read it actively, he is not the remp.t:er of Evil; but this v ould confound it with the lafr cl.,Nx.ttJ.& d.- daufe: Some,as Salme:ror. out of~ Clemens Romanm, render the vn~ d.7rflcY-~-o> fi=nce, thU$, God is ,not t me tempter of e·vil perfims, but onely of • ?W-e}. 'TIJ ,'J-€!i. the goodby ttJJliEfiow ; but d1at is a nK:ety, which will not hold Clem.· Rom. true in all cafe~ ancl dorh not.agreewith t'he Original phraf~ ; for /i6. 2 • conft. it is not .JY y.a,x!iv.,.as rtferring it to evil perfons ,but Gmply without cap. s. an article,"atX:!iv, as referring it to evil things; The fum is, God can• not, by any external applir;ations, or ill motions from within, be drawn afide to that wbicb is uojuft. N either ·tcmpteth he 'a;;y man.] Thit is, cloth not love to fe– duce others, willing that men lhouldbe conformed to the Holinefs of his own Naturt'. He tempteth not, either by inward folicita- • .. .. .. . t10A
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