236 Satans power to Tempt; andChrifl's love to, Though theSiege be firaight, and violent, and fierce, if-a City be block't up, be beleaguer'd ; if it have but hopes: that fuccourand relief will come, it will hold it out : and it it know for certain that fuccour will come, it will hold out unto great extreamity. There's never a temptation but you are beleagner'd by it : and when your temptation is about you, fay, 0my foul, be quiet, yeeld not; the lordChriit is a fuccotiringChrift, and fuccour will come, and therefore hold it out. Shall the Lord jeltis-Chrift, (hall he Inccour me againft my temptations with his bo- font ? and fhall I take my fins, and temptations into mine own bofom ? Shall he come to fuccour me againft my fins? and lhall I fuccour my fins that he comes againft? M/ hat a mighty argument is here to keep us from all our fins, and from yeelding to our temptations ? Jefus Chrift is a fac coming Christ to tempted fouls. In the fitt place ' If there be a truth in this, Chrift is a fuccourirgCbrifi : Let us all labour to anfwer Chrift. Be- loved ! 'tis the duty, and the property the people of God, to obferve what God is doingupon their hearts, and to help on that work. If Jefus Chrift be fuccouringofany of your fouls, againft your temptations ; Oh ! help it on help on the work ; 'tis your duty for tohelp it on, and to answer him. But you will fay, Chrififuccours Before temptation ; andhe fuccours Vnder temptation; and he fuccours After temptation : bowPall Ianfwer this ? howPallIhelp his workon? Give me'leave to givean anfwer unto this Quefflon, and fo I will windeup all. Does the LordJefus Chrififuccour Be- fore temptation ? Obferve his fuccours, and lay themup in your hearts againft a rainy day : Gird your fword upon your thigh, it may not be to leekwhen the enemy comes : have it in readineffe. You don't lay the plaifter on upon the wrifi for the Ague, when theAgue is on, but before it comes. Obferve what thole tokens of love are that Jefus Chrift does throw into your bofom before a temptation comes, and lay them up carfully there. And
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