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Mow we muff pray á «ainfi the tentations of the f efh, &c. 4 :3 Both prove us, we may be approved; or if it pleafe him by the tentation to difcover unto us our weak_ neffe, he would turn it to our good, Deut. 8. 16. that both in refped of our former weakneífe we maybe humbled, and for the time to come be made more circumfped. But as touching thofe tentations which are pro-Flow we are vocations unto evil; we pray againft them ,, I. in ceants; generali, That our hearts may not be inclined to ùons. any evil, Pfal. 141.4. and therefore that the Lord would neither give us over to the tempter to be overcome, nor fuffer us to be tempted above our power, neither leave us to our felves and forfake us in the tentation , but that it would pleafe him tofia- blifh us by his freefpirit,Pfal.S .14. and allift us with his grace ( which will be fufficient for us, 2. Cor. I2. 9. that being confirmed and flr.engthened by him , 1. Pet. 5 . i o. we may not fall away in the time of tentation, Luke 8. 13. but may be able to withftand our enemies in the evil day, and having fi- ni flied all things may fiandfafl, Ephef. 6.13. being kept by his power through faith unto falvation, t. Pet. 1. 5. And II. more fpecially, T. againfl the tentations of How we the fleíh we are to pray,That howfoever finne dwel a 3 Apra in us, yet it may not reigne in our mortall body, that we rations of it in the lulls thereof, or give our members as the flesh. weapons of unrighteoufnelle unto finne, R.om.6.12,13. And efpecìally, That he would not puni(h our finne with finne,giving us over to our own lu(ts, Pfal.8 r. 13.Rom.1.24.or to thehardneß of our own hearts, Ephef.4.18. or to a reprobate mind, Rom. I. 28. to . commit thane with greedinelle. But contrariwife,That he-