Serm. LXI. but upon themfelves. 437 Scripture, and the gloffes of Men upon them, without regard to this Rule, may run into the greaten Delufions, may wander Eternally, and lofe himfelf in one Minakeafter another, and thall never find his way out of this endlefs Labyrinth, but by this Cine. If St. games had not been an Apoftle, the Argument which he ufeth would have convinced any reafonable Man, that God tempts no Man to Sin, becaufe he cannot be tempted with Evil himfelf, and therefore it is unreafonable to imagine he fbonld tempt any Man. For he argues from fuch a Principle, as all Mankind will, at firft hearing, affent to. And thus I have done with the firfi Thing afferted by the Apofte here in the Text; That God tempts no Matt to Sin. Let no Man fey, when he is tempted, I am temptedof God; for God cannot be temptedof evil, neither tempted) he any Man. Before I proceed to the fecond Affertion, That every Man is his own greatefi Temp- ter, I thould draw force ufeful Inferences from what bath been already delivered : but I referve both the one and the other to the next Opportunity. SE R-
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