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A77355	The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mysterie of the saints comfort and holinesse, opened and applyed from Christs priestly office. II. Satans power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulnesse required in every condition.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Adderley, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4445; Thomason E471_1; ESTC R6919	182,218	262

me to beleeve therefore the promise belongs unto me Page 273 2 If the Lord gives out a threatning that it may not be fulfilled then he gives out a promise that it may be fulfilled ibid 3 If I am more godly then I was when Satan told me that the promise did belong to me then is the temptation causeless ibid 4 God hath commanded me to beleeve Page 274 2 How Satan weakens our faith of Assurance 1 By telling us we have no faith ibid 2 By telling us we have no obedience Page 275 How to ward off this blow Page 279 That we have no faith How to ward off this blow 1 The Lord doth give out particular promises for men to measure their condition by Page 276 2 God doth not alwaies give out a particular promise ibid 3 Particular promises have a particular faith Page 278 3 How Satan weakens our faith of Acknowledgement By keeping us from owning Christ Page 278 How to bear off this blow 1 Possess your souls with the priviledge of suffering for Christ Page 279 2 Be sure you look on both sides of your sufferings Page 279 Quest What general Rules may be given to stay our faith that it fail not in temptation Answ 1 Study the Scripture much Page 280 2 Do not measure your selves by the Enlargement or Deadness of your owne hearts ibid 3 Look much unto the infirmities of Jesus Christ Page 281 4 Do not conclude it is no temptation ibid 5 Remember thy own soul of the waies of God with thee ibid 6 Apply the Attributes of Christ sutable to the temptation Page 282 7 Take the Shield of faith ibid SERMON V. Luke 22.21 22. Doct. Gods love and mercy is never more at work for his people than when they are most tempted by Satan Page 286 Cleared First Wherein the care of Christ is expressed to his people in temptation 1 In ordering their temptations ibid 2 He weakens them Page 287 3 He causeth them to be laid downe so as that they may be discerned ibid 4 He orders the time Page 288 5 He sanctifies them ibid How is Christs love drawn out to his people under temptation 1 In teaching them in and by their temptations Page 289 2 He upholds them with new supplies Page 290 3 He gives them a breathing time under temptations Page 291 4 He praies for them then especially ibid 2 His care is most expressed when they are most tempted 3 What there is in Christ that inclines him to this Page 293 1 The quintescence of all love he hath to them Page 294 2 The great interest he hath in them ibid Application Abundance of comfort to all Christs Disciples Page 295 Object I fear I am none of Christs Disciple Answ 1 All Christs Disciples deny themselves Page 296 2 They take up their Cross ibid 3 They follow Christ ibid 2 Christ doth not only pray for his present Disciples but for all such as beleeve through their word Page 297 Object My heart fails me in time of temptation Answ 1 There is difference between failing of ones faith and failing of ones heart Page 298 2 Between failing in faith in our own opinion and in Christs opinion ibid 3 Between failings of faith and failings that acompany faith ibid 4 Consider whether your faith failed like Peters Page 299 Other objections answered Page 300 1 Thessalonians 5.18 Doct. It is the will of God that we should be thankful to him for every thing Page 306 Reas 1. There is excellencies enough in God ibid 2 No condition is so sad but there is some good mingled with it ibid 3 Christians must be like Jesus Christ Page 307 Object Suppose a mans spiritual condition be overclouded Answ 1 Though God do not shine upon a Christian yet it may be light to him Page 311 2 Though Christ withdraw his comforting presence yet he doth not his supporting presence ibid 3 Though Christ withdraw yt he draws by his Spirit Page 312 4 What a man would not loose for all the world is worthy of praise ibid Object Suppose God do not only withdraw but Satan draws neer Answ Be thankful Because 1 Christ hath overcome him Page 312 2 He can do no more than God gives him leave to do Page 313 3 Nothing befals you but what befalls the best of the Saints ibid 4 Christ succours you in your temptations ibid What particular things we should be thankful for 1 We are redeemed of the Lord. Page 317 2 That we have so many dayes of Thanksgiving ibid Encouragments to thankefulness 1 If you can be thankefull when you are low you engage God to raise you up Page 320 2 Hereby your afflictions will bee made blessings ibid 3 The more thankefull you are the more your soules will be filled with peace Page 321 4 Thereby ye shall shame the Devil How this must be done 1 Observe your owne tempers and put your selves upon that duty your own disposition lies next to Page 314 2 Maintain your assurance fresh and green ibid 3 Let your eye be as well upon what you have as upon what you want Page 315 4 Be sure maintain a sence of your own unworthiness ibid FINIS SCRIPTURES Opened And occasionally Cleared in the First VOLVMNE Chap. Vers Pag. Numbers 6 24 25 79 16 41 43 20 12 267 1 Samuel 25 32 33 2 Samuel 24 10 254 Joh 1 11 321 Psalms 40 7.8 11 94 18 290 116. 11.12 271. 117 1.2 316 Canticles 1 6 68 2 3 12 2 14 62 Isaiah 24 15 307 53 9 11 Zachary 1 8 39.307 3 1 28 Malachy 3 2.3.4 56 Matthew 3 17 72 5 10 87 7 24 266 16 24 296 17 5 72 Luke 1 8 9 10 53 22 31 101 John 10 17 33 13 30 310 16 3 110 16 26 61 17 20 42 Acts 1 4 80 Romans 3 25 121 8 33 28 8 35 234 1 Corinthians 10 13 291 2 Corinthinans 12 7 314 13 14 79 Ephesians 1 3 77 3 12 55 5 2 8.12 6 12 245 Hebrews 2 14 15 230 3 1 2 37 8 4 26 9 24 47 10 6 11 10 11 12 34 1 John 2 1 42 5 18 107.265 Revelation 8 3 56 20 1 2 3 288 FINIS SCRIPTURES Opened And occasionally Cleared in the Second VOLVMNE Chap. Vers Pag. Genesis 3 15 70 8 21 29 12 3 72 Exod us 15 ult 160 Deuteronomy 11 10 11 63 18 15 72 Joshua 7 6 162 2 Chronicles 13 17 181 Job 2 4 70 11 13 57 33 14 55 Psalms 16 2.8 25 33 22 164 68 18 41 72 6 47 37 19 187 51 15 102 31 2 3 104 77 2 223 21 3 233 116 11 164 Proverbs 9 begin 13.253 16 1 100 8 29.31 118 Canticles 11 12 99 6 8 7 Isaiah 61 1 2. 24.97 43 13 28 54 8 9. 29 55 1 53 62 12 254 53 11 210 30 21 219 Jeremiah 7 4 6 3 8 177 31 22 187 31 33 79 Ezekiel 36 26 27. 30 20 41 42. 243 Zephaniah 2 3 168 Haggai 2 7 11 Zachariah

of God or no first I wil tempt this man for to break the Law and when he hath broken the Law then will Itempt him to sin against the Gospel then will I strike at his faith his great design still is upon your faith in all his temptations But you will say Quest Why is Satans great design upon our faith in time of temptation He is the great Robber or Theef and if he can Answ he will be sure to spoil a man of that wich is the best Now faith is more precious than gold the trial of your faith is faith is the gift of God and therefore if he can get any thing from a man he will get that which is Gods gift He is the great hinderer of all good of every good work and he will especially labour to hinder that work which is The work of God in a special manner and this is THE Work of God that ye beleeve in his Son Satan knows that faith is the most Beneficial grace unto the Saints The Shield of faith it is called and the Anchor of faith If ye be in a storm at sea faith is your Anchor If ye be in danger at land before Enemies faith is your Shield If that a mans Faith fail his Duties fail his heart failes and all failes He knows well enough that he shall soon make us suffer shipwrack if he can but weaken faith and therefore his great design is upon our faith He knows that faith is most prejudicial to Himself for by faith we overcome the world whom resist stedfast in the faith And by faith we quench the fiery darts of the Devil Now then saies Satan Does faith quench my fiery darts then will I labour to quench faith if I can The Devil does labour alwaies to present himselfe in Christs cloathes unto a soul as an Angel of light and he does labout to rpesent Christ in his own cloathes as an Angel of darkness When as he is a lyar Himself he does labour to make the soul put the lye upon Christ and upon the Spirit The Spirit of God that comes and testifies unto a man or woman Thou art the child of God Satan saies No. When a man therefore does say He is not the child of God the language of his action is He gives the lye unto the Spirit and he saies that Satan speaks true So here he makes Christ and the Spirit of Chrhist a lyar by his unbelief he makes the devil to speak true Now this is Satans great design and therefore in all his temptations still he strikes at the faith of the Saints labours to weaken their faith his great design is upon their faith In the Fourth place Quest 4 How does Satan weaken our faith in time of temptation What are those strokes that Satan gives unto our faith and how shall we be able to bare them off In the general Answ Satan does sometimes labour to weaken our faith By drawing us from the means of faith Take the wood away from the fire it will soon lose it's heat if not put out And if a man be but drawn away from the means of faith the means drawn from him or he from the means by his own default his faith will be soon weakened This Satan labours to do sometimes Sometimes again He raises up Mountains of Difficulties and Discouragements in the way of a Christians obedience and so labours to wound his faith Throw water upon the fire it will soon be out But that I may speak the more fully unto this great Question the answer whereof is of concernment every day amongst you Ye know there the Three acts of faith There is the faith of Reliance whereby a soul does relye upon God in Christ There is the faith of Assurance Whereby a man is perswaded of Gods love towards him and his love to God and that he is the child of God And there is the faith of Acknowledgment whereby a man does own and acknowledge the Cause and Truth of Christ I shall now spend some time and shew ye How Satan strikes at all these faiths and withal labour to shew you How we may bare off his blows that so we may stand in the time of temptation and our faith may not fail First For the faith of Reliance Satan does sometimes strike at the faith of Reliance in the Saints by hiding from them their former Experiences of Gods gracious dealing with them So long as a man hath the sight and view of his Experiences of Gods gracious dealing with him before he does relye on God and he saies I will for ever rest upon God and relye upon God in Christ for thus and thus he hath dealt w th me heretofore Now therfore Satan does labour in the time of temptation to hide the Experiences of the Saints from them and so does strike at their faith and labours to make their faith faile But then How should we bare off this blow Quest Thus Take heed that ye never rest upon the promise barely Answ 1 or only because of your Experience but rather deal with your Experience because of the promise It is a good thing for a man to come up to the Promise by the ladder of Experience but it 's better for a man to go down to the promise by his Experience And if ye look into the 106. Psalm ye shall find that when a man does rest upon the Promise barely by reason of his Experience his faith will soon fail The waters covered their enemies at the 11. verse 't is spoken of the Israelites when they came through the red sea there was not one of them left Verse the 12. Then beleeved they his words Mark now because of their Experience now they beleeved Gods word now they beleeved his promise by reason of their Experience Then beleeved they his words they sang his praise But what became of this Reade the next words They soon forgate his works they waited not for his counsel So that I say take heed that ye don't rest upon the promise barely and only because of your Experience for if your Experience be but out of the way a little then your heart will fail and your faith fail presently Take heed that ye never mourn for any evil Answ 2 no not for sin it self so as to be unthankful for or unmindful of former mercies We are very apt to this and Satan he comes and tempts and saies unto a poor soul Are you speaking of former mercies or blessings to be thanful for them That is a good work for others but as for you you have committed such a sin and it 's your duty now to mourn for your sin committed look you to that to be humbled apply your self to that work and so when he hath gotten a mans heart fix't upon that work in opposition to thankfulness for former mercies received the soul loses the sight of his Experience and so his faith failes in the time of temptation

Wherefore my Exhortation is that you may avoid this blow and this stroke Never mourn no not for son committed but still be thankful for grace received otherwaies your Experience will go out of sight and then your faith failes ye Again Answ 3 Satan does sometimes strike at the faith of Reliance Labours to weaken the faith of the Saints Reliance By sundering or severing their souls from the promise So long as a man hath the sight of the promise and the promise is by him a gracious heart saies I wil for ever trust in God and relye upon God in Christ for thus and thus hath God spoken and thus and thus saith the promise to me But now if the promise be gone then a mans reliance fails Satan therefore in the into of temptation labours to take away the promise scaring the soul or cogging the soul from the promise this he does many waies but sometimes he speaks out thus What! do you meddle with the promise the promise don't belong to you the Threatening belongs to you you have finned so and so and the Threatning belongs to you but the Promise don't belong to you And if he can but get the soul to beleeve this then his faith failes Oh! Quest but How should we bear off this blow in time of temptation for I confesse thus by this temptation does Satan strike at my faith and labours to make my faith to faile In this case let a mans heart speak thus Answ First If the Lord do command me to beleeve then the promise belongs to me for I cannot beleeve unless I apply the promise now in this time at this very time of my temptation the Lord does command me to beleeve else it were no sin not to beleeve 't is a sin for me not to beleeve not therefore the Lord commands me to beleeve but beleeve I cannot unless I apply the promise therefore God would have me to apply the promise therefore the promise does belong to me and I may apply it Again Let the heart speak thus If the Lord does give out a Threatning that it may not be fulfilled and he does give out a Promise that it may be fulfilled If the very applying of the Threatning makes the Threatning not to belong to me and the very applying of the Promise makes the Promise to belong to me then the Threatning does not belong to me for I have applied it and the Promise does belong to me for I have applied it Oh! I remember how my soul hath lien trembling before the Threatning the Lord knows I have often applied the Threatning but now this is true That the very applying of the threatning makes the threatning not to belong to a man and the very applying of the Promise makes the Promise to belong to a man and therfore Satan the Threatning belongs not unto me but the Promise does But then again Thirdly let him say thus If I be more godly now than I was when Satan told me that the Threatning did not belong to me and the Promise did belong to me then there is no reason for this temptation When I went on in a way of sin then Satan told me the Threatning did not belong to me and then he told me the Promise did belong to me Oh! but now I am more godly than I was then I have more of Christ than I had then I am sure therfore Satan Didst thou tel me that the Promise did belong to me then ' therefore it belongs much more to me now Thon toldst me heretofore when I went on in a way of sin the Threatning did not belong to me now then the Threatning does less belong to me for now I am more godly than I was then But above all things remember that of the Commamnd to beleeve Luther was a man that laboured under great temptations and being once sorely tempted and the teares trickling down his cheeks saies he my friend my spiritual father came unto me and said O my son why doest thou mourne doest thou not know that God hath commanded thee to beleeve When saies Luther I heard that word Command that God hath Commanded me to beleeve it prevail'd more with my heart than all that was said or thought on before So say I now unto ye Does Satan come with this temptation and tell thee the Promise don't belong to thee Answer I but the Lord hath Commanded me to beleeve Satan God hath Commanded me to beleeve 't is my duty now at this time to beleeve but I cannot beleeve unlesse I apply the Promise therefore I may go by commission from God unto the Promise and the Promise does belong to me Thus give in these answers so shall ye be able to stand and to relye upon God and your faith of Reliance shall not fail This is the first thing The faith of Reliance Secondly Quest 2 How does Satan strike or labour to weaken the faith of Assurance the Assurance of Gods people Much may be said here Answ 't is a large field I shall only gather up some few things and present them to you Sometimes Satan does labour to weaken the Assurance of the Saints By telling them that they have no faith Assurance is the flower of faith it grows upon faith but you have no faith saies Satan and therefore your assurance is naught But how unreasonable is this temptation for observe I pray in what rounds Satan goes He tempts us to beleeve that we have no faith because we have no Assurance and he tempts us again to beleeve we have no Assurance because we have no faith For answer hereunto I shall only turn unto that 4. to the Romans It is said of Abraham at the 21. verse Being fully perswaded that what God had promised he was able also to perform And therefore at the 22. it was imputed to him for righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we beleeve on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead Abraham was justified by faith it was imputed to him for righteousnesse and saies the Apostle here it was not written for his sake but for us also We are justisied as Abraham was by the same faith what faith is that is it the faith of Assurance Yes he was Assured indeed but I pray of what He was Assured that God was able to performe He being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform Abraham beleeved that God was able and so relyed upon God and hereby he was justified So it shall be with men and women now if they be Assured and Perswaded that God is able and so relye upon God this is the faith that justifies When therefore this temptation comes Answer unto Satan Satan thou saiest I have no Assurance because I have no faith but I have this Assurance that Abraham had whereby he was justified I beleeve God

Saviour Christ say to Peter The gates of Hell shall not prevail against thee and yet now Satan tempts if Satan know this why should he follow Gods children yea the best of his children so sorely with sad temptations Satan is the envious man we reade of in Scripture Answ 1 and when he hears the Lord owning and honouring of his children then does his envy work and rise and when he hears any of Gods children triumphing by faith and making boast of the love of God then does his malice kindle into a flame shall such a one go to Heaven and shall I be damn'd saies he shall such a one be received and shall I be cast away for ever These are the boylings of this envious mans heart against the children of the most high But there is this great reason for it Answ 2 Satan knows that if he can but make Gods people and the best of his children fall though they should not be damn'd but pardoned that their fall shall be stumbling blocks unto others that may be damn'd And therefore I pray mark how it is carried concerning Dauid it is said in the 1 Chron. 21. chapter and the 1. verse That Satan stood up against Israel to provoke David to number Israel It is not said thus And Satan stood up against David and provoked David to number Israel no but thus And Satan sood up against Israel and provoked David to number the people he stood up against Israel why because he know that if he did make David thus to number the people it would be a stumbling for all Israel and all Israel should fare the worse by it When Satan stands up and tempts the master of a family unto sin he does not barely stand up against him but in tempting him he stands up against all the family When Satan tempts a religious holy man a beloved Disciple of Christ in a Town Satan stands up against all the Town in tempting that one man He stood up against Israel and tempted David to number the people and so when he tempts those that are the most beloved Disciples of Christ he stands up against others and therefore though Satan knows that their sins shall be pardoned yet he does follow them with sad and sore temptations Answ 3 Thirdly Satan loves to divide between friends he is the great make-bait of the world he loves to divide He may know that there is so much goodness between man and wife that he shal never part them and yet he will labour to sow discord between them that they may live uncomfortably And so though he knows he shall never part Christ and a poor beleever yet he will labour to throw jealousies into the heart of a beleever concerning the love of Christ He knew well enough what was said concerning our Saviour Christ What was said by the Angels at the birth of Christ what was said by the Angel to Mary what was said by Elizabeth he heard what was said from Heaven This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and yet presently he comes to Christ with an If If thou be the Son of God laboring to throw a jealousy into the heart of Christ and to doubt of his Son-ship even with God the Father So I say although Satan should know that the Lord will pardon such of such a man yet he loves to make a division between God and the soul and to cast in jealusies between Christ and a beleever As for others saies he they are my own already I shal not need to break into that house there is nothing but chaffe lies there but here 's a godly man and here 's treasure and therefore he does especially lay his battery against the Satines and those that are the most beloved Disciples of Jesus Christ But you will say unto me Quest 3 How does Satan come by this tempting power this infesting and molesting power Great is the power as we have read already that he hath as he is a Superiour creature Ausw but Satan hath yet another power and that is the power of Conquest for in Adams fall Satan conquered the whol world all man-kind they were the Devils conquest upon the fall When a man is Converted and trun'd to God then he comes out of the kingdom of Satan But I say upon the fall the Devil made a conquest upon all man-kind and so by conquest he hath a great power Satan hath heave from God the Father to tempt I don't say that he hath a special leave for every temptation not a special commission or permission or leave for every temptation but there is no great or extraordinary temptation that does fall upon the children of God but Satan hath a special leave from God the Father for it There was a special temptation upon the Country in his running their herd of swine into the Sea and he had leave for that before he did it There was a special temptation upon Ahab in the lying spirit of the Prophets and he had a special leave and permission from God for that There was a special temptation upon Job and he had a leave for that Here was a special temptation coming down upon the Disciples and he had leave for that Simon Simon Satan hath desired you He was fain to ask leave and he had leave for that There is no extraordinary or great temptation befals any of the children of God but Satan is fain to ask leave for it he hath a leave for it before he can come and tmept the soul But you will sa then unto me Quest 4 Why does God the Father give Satan leave thus to tempt his own Children and Christs own Disciples First take it thus Lood whatsoever is the end Answ 1 and the issue of any evil which befals the children of God that was the design of God the Father in suffering that evil to come upon them Now the end and issue of the Saints temptation is alwaies good unto them and therefore God suffers the temptations of his people because he hath a design of mercy and love upon them in these temptations What was the end and issue of Satans tempting of Adam and Eve They fell and then the righteousness of Christ and eternal life thereby was brought in this was the end and the issue of it Now God the Father had this design upon Satans temptation all the while Satan was tempting of Adam and the Lord would never have suffered our heel to have been bruised by Satans temptation but that he did intend to break the head of Satan It was a great temptation that of David when as Satan stood up and provoked him to number the people pray what was the end and issue of that temptation I shall only name the Scriptures The 1 Chron. the 21. chapter and the 22. chapter and the beginning of it and the 2 Chron. the 3. chapter and 1. verse compared together you shall find this First Satan tempts David he

a prison he rattles chaines in the ears of a poor beleever and so labours to scare him away from his conscience and from his faith and from the Truth and Cause of God and the good waies of Christ How shold we ward off this blow Quest First Answ 1 Before the temptaton comes labour to possesse your heart much with the Mercy and priviledge of suffering for the Cause Truth Name and Way of Christ To you it is given not only to beleeve but to suffer 't is a great Gift A suffering opportunity and a suffering heart is a great Gift from God Is it not a great mercy to be conformable to Jesus Christ our head For this Cause saies Christ came I into the world that I might bear witness unto the truth Is it not a great mercy to be confessed at the last day before all the world Angels and men He that confesses me before men saies Christ Him will I confess before my father c. Is it not a great mercy to live and reigne with Christ a thousand years ye know that Scripture I shall not speak of the meaning of it now but cerainly there is a great deal of glory promised there living and reigning with Christ a thousand years and the promise is made unto those that do acknowledge and own the Cause and Truth of God and Jesus Christ Possesse your heart much with the priviledge and mercy of bearing witness to the Truth the Cause and the good way of Christ before your temptation comes Secondly Answ 2 If you would bear off the blow of this temptation Be sure that you look upon both sides of your suffering or bearing witness to the Truth Cause or way of Christ the Dark side and the Light side let them not be sundered When the Lord cals for any of his people to suffer at any time for him he does give them more strength than before and he does give them more Comfort and Consolation than they had before Now Satan comes and holds forth the suffering he makes mention of the suffering but he hides the Strength and the Consolation Either Satan holds forth the suffering alone or else if he do mention any strength or comfort that a gracious soul shall have in the suffering 't is but the same strength that he hath now he don't speak of the strength he shall have then and the great Consolation that he shall have then when the suffering comes and so these being parted the Suffering and the Consolation being parted now our faith fails When ever therefore this temptation does come upon you answer thus Satan here thou bringest the suffering before me and causest that to come before me but thou doest not tell me of the strength I shall have and of the consolation I shal receive Satan I shall not have the strength I have now nor the consolation I have now but I shall have more strength then when the suffering comes and I shall have more consolation when as the affliction comes than I had before Keep these together don't look only upon the one side of your suffering and witness-bearing but look upon both sides together and thus you shall be able to stand and ride out the storm of this temptation But you will say Quest We have heard of the several blowes that Satan gives unto our faith unto the faith of Reliance unto the faith of Assurance and unto the faith of Acknowledgment how he labours to weaken all these our faiths and how we should bear off al these blows But there may be yet some temptation possibly that does not fall within the compass of these temptations these directions are pointed against these particular temptations but I have other temptations that don't fall within the compass of these whereby Satan labours to weaken my faith and to make my faith to fail What general Rules and Directions may be given by which a man should so walk as that Satan may not make his faith to fail in the time of his temptation First Answ 1 Before your temptation comes while you are upon even ground Study and look much into the Scripture and into every corner and nook thereof as I may so speak laying and treasuring up Promises and Words sutable to every condition Let the Word of the Lord dwell in you richly that so when a temptation comes ye may have a word sutable at hand and this will help ye to bear off the strength of the temptation when it comes Secondly Answ 2 Either a particular Word and Promise does come unt ye or it does not in the time of your temptation If it do come unto ye Take heed that ye dont ' measure your selves or your condition by the warmth and life and inlargment of your heart which ye have at the coming in of the word And if a particular word or Scripture and promise do not come unto you in the time of your temptation don't measure your selves and your condition by the straightness and deadnesse of your heart which you have at that time when a particular word does not come Thirdly If temptaion come Answ 3 Look much unto the infirmities of Jesus Christ not the sinful infirmities for so he had none but he had many other infirmities And ye know what the Spouse in the time of Desertion saies in the book of the Canticles His left hand is under my head and with his right hand he does imbrace me The right hand is a hand of power and the left hand is a hand of weaknesse and in the time of Desertion and Temptation it 's a great relief to a poor soul to consider the infirmities of Jesus Christ his left hand is under our head then As when a man is inlarged in heart 't is good to consider of Christs Example that so he may be humbled under his inlargement So when a man is in Desertion or Temptation it 's good for to think of Christs Infirmities that so he may not be overwhelmed or cast down too much Fourthly If temptation do come be sure of this Answ 4 That ye don't conclude it is no temptation Satan tempts and then he tempts a man to think it is no temptation So long as a poor soul thinks it is but a temptation his heart is borne up with comfort and he saies It is but a temptation and it will be over shortly and the Lord Jesus Christ will pity me for 't is but a temptation and so his heart is borne up with comfort waiting upon God But if the Devil can get a man so far as to make him think it is no temptation but worse than a temptation then his heart fails and his faith failes Therefore I beseech ye If a temptation come don't conclude it is no temptation but say Oh! it may be 't is a temptation and therefore I will wait on God Fifthly If temptation come Answ 5 Remember thine own soul of the waies of God with thee Gods waies ye know