Of Temptation: The Nature and Power of It

Let them take heed of self-confidence who have any mind to take heed of sin.

In such a time be vigilant, be circumspect, or thou wilt be surprised. Job says, that in his affliction "God made his heart soft." There is a hardness, an insensible want of spiritual sense, gathered in prosperity, that,…

Prosperity and temptation go together; yea, prosperity is a temptation, many temptations, and that because, without eminent supplies of grace, it is apt to cast a soul into a frame and temper exposed to any temptation, a…

A man knows not the pride, fury, madness of a corruption, until it meet with a suitable temptation.

There are traitors in our hearts, ready to take part, to close, and side with every temptation, and to give up all to them; yea, to solicit and bribe temptations to do the work, as traitors incite an enemy.

Confidence of any strength in us is one great part of our weakness; it was so in Peter. He that says he can do any thing, can do nothing as he should.

It is the great duty of all believers to use all diligence in the ways of Christ's appointment, that they fall not into temptation.