Temptation
What a comfort is this; when Satan is tempting, Christ is praying! [ATFG]
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He that is your tempter now will one day be your tormentor. [ASGTH]
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Though Satan cannot rob a Christian of his crown, yet such is his malice, that he will therefore tempt, that he may spoil them of their comforts. [PRASD]
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Such is Satan’s enmity to the Father, that the nearer and dearer any child is to Him, then Satan will trouble him and vex him with temptations. Christ himself was most near and dear, most innocent and most excellent, and yet none so much tempted as Christ. [PRASD]
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Christ could have overcome Satan by power, but he did it by argument. [TBR]
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If the soul when it is tempted, resists temptation … then is the temptation no sin upon [a man’s] soul, though it be trouble on his mind. [PRASD]
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It is not Satan’s tempting, but your assenting; not his enticing, but your yielding, that makes temptations hurtful to your soul. [PRASD]
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Temptation is God’s school , wherein he gives his people the clearest and sweetest discoveries of his love; a school wherein God teaches his people to be more frequent and fervent in duty. [PRASD]
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Of all temptations, one of the most fatal and pernicious is evil companions. [ASGTH]
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Our whole life is beset with temptations. Satan watches all opportunities to break our peace, to wound our consciences, to lessen our comforts, to impair our graces, to slur our evidences, and to damp our assurances. Oh! What need then have we to be always upon our watch-tower, lest we be surprised by this subtle serpent. Watchfulness includes a waking, a rousing up of the soul. It is a continual, careful observing of our hearts and ways, in all the turnings of our lives, that we still keep close to God and his Word. [PRASD]