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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. TEMPTATIONS PECULIAR TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, OR ESPECIALLY AFFECTING THEM. When we speak of temptations peculiar to the children of God, we do not wish it to be supposed that the children of God are not assailed by the temptations that are common to men in general. Satan accosts the children of God with the same temptations with which he accosts the children of this world; but with less frequency, because there is less probability of success-- they having been renewed in the spirit of their minds, and thus feeling a dislike to sin in general as sin, and an abhorrence and dread of the more gross sins. And here Satan displays his sagacity in accommodating his temptations to the constitution and circumstances of those whom he is tempting. In some of the temptations with which Satan attacks the children of God, his object is rather to annoy and distress, than corrupt. The tendency of the temptations is indeed to corrupt, as is the tendency of every temptation, and it is Satan's wish to corrupt by them ; but, from the little hope he has of corrupting, he aims rather at annoying and distressing by them. In some cases, as he is well aware, he acts under the special permission and vigilant control of God, when, whatever else he may be able to effect, he is certain that he will not be able to induce to commit sin. This was the case of the peculiar temptation of the apostle Paul, which he describes as "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." Whatever this peculiar temptation was, it is certain that Paul was exercised by it by the special permission of God; for he declares that "it was given to him ;" and that God permitted it for some very important purpose in connexion with his Christian character, and his work as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ; for he f...
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