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...— . — that ye would walk worthy of God." Hi. j, 8, — "Ifent to know your faith, left by fome means the. tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in -vain. For now we live, if ye ii and faft in the Lord." iv. 7, 8, " God hath 'not called us unto uncleannefs,...

...we. would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us." Again he says, " When I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means, the tempter, having tempted you, our labour be in vain." The Apostle James, likewise, says, " Resist the devil,...

...in. -5. " For this caufe, when I could no longer forbear, 1 fent to know y ,ur faith, left by fome means, the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." — There is no grace that Satan envies and invades fo much as this of faith. This, though not expreffed,...

...even as it came to pass, and ye He exhorteth them I. Thessalonians. to go on in godliness. know. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6 But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us 'good tidings of your faith and charity,...

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...you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass, and ye know. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6 But now, when Timothcus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity,...

...we were with you, we" told you before, that we should suffer .tribulation ; even as it came to pass. For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." Though these " fightings without," and these " fears within," are always painful to the flesh, yet...

...destroy. How forcibly doth he repeatedly express this in his epistles ? See 1 Thess. iii. 5 — 10. "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your...

...word seems to be used in the following passages, " Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain."* In this sense the word is to be understood, when James says, " God cannot be tempted," and in the same...