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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96272	Two sermons one against adultery, the other of the nature, art, and issue of the Christian warfare : with a discourse shewing the consistency of God's infinite goodness with His foreknowledge of the fall of man / by Nathanael Whaley ...	Whaley, Nathanael, 1637?-1709.; Whaley, Nathanael, 1637?-1709. A discourse shewing the consistency of God's infinite goodness with His foreknowledge of the fall of man.	1698 (1698)	Wing W1533A; ESTC R43579	50,933	141

the foulest Treachery towards him tempting his Wife out of his Bosom to commit Lewdness and Perjury Prov. 2.17 to break her most sacred Vows to forsake the Guide of her Youth and renounce the Covenant of her God To be the Plague and Ruin of her Family to endure the utmost Hatred and Scorn of Men and for a few Moments of false Pleasure to be eternally damn'd who is a common Enemy to Mankind who defies the impartial Justice of Heaven and breaks through all the Fences of Modesty Religion and the Fear of Hell to steal a forbidden Pleasure and to ravish an infamous and impure Enjoyment If this be a Man of Virtue and Honour 't is time to cashier the Distinctions of good and evil After this let all Contradictions be reconciled let Light be cloathed with Sables and Darkness put on the Brightness and Serenity of the Day let there be no more dispute about the Nature or Merit of Actions but let all things be just as every mans Fancy or Humour paints them Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes But pause a little and know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment I proceed now to the second General II. The use which Joseph made of this Thought upon the rude Assault of his Master's Wife By the Impulse of it he immediately dasht the Temptation and rescued his Innocence with this pious Answer How can I do this great Wickedness c. which came very naturally from one that had been blest with a virtuous Education that was brought up in the Fear of God and descended as Joseph was from the best-ordered and the most religious Family upon Earth whose great Ancestor was dignified with the character of the Friend of God and of one that would command his Children and his houshold after him Gen. 18.19 that they should keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment Jacob also had frequent Entercourse with God Gen. 37.3 and Joseph being his Father's Darling there is no doubt but he took particular care to adorn and enrich his M●nd with good Principles as he had done to cloath him with costly and invidious Raiment And this was it that preserv'd his Innocence upheld his Integrity and laid the Foundation of all his Greatness in Egypt It was the Fear of God timely and gradually instill'd into him by his religious Parent which made him inflexible to all Temptations even in his boyling Youth and amidst the most inflaming and importuning Circumstances And from hence we gain the following Instructions 1. That the strongest Temptations to the most flattering and deceitfull Vices are not invincible There is no Age of the Life of Man so eager of forbidden Pleasures or so little acquainted with the Fallacies of them as Youth And if frail Youth when so highly tempted can refuse to sin and is able to withstand the Charms and Allurements of Female Courtship if a Hebrew Servant can despise the Flames of an Egyptian Lady was not caught by her treacherous Wiles nor bended by her Commands neither by her smiling nor imperious Looks was not vanquisht by her repeated Importunities nor awed by the Fears of her Revenge nor inveigl'd by the hopes of Secrecy nor soften'd by the Liberties of Egypt nor betray'd by the Frailties of Flesh and Blood then surely are all the Forces of Vice resistible and there is no Danger of any Compulsion to be wicked If Joseph refused the most flattering Pleasures and Moses the Royal Honours and Delights of the Court of Egypt chusing rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God Heb. 11.25 than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season No man in the like circumstances can have any reason to complain that he lies under a necessity of sinning For let the man that would fain discharge his sins upon the Fatality of humane Actions consider with himself whether he has not the same Faculties which other men have the same power of chusing and refusing what is fit and unfit to be done of weighing the Arguments on both sides and determining on that which best recommends it self to his Reason and Judgment And what it is that hinders him from being as stanch and resolute against a wicked Custom or Action as those whom the same Arguments which lie before him have prevailed upon and the excellent Men of all Ages have ever been If he thinks that all Mankind are determined by a rigid and irresistible Fate to do all the evil that has been done in the world let in reconcile his opinion if he can to the general Sense and Experience of Mankind who are conscious of nothing more than a Freedom of Choice and Action and find it natural to chide and accuse themselves for acting contrary to the Dictates of their own reason and the holy Oracles of God insomuch that if they had the highest Freedom imaginable they could not have greater Assurance of it than they now have of that degree of Liberty which is commonly ascribed to them and every penitent Sinner is an undeniable Witness and Confessor of And here I would ask the Fatalist a fair question or two As first what greater Evidence can there be of a free Agent in any criminal Case than his pleading guilty to the Indictments of his own Conscience Secondly What better Argument than this can he or any other Fatalist bring to prove the contrary And then Thirdly I would only ask him How he knows himself to be a necessary Agent since no other Agents of this kind have any Knowledge of the Principles they are acted by And 't is certain they have no use of any such knowledge being wholly moved and determined by external Causes and Objects or some secret instinct whose Powers they never dispute or fail of their obedience to and yet as truly serve the end of their Beings as if they had all the Perfections of an Angel to dispose them to it And the like answer may be given to the Plea of humane Frailty as it is frequently urged to lessen the Grace of God and to magnifie the power of Temptations above the stated Measures and Attainments of it viz. that it contradicts the experience of all the great Examples of Virtue and Piety and the Confessions of penitent and self-convicted Sinners who when they are most sensible of the Frailties of humane Nature and are themselves some of the saddest Instances of them do heartily bewail their easie Compliances and score their Miscarriages upon their own Folly and Wickedness 'T is indeed a common and in some mens esteem a very plausible excuse to say It was ill done but what Flesh could withstand such Temptations The greatest Virtue must have submitted to them But how do they know this that have so little Virtue as to libel