shew what a temptation in generall is. 2. Open Satans power in tempting. To tempt is to take a triall of any, to try what is in them;Gl. Paisi∣ens tact Chatwright Cath. c. 4. therefore the neerest end of tempting is know∣ledge; Now the waies or manner of bringing out this know∣ledge, rendreth the temptation good or ill: for God tempteth, and Satan tempteth. So Temptation is a working upon the senses, reason, inclintion, affections, by which any is, or may be moved under the colour of good, toward that which is offensive to God.Satan can not fire the wil, against our will.1. Temptation is a working, or an act of stirring in the tempte, not Physicall, but Morall, and Objectiv; no tempter, who is only a tempter, can by any reall action fire the will. Satan doth but knock, by his Logick, at the out-side of the doore, but cannot open. Free-will is a tender, excellent, piece of creation; and either the best or the worst of the whole creation of God. See well to it, its a worke of your whole life time to watch this doore.Every tempted creture is a sufferer.2. Tentation is an act of moving, or stirring the powers of the man: As when wine is stirred, and wine and dreggs are jumbled through other; or a Fountaine troubled, and water and clay mixed in one; hence every tempted person is some way a sufferer,, Perforo tento. though hee know not particularly it is so. As the Fish tempted with the bate, the Bird with the Fow∣lers song, are sufferers, though they know not; there is a breaking in upon the phancie, sense, reason, will, and affecti∣ons to strike a hole in the soule; So tempting is called piercing, though the foole going to the chambers of death, knoweth not that it is for his life, Prov. 7.23. To be tempted is a matter of great concernment;Its good to know when we are tempt∣ed, and what God and Sa∣tan ayme at. illumination is most necessary here, and specially to know that God aymeth at the tryall of our Faith, and other glorious ends. And that 1. Satan seekes some of his owne worke in us, as God seeketh to bring out some of his worke in us. 2. That Satan aymes to goe betweene the be∣leever and his strong hold. 3. That he aymeth at house-roome in the soule.3. The temptation works upon both, the inward and out∣ward man; on senses, fancie, minde, inclination, will, and af∣fection, but hath a speciall designe at the soule.4. By the temptation any is, or may be moved to sinne; for all tempted, are not actually induced to sinne. Christ was real∣ly 0