[ 1195] It is Grace, not place, that keeps a Man from sinning.
IT is said of Lot,* 1.1 that he removed from Zoar to a neighbouring mountain, and dwelt in a cave therein,* 1.2 which is shown to Travellors at this day; Now it was that a hole in a hill could hold him and all his Family, whose substance formerly was so great,* 1.3 the whole Country could not afford room for his flocks and heardmen, without striving with those of his Uncle Abraham. And here it was, that he was made drunken by his Daughters practice upon him, with whom he committed incest; So that it is Grace, not place, can secure Mens souls from sinne; seeing Lot fasting from lust in wanton & populous Sodom, surfeited thereof in a solitary cave, and whilst he carefully fenced the Castle of chastity, even to make it impregnable against the battery of forraign force, he never suspected to be surprised by the treachery of his own family.