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"Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him." Ishmael closed the book and bowed his head in serious thought. "Yes," he said to himself; "I suppose it must be so. The servant is not greater than the Master. He was tempted in the very opening of his ministry; and I suppose every follower of him must be tempted in like manner in the beginning of his life.
How, indeed, couldst thou, O child, encounter that Karna who leaveth not a single mark unhit amongst even a thousand that he may aim at all at once? How couldst thou, O child, encounter that Bhishma who hath no equal in the whole world of men?
To make satisfaction amounts to no more than completely to answer a legal demand for harms and injuries done. Now this, when done to the full, leaveth the offender there where he was before he committed the injury. Now, if Christ had done no more than this, he had only paid our debt, but had not obtained eternal redemption for us.
"The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright." "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." The storm is lulled: the billows of temptation have ebbed away from shore, and the clouds of adversity have flown to other skies.
Now death is one of the most certain of those dispensations; yea, and such, that it leaveth to those no help at all, or means to perform for ever, that which, shouldst thou want it, that is lacking to thy work.
Moses now leaveth the genealogy for a while, and searcheth into the state and condition of the church now after so long a time as its standing upwards of, or above, a thousand years: where he presently findeth two things. 1. The church declined. 2. And God provoked. Wherefore he maketh inquiry into the nature of the church's sin; which he relateth in this following chapter.
Whether Eternal reprobation in itself, or in its doctrine, be in very deed an hindrance to any man in seeking the salvation of his soul. In my discourse upon this question, I must entreat the reader to mind well what is premised in the beginning of the former chapter, which is, That reprobation makes no man a sinner, appoints no man to condemnation, but leaveth him upright after all.
I have no doubt that, with the blessing of God, and a little of thy exhortation, he will turn out a true Christian before he leaveth us. 'My exhortation! said Peter, and a dark shade passed over his countenance; 'thou forgettest what I am I I but I am forgetting myself; the Lord's will be done; and now put away the things, for I perceive that our friends are coming to attend us to the place of meeting.
But now leaveth the tale to tell of him, and taketh up the word concerning his wife. Here saith the tale that much sorrowful was the fair lady and heavy of heart, when she called to mind how she had cast her lord out of his house.
Q. How is self-denial a proof of the truth of a man's affections to God? A. In that for the sake of his service, he leaveth all his enjoyments in this world. Q. What reason else can you produce why God requireth self-denial? Q. Is there yet another reason why God requireth self-denial of them that profess his name?
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