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80 The Larger Catechiſm. not into Temptation, but deliver w from Evil d] ac- knowledging that the moſt wife, righteous and gra- ciouſ God, for divers holy and juſt Ends, may ſo order Things, that we may be aſſaultad, ſolled, and for a Time led Captive by Temptations e; that Sa- tan f, the World g, and the Fleſh, are ready pow- erfully to draw us aſide and ensnare us h; and that we even after the Pardon of our Sins, by reaſon of our Corruption i, Weakneſs, and want of Watch- fulneſs, are not only ſubject to be tempted, and forward to expoſe ourſelves unto Temptation l, but also of ouſelves unable and unwilling to reſiſt them, to recover out of them and to improve them m, and worthy to be left under the Power of them n; We pray, that God would ſo overrule the World, and an in it o, ſubdue the Flesh p, and reſtrain Sa- tan q, order all things r, bestow and bleſs all Means of Grace ſ, and quicken us to Watchfulneſſ in the Uſe of them, that we and all his people may, by his Providence, be kept from being tempted to Sin or, if tempted, that, by his Spirit, we may be pow- erfully ſupported and enabled to ſtand in the Hour of Temptation ; or, when fallen, raiſed again, and recovered out of it, and have a ſanctiſied Uſe and Improvement thereof, that our Sanctification and Salvation may be perfected y, Satan troden under our Feet z, and we fully freed from Sin, Temptati- on and all Evil, for ever a. d Mar. vi. 13. c 2 Chr. xxxii. 31. f 1 Chr. xxi. 1. g Luke xxi. 34. Mark iv. 19. h James i. 14. i Gal. v. 17. k Mat. xxvi. 41. l Mat. xxvi. 69, to 73. Gal. ii. 11, to 15.2 Chr. xviii. 3. & xix. 2 m Rom. vii. 23, 24. 1 Chr. xxi. 1. to 5. 2 Chr. xvi. 7, to 11. n Pſal. lxxxi, 11, 12. o John xvii. 15. p Pſal. li. 10. & cxix. 133. q 2 Cor. xli. 7. 8. r I Cor x 12, 13. ſ Heb. xvi. 20, 21. t Mat. xxvi. 41. Pſal. xix: 13. v Eph.