How a man may know when he is entered into temptation. What directions are to be given for the preventing of our entering into temptation. What seasons there are wherein a man may and ought to fear that an hour of temptation is at hand. How shall a man know whether he be entered into temptation or no, is our first inquiry. When a man is drawn into any sin, he may be sure that he hath entered into temptation.
Sin is a fruit that comes only from that root.
This men sometimes take no notice of, to their great disadvantage. When they are overtaken with a sin they set themselves to repent of that sin, but do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it, to set themselves against that also to take care that they enter no more into it. Hence are they quickly again entangled by it, though they have the greatest detestation of the sin itself that can be expressed. This is a folly that possesses many who have yet a quick and living sense of sin. Temptations have several degrees.