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Thy Preſence, help and comfort ſhall	Heb. 2. 18.
with tempted me, endure
If by ſome wrong Mean I be tempt
to fill my Nature's luſt:	Mat. 4. 3.
Or God to tempt, neglecting Means,	& 4. 5
under pretence of truſt,
To help or hazard Life, ſome way,
which God will not allow:
I ſee thee ſtill before me, Lord,
my Helper here be thou.
Tis true my Fleſh doth grieve to think
what may thy Saints befall:
What horrible Suggeſtions,
and Blaſphemies with all:
What Shapes and Apparitions,	Mat. 1. 4. 8.
by Night ſome, ſome by Day:
Yea power of this Fleſh, yet thou
to us'd my fear do ſtay.
Moſt dangerous of all me thinks,
when Satan God to ſcorn,
In falſe Religion Worſhip craves,
and bides both Hoof and Horn.	Mat. 3. 6.
And Angels-like in ſome Mans Mouth,
bides to ſome Image bow:
And worldly Motives brings thy Truth,
to cauſe me disavow.
In this Caſe, Lord, give Light, that I	Mat. 10.
may Satan bid avoid:
For thouſands here for fault of Light,
guld have been and deſtroy'd.
To free me from this ill I know
new trouble ſhall me breed,
And make the World me perſecute
with ſpite, in Word and Deed