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Incline not; suffer it not to be inclined or led aside, either by my own errors or lusts, or by the temptations of the world or of the devil. Thus God is frequently said to harden men’s hearts, not positively, for he can do no evil, nor tempt any man to it, Jam_1:3; but privatively, by denying softening grace.
My heart; keep me not only from wicked speeches, Psa_141:3, but from all evil motions of my heart, which otherwise will draw me to many evil speeches and actions.
To practice wicked works with men that work iniquity; either,
1. To join with them in their sinful courses; or,
2. To do wickedly, as they do.
Let me not eat of their dainties; let me never enjoy or desire worldly comforts upon such terms as they do, to wit, with God’s wrath and curse, as instruments of wickedness, and of my own eternal destruction. My afflictions are more desirable than such prosperity. Let none of their sweet morsels, the pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wickedness, tempt me to approve of or imitate their ways.