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The Christians exercise by Satans temptations: or, An essay to discover the methods which this adversary useth to tempt the children of God; and to direct them how to escape the mischief thereof. Being the substance of several sermons preached on that subject. By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. [One line from James]
Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.Date: 1701- Books
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A reviving cordial for a sin-sick despairing soul, in the time of temptation. The same being an extract of the worthy author's experience of the particulars following. I. The miraculous Preservation of his bodily Life, from the many Deaths and eminent Dangers which threatned it, while in a State of Nature. II. The Method God took with him, in awakning him to look into, and to mind Soul-Concerns, when about Fourteen Years of Age. III. How the Spirit of Bondage took him, and what fearful Work it made in his Soul. IV. How the Spirit of Adoption succeeded the Spirit of Bondage, healing and binding up the deep Wounds caused in his Soul thereby. By the Reverend Mr. James Barry Minister of the Gospel.
Barry, James.Date: 1722- Books
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Of temptation, and the means to prevent its prevalence. A sermon Preached at Founders-Hall, in Lothbury, Octob. XX. 1715. By Samuel Rosewell, M. A. Published at the Request of the Society to which it was Preach'd.
Rosewell, Samuel, 1679-1722.Date: [1715]- Books
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The bloody gardener's garland; composed with several excellent new songs. I, The bloody gardiner's garlan[d]. II, As I went over the county of Cavin. III, The dog and the gun. IV, Gi'e my love brose and butter. V. The sweet temptation.
Date: 1779- Books
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The Poor sinner's stedfast faith in Christ: or, The victory over the Devil. Giving a full and true account of one Sarah Barber, lately living in Old Grave-lane, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's Stepney, near Ratcliff-highway, over-against the Three Black-birds, who was tempted by the devil on the 27th day of September last, but more especially on Saturday night past he appear'd to her again, in the shape of a middle-aged man, in a darksih-brown coat with his hat slapping about his ears; shewing her several bags of money, tempting her to forsake God, to follow him and his counsel, and he would supply all her wants: But she having a stedfast faith in Christ, she made him this answer, get thee behind me Satan, for thou was a liar from the beginning, and so continues to this very day. I value not thy gold nor sivler, nor what thou canst do to me in this world, for I hope in Jesus Christ that he will be my support and defence. Whereupon the Rev. Mr. Thomas Dodds, and the Rev. Mr. Richard Pritchet, ministers of Stepney, came and prayed by her, begging of Almighty God to enable her to overcome the temptation of the Devil. To which is added, a sermon, preached upon that occasion, also, prayers to be used in time of sickness and temptations of the Devil, and for to trust in God.
Date: between ca. 1750 and 1790?]- Pictures
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A man walking arm in arm with a woman looks back with temptation at another woman standing in a doorway representing a warning to stick to one partner; a safe-sex advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad & Tobago. Colour lithograph by Everald Clarke, ca. 1990's.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 679014i- Books
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A comfortable treatise, for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in conscience : Reuised the fourth time, corrected, interlaced, and enlarged in many places. With an addition of sundrie testimonies of holy Scriptures; whereunto the afflicted may resort, as to a shaddow in the scalding heat of temptation. By R. Linaker.
Linaker, Robert, 1550 or 1551-1618Date: 1620- Books
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A comfortable treatise, for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in conscience : Reuised the third time, corrected, interlaced, and enlarged in many places. With an addition of sundrie testimonies of Holy Scripture; whereunto the afflicted may resort, as to a shadow in the scalding heate of temptation. By R. Linaker.
Linaker, Robert, 1550 or 1551-1618Date: 1607- Books
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God not the origin of evil. Being an additional sermon to a collection of Mr. Collier's discourses, &c.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1726- Digital Images
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Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Woodcut, 1493.
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing a full, ample, accurate, instructive, and universal history of every transaction in the life of our glorious redeemer, from His taking upon himself our sinful Nature, to his Crucifixion, Resurrection from the Dead, and his Glorious Ascension into Heaven. Particularly his Genealogy, Incarnation, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Divine Mission, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Sufferings, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Charity, Meekness, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension into Heaven. Together with The Lives, Transactions, and Sufferings of his Holy Evangelists, Apostles, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs, who have sealed the great Truth of Christianity with their Blood; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. James the Great, St. Andrew, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, &c. &c. &c. Including the Transactions of John the Baptist, the great Forerunner of the Messiah; as also the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, &c. &c. To which is added, a full defence of the Christian religion, In which the Evidences of Christianity are fairly stated, the New Testament proved to be genuine, and the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind truly Divine. The whole Properly adapted to promote the Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a firm Faith in the Merits of Our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of The History of the Holy Bible, Published by the King's Authority.
Fleetwood, John.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Every man his own letter-writer: or, the new and complete art of letter-writing made plain and familiar to every capacity. Containing a collection of upwards of two hundred original letters, On the most interesting, important, and instructive Subjects, and adapted for general Use and Benefit, by directing every Person to indite Letters, without any other Assistance, on all the various Occasions of Life. But more particularly on the following Heads, viz. Adversity, Advice, Affection, Ambition, Anger, Avarice, Benevolence, Business, Centure, Charity, Confidence, Condolance, Courtship, Dependance, Diligence, Duty, Education, Emulation, Excellence, Fame, Fidelity, Flattery, Folly, Friendship, Frugality, Generosity, Gratitude, Guilt, Happiness, Honour, Hope, Humanity, Indiscretion, Indolence, Integrity, Industry, Justice, Learning, Love, Marriage, Modesty, Moderation, Morality, Negligence, Passion, Patience, Peevishness, Piety, Pleasure, Politeness, Pride, Prodigality, Prudence, Reproof, Religion, Retirement, Secrecy, Shame, Sobriety, Solitude, Temptation, Trade, Truth, Variety, Vice, Virtue, Understanding, Wisdom, Wit, Letter-Writing. To which is added, A Collection of Complimentary Cards, with Directions for addressing Persons of all Ranks and Conditions. Likewise a new System of English Oratory, containing the Art of speaking in Public with Propriety and Elegance. Also The Art of pleasing in Conversation, with Rules and Maxims to form the polite and entertaining Companion. To which are prefixed, A Plain and Familiar Grammar, or an easy Guide to the Knowledge of the English Tongue. With general Directions for writing Letters to all Ranks of People. The Whole adapted to the Genius, Taste, and Manners of the present Times, and containing a greater Number of Original Letters than were ever published in a single Collection before. By the Reverend James Wallace, D.D. and Charles Townshend, A.M.
Wallace, James, D.D.Date: [1782?]- Pictures
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Eve offers a large condom to Adam as she holds the apple of temptation behind her; the serpent looks on from behind a tree in dismay; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas and Centro Nacional de Educacion para la salud Ministerio de Salud Publica, Cuba. Colour lithograph by Leonardo, 1993.
Date: [19]93Reference: 679133i- Books
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Verba opportuna. The circumstances of Boston considered; on the occasion of some occurrences, with which the minds of the people in that populous place, have been considerably exercised. With fresh and strong inculcations of early piety, on the young people, in a place where temptations to youthful lusts are multiplied. A lecture, on 3d. XIIm. 1714-15. [Two lines from Ezekiel]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1715- Books
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A sermon concerning temptations. Preach'd before the Queen in the Chappel-Royal at St. James's, on Wednesday, February the 24th. 1702/3. By George Stanhope D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd by Her Majesty's Special Command.
Stanhope, George, 1660-1728.Date: MDCCIII. [1703]- Ephemera
Bags of temptations.
Date: [1994]- Books
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Faith's trial and triumph: or, the soul's conflict with temptation, And Rejoicing when Victory is obtained through Faith in Christ. Being the substance of several sermons Preached at Rainford, and at some Lectures at Bolton in the Moores in Lancashire, from John xx. 28. By J. B., pastor of the congregation at Rainford. And now Published for Publick Use and Benefit.
J. B. (James Bradshaw), 1636?-1702.Date: 1702- Books
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The sovereignty of the divine administration, vindicated; or, a rational account of our Blessed Saviour's remarkable temptation in the wilderness; The Possessed at Capernaum; The Demoniacs at Gadara, and the Destruction of the Swine: with free remarks upon several other important passages in the New Testament. By the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dixon of Bolton. With a preface, by the Reverend Mr John Seddon of Manchester.
Dixon, Thomas, 1721-1754.Date: [1766]- Books
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The sovereignty of the divine administration, vindicated; or, a rational account of our blessed Saviour's remarkable temptation in the wilderness; The Possessed at Capernaum; The Demoniacs at Gadara, and the Destruction of the Swine: With Free Remarks upon several other Important Passages in the New Testament. By the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dixon of Bolton. With a preface, by the Reverend Mr. John Seddon of Manchester.
Dixon, Thomas, 1721-1754.Date: [1766?]- Books
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A sermon, on the nature and criminality of man's inability to serve the Lord. Delivered at Hardwick, June 15th, MDCCLXXXII. By Josiah Spalding, A.M. Pastor of the church in Uxbridge. Published by desire of a number of the hearers.
Spalding, Josiah, 1751-1823.Date: [1782?]- Books
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War with devils. By the Reverend Isaac Ambrose, Late Minister of the Gospel.
Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.Date: 1797- Books
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War with devils: ministration of, and communion with angels. By Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel.
Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Books
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War with devils; and ministration of, and communion with angels. By Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel in Preston.
Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.Date: M,DCC,XXXVIII. [1738]- Pictures
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A young employee is tempted by a drink offered by his fellow workers. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
Wilson, T. C.Date: 1840Reference: 25943iPart of: The life of a working man- Books
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Four dissertations. I. On eternal punishments. In which the Design of Punishment in general is placed in a new Light. II. On Christ's cursing the fig-tree. In which this Transaction is reconciled with his human and divine Nature. III. On mistranslations in the New-Testament. Instances of which are comprehended under four important Heads. IV. On Christ's temptation. In which both the Suppositions of Satan's personal and visionary Appearance are refuted, and our Saviour's Temptations are shown to have been in manner such as human nature is liable to in general.
Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783.Date: [1769]