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On the Use of the Temptations of the Devil.

and grace of my Lord I am powerful enough to withstand you and your temptations. I place my trust in God, whom I shall daily and humbly call upon, acknowledging my weakness with the prophet David: “When my strength shall fail, do not Thou forsake me.”[1] For my part I shall be careful not to run into temptation without necessity, nor to give occasion to it; and when the evil one attacks me with temptations that I cannot avoid, “do not Thou forsake me!” Strengthen my weakness, that the hellish foe may not have to boast that he has stolen my soul out of Thy hands, that I may never again have cause for regret through having offended Thee by mortal sin, and that I may remain faithful to Thy service with joy of heart here on earth, until I shall love Thee forever in heaven. Amen.

Another introduction to the same sermon for the first Sunday in Lent.

Text.

Ut tentaretur a diabolo.—Matt. iv. 1.

“To be tempted by the devil.”

Introduction.

What! and could not even Jesus Christ, the Son of God, be free from the devil? Has that hellish serpent dared to attack his almighty Creator, to appear before the Son of God with temptations to sin? Alas! how will it then be with me? etc. Continues as above.


SIXTY-THIRD SERMON.

ON THE USE OF THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN.

Subject.

The devil with his temptations drives us all the quicker on the road to heaven; therefore we have nothing to fear in this respect, but rather to hope all the more for salvation.—Preached on the feast of SS. Simon and Jude, apostles.

  1. ↑ Cum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me.—Ps. lxx. 9.
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