[35]. Sermons, p. 45.
[36]. Sermons, p. 253. E. Hicks says, "He, (Jesus,) was tempted in all points as we are. Now how could he be tempted if he had been fixed in a state of perfection in which he could not turn aside. Could you suppose as rational beings that such a being could be tempted? No, not any more than God could be tempted. Perfection is perfection, and cannot be tempted, it is impossible." Here is an evident perversion of the Scriptures; for we nowhere find that Jesus yielded to temptation; and it is a most irrational conclusion, that because there was a tempter he was subject to temptation; and so far from such attempts evincing that he was not perfect and could turn aside; the resistance and reproof of the tempter proves, (and was probably intended to prove,) the very reverse. It is one thing to be tempted, and another to yield to temptation, and E. Hicks could not have forgotten that the authority from which he drew his account of the temptations likewise declares that though Jesus "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Heb. 4. 15. By E. Hicks's erroneous construction of the sentence, he could with equal ease prove the fallibility of the Almighty, for the Scriptures in several places speak of His being tempted by the people.
[37]. Sermons, p. 50.
[38]. New York Sermons, p. 97.
[39]. Luke, chap. 5th.
[40]. Sermons, p. 207.
[41]. Sermons, p. 313.
[42]. 2nd Timothy, Chap. 3d.
[43]. Sermons, page 207.
[44]. Sermons, page 313.