The Providence of God

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. Rom. 7:23

And every believer daily finds it to his grief. Oh it is hard to forbear those things that grieve God! God hath made a hedge about us, and fenced us against sin by his laws; but there is a proneness in nature to break over the hedge, and that against the very resistance of the Spirit of God in us. Now see, in this case, the concurrence and assistance of Providence for the prevention of sin; look, as the Spirit internally resists those sinful inclinations, so Providence externally lays bars and blocks in our way to hinder and prevent sin. And this is the meaning of those places lately citied, Hos. 2:6 and 2 Cor. 12:7. So Job 33 17-19. There is many a bodily distemper inflicted on this very score, to be a clog to prevent sin! O bear them patiently upon this consideration.