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Spiritual Wisdom Improved Against Temptation

by Matthew Mead

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A practical sermon on Ephesians 5:15-16, teaching believers how to exercise spiritual wisdom in times of temptation. Mead unfolds what it means to "walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise," showing how Christians must discern Satan's strategies, guard against sinful compliance, and redeem the time in evil days. With pastoral urgency, he calls hearers to vigilance — combining doctrinal clarity with actionable counsel for resisting the tempter's snares.
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Table of contents

  1. 01 To the Congregation at Stepney 622 words
  2. 02 To the Ingenuous Reader 634 words
  3. 03 Sermon 7,029 words
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Spiritual Wisdom Improved against Temptation.

In a Sermon Preached at Stepney September 16, 1660. And now made public to obviate misrepresentation.

By Matthew Meade.

(John 18:23) If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if I have spoken well, why do you strike me?
(Psalm 120:2) Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Conscia mens recti famae mendacia ridet.

London, Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Three Crowns in the lower end of Cheapside over against the Great Conduit. 1660.

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