O long as we live in this world we cannot be without tribulation and temptation. Hence it is written in Job, "The life of man upon earth is a life of temptation." Every one therefore ought to be careful about his temptations, and to watch in prayer, lest the devil find an advantage to deceive him; for he never sleepeth, but goeth about seeking whom he may devour. No man is so perfect and holy, but he hath some temptations, and we cannot be altogether without them. 2. Nevertheless temptations are often profitable though they be troublesome and grievous; for in them a man is humbled, purified, and instructed. All the Saints passed through man's tribulations and temptations, and profited thereby. And they that could not bear temptations, became reprobate, and fell away. There is no order so holy, nor place so secret, but there are temptations, or adversities in it. 3. There is no man that is altogether free from temptations: for the root thereof is in ourselves, who are born with inclination to evil. When one temptation or tribulation goeth away, another cometh; and we shall ever have something to suffer, because we are fallen from the state of our felicity. Many seek to fly temptations, and fall more grievously into them.