THE ARTFUL OLD DEVIL  - by Spurgeon

The King has one more Move!

He is a greater scholar than you, and a nimbler disputant. He can transform himself into an angel of light to deceive. He will get in you and trip your heels before you are aware; he will play the juggler with you undiscerned, and cheat you of your faith or innocency, and you shall not know that you

have lost it; nay, he will make you think it is multiplied or increased when it is lost. You shall see neither hook nor line, much less the subtle angler himself while he is offering you his bait.

And his baits shall be so fitted to your temper and disposition that he will be sure to find advantages

within you, and make your own principles and inclinations to betray you; and whenever he ruineth

you, he will make you the instrument of your own ruin. Oh, do not so far gratify Satan; do not make him so much sport; suffer him not to use you as the Philistines did Samson, first to deprive you of your strength, and then to put out your eyes, and so to make you the matter of his triumph and derision.

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Spurgeon