Friday, 25 February 2011

A fishing-lesson from one of the Puritans, Thomas Brooks! 'One of Satan's devices to draw the soul into sin is to present the bait and hide the hook; to present the golden cup and hide the poison; to present the sweet and the pleasure but hide from the soul the wrath and misery that will certainly follow. By this device he took our first parents; the hides the hook - the shame, the wrath, and the loss that would certainly follow.'