The grand device
Now this is the grand device of Satan: to destroy the first work of God in the soul, or at least to hinder its increase, by our expectation of that greater work. It is therefore my present design, first, to point out the several ways by which he endeavors this, and second, to observe how we may turn back these fiery darts of the wicked one (Ephesians 6:16), how we may rise the higher by what he intends as an occasion of our falling.
1771 text
5. Now this is the grand device of Satan, to destroy the first work of God in the soul, or at least, to hinder its increase, by our expectation of that greater work. It is therefore my present design, first, to point out the several ways whereby he endeavours this: and, secondly, to observe how we may retort these fiery darts of the wicked one: how we may rise the higher by what he intends for an occasion of our falling.
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Sermon 42 in the 1771 Works. Second Corinthians 2:11.
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