“There
is no sin so much like the devil as this for secrecy and subtlety and
appearing in a great many shapes undiscerned and unsuspected, even
appearing as an angel of light. It takes occasion to arise from
everything, it perverts and abuses everything, even the exercises of
real grace and real humility. It is a sin that has, as it were, many
lives. If you kill it, it will live still. If you suppress
it in one shape, it rises in another. If you think it is all gone, it
is there still. Like the coats of an onion, if you pull one form of it
off, there is another underneath. We need therefore to have the greatest
watch imaginable over our hearts and to cry most earnestly to the great
Searcher of hearts for his help. He that trusts his own heart is a
fool.”
Jonathan Edwards, Thoughts on the New England Revival, page 155
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