TEMPTATION
The Trojan horseThere are 'Jebusites' in every Christian heart!
We must hew our Agags to pieces!
They put the nickels and the pennies in the collection plate!
A bird that is tied by a string
A few, easy, or gentle strokes!
The situation in which she died is instructive:
Christ's presence--and sin's presence
We get entangled with some idol
Be thankful, my dear, that he treats you as his enemy!
Nibbling at Satan's golden baits!
They could burn--but they could not turn!
The temptation, and the opportunity
Buffeted by Satan's temptations
You shall not commit adultery!
Then she pounded the tent peg through his head!
The most subtle, stubborn, and tenacious foe
Who can come out of the battle alive?
The old serpent is almost sure to be lurking in our path!
It is never safe to make pets of tigers!
They want to keep just as near to Sodom as possible!
No wonder if Satan get into the saddle!
This wretched state of sin and temptation
It pierces and winds itself into every corner and chink
Lest Madam Bubble bewitch them with her vile suggestions
The sword which wounds the red dragon!
Like a ball and chain around his ankle!
Be acquainted with the whole range of sensual desires
They play with fire--and wonder why they are burned!
Not whom he may bite--but devour!
It would make him pull his hat over his eyes!
Nibbling at Satan's golden baits!
First she looked--and then she lusted!
Linked together with adamantine chains!
The cockatrice must be crushed
If this cockatrice is not crushed in the egg!
Tempting, seductive, dangerous and ruinous
This lion of hell is ever hunting after his prey!
But who is our greatest enemy?
Lord, I feel my own utter helplessness!
Have you not brought this on yourselves?
This is the very knife that cut the throat of your child!
Painted pleasures, sugared poisons, envenomed baits
Soul-killing plots, devices, stratagems & machinations!
Were we left wholly in its hands!
The poor creature went on eating the cheese!
A man too big for temptations to conquer!
The way to escape from the power of sin.
What a battlefield is the heart
Such a perpetual and unceasing conflict?
Save me, and I shall be saved!
What are all the gilded toys of time?
Under the influence of strong temptation
We have wolves in our own hearts!
Looking for some victim to devour!
What a treacherous foe dwells in our bosom!
The slippery and insidious nature of vice
An apple in exchange for a paradise!
It will come in at every chink and crevice!
Can they beat back this monster to his filthy den?
Friend, can you understand my riddle?
The sins and slips of the saints?
The faults of great men
Avoid light, trifling professors of religion!The slimy trail and the deadly venom of the serpent!
Eternity with all its magnitudes
Inbred sin?This wily devil
The tyrant of the soul?Every kind of sin
We resolve that the murderers shall die!
Avoid light, trifling professors of religion
Self-reliance?
The way to escape from the power of sin.The strong man sinks down into a babe!
Watch!
The path of spiritual declension
The more secret and delusive lusts?
Spiritual Joy!We shall always find him at Church!
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