Satan presents to us the best men’s sins, and hides from us their virtues; he shows us their sins and hides from us their sorrows and repentance. El Diablo sets before us the adultery of David, the pride of Hezekiah, the impatience of Job, the drunkenness of Noah, the blasphemy of Peter, etc., and then hides from us the tears, the sighs, the groans, the meltings, the humblings, and repentings of these men of God.

From the power, malice, and skill of Satan–proceeds all the soul-killing plots, devices, stratagems and machinations, which are in the world. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians. In this podcast, Rich and Doug examine his strategy to draw us into destruction by presenting us ‘the bait’ while hiding ‘the hook’