Status Updates From Resista ao Diabo: Um estudo...

I am so thoroughly enjoying this book and trying to find the balance between savoring it and completing it in time to send back with Judah when he leaves on Saturday 😅 it’s SO good, with ways Satan tries to lure us in to sin (“devices”) and things we should consider (“remedies”) to combat them.

"Where one thousand are destroyed by the world's frowns, ten thousand are destroyed by the world's smiles...The honours, splendour & all the glory of this world, are but sweet poisons, that will much endanger us...Tell me, you that say all things under the sun are vanity, if you do really believe what you say, why do you spend more thoughts and time on the world, than you do on Christ, heaven & your immortal souls?"

Device #9:
"By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, reproaches, sorrows, and sufferings that do daily attend those that walk in the ways of holiness."

Remedy #2:
"Socrates said of his enemies, 'They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me.' So afflictions may kill us, but they cannot hurt is; they may take away my life, but they cannot take away my God, my Christ, my crown."

Speaking of using God's mercy as license for sin:

"To argue from mercy to sinful liberty is the devil's logic...this is wickedness at the height, for a man to be very bad, because God is very good. ...To render good for evil is divine, to render good for good is human, to render evil for evil is brutish; but to render evil for good is devilish; and from this evil deliver my soul, O God."

I have a habit of starting books and not continuing them🥲🤦🏽‍♀️.. anyway from what I remember the first 32 pages are good. It’s mildly thought-provoking given it’s a Puritan Paperback, first published in 1652, therefore the English differs from 2025’s (lol….).