Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.

The reality of a future punishment is so clearly impressed on the human mind that even Satan is constrained to won that there is a hell.

The serpent, before he set up preaching universal salvation, was a cunning, beautiful, and happy creature; but now his glory is departed.

[Satan] is a very laborious, unwearied preacher. He has been in the minis try almost six thousand years, and yet his zeal is not in the least abated . . .

[Satan] is a very successful preacher. He draws a great number after him. No preacher can command hearers like him . . . He mixes truth with error, in order to make it go well, or to carry his point.