[Bunyan Characters - Third Series by Alexander Whyte]@TWC D-Link bookBunyan Characters - Third Series CHAPTER XII--THAT VARLET ILL-PAUSE, THE DEVIL'S ORATOR 21/23
You can if you only will.
You can if you only choose.
And smiting down that one sin will loosen and shake down the whole evil fabric of sin.
Breaking but that one link will break the whole of Satan's snare and evil fetter.
Here is A Kempis's forest of vices out of which he hewed down one every year. Restless lust, outward senses, empty phantoms, always longing to get, always sparing to give, careless as to talk, unwilling to sit silent, eager for food, wakeful for news, weary of a good book, quick to anger, easy of offence at my neighbour, and too ready to judge him, too merry over prosperity, and too gloomy, fretful, and peevish in adversity; so often making good rules for my future life, and coming so little speed with them all, and so on.
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