“One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.”

— Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 391.

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English Puritan 1608–1680

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