The Devil's trap!

(Thomas Brooks, "A String of Pearls" 1657)

"Then they may come to their senses and escape
 the Devil's trap--having been captured by him
 to do his will." 2 Timothy 2:26

It is the common misery of all the unsaved--that the
devil is their god. His drudges they are, and his lusts
they do. However Satan may provide his slaves with
various pleasures--yet it is but to draw them into
endless perdition. O dreadful case!

The serpent comes with the fruit in his mouth, but,
like Eve--you do not see the deadly sting! He who is
now your tempter--will one day be your tormentor!
O that I could but make you see how bad a master
you serve, how merciless a tyrant you gratify; whose
pleasure is to make your perdition and damnation
sure, and to heat the furnace hotter and hotter in
which you must burn for millions and millions of ages!