Device 9 - Satan´s Devices to Draw the Soul to Sin

By presenting to the soul the crosses, the losses, reproaches, sorrows, and sufferings, which daily attend those who walk in the ways of holiness. Says Satan, Do not you see that there are none in the world that are so vexed, afflicted, and tossed, as those who walk more circumspectly and holily than their neighbors? They are a by word at home, and a reproach abroad; their miseries come in upon them like Job´s messengers, on upon the neck of another, and there is no end to their sorrows and troubles. Therefore, says Satan, you were better to walk in ways that are less troublesome, and less afflicted, though they be more sinful; for who but a madman would spend his days in sorrow, vexation, and and affliction, when it may be prevented by walking in the ways that I set before him? P. 53.

Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan Devices, By Thomas Brooks, P. 53.