Satan’s grand design – Thomas Brooks

Satan’s grand design is not to keep men from going the round of holy duties but to hinder the exercise of grace. All other exercises without the exercise of grace will do a Christian no good. The more grace is exercised the more corruptions will be weakened and mortified. As one bucket in the well rises up, the other goes down; so as grace rises higher and higher, corruptions fall lower and lower. As grace in its exercise grows stronger and stronger so sin will every day grow weaker and weaker.