What can the devil offer the joyous Christian? Why, if he were to say to him: “I will give thee all the kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof if thou wilt fall down and worship me,” the believer would reply to him: “Fiend, I have more than that. I have perfect contentment; I have absolute delight in God.” The devil will speedily quit such a man as that, for the joy of the Lord is an armor through which he cannot send the dagger of his temptation. Dog won’t eat dog, but men will eat each other
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