If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
John NewtonHow many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
John NewtonWe have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.
John Newton