the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites, Sirach 18:30.
Self, will mix too often with the most religious things, which produces nothing but divisions, disorders, and, as it is now in our days, many outward forms of our own invention, nay at last a new sort of popery.
O Lord! heal thou the breaches of Zion. Even well-meaning people, not denying their own will, and not taking advice from more experienced Christians, who understand the devices of Satan, better, may be sifted and lifted up by the enemy, that they must be made humble and wise at the expense of some misfortune or other.
I hate the tempter and his charms,
I hate his flattering breath.
The serpent takes a thousand forms,
To cheat our souls to death.
Ye sons of God, oppose his rage,
Resist, and he’ll be gone.
Thus did our dearest Lord engage,
And vanquish him, alone.
Now he appears almost divine,
Like innocence and love,
But the old serpent lurks within,
When he assumes the dove.
Fly from the false deceiver’s tongue,
Ye sons of Adam, fly,
Our parents found the snare too strong,
Nor should the children try.
