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Who is the undertaker that digs man a grave? Who is the painted temptress that steals hisvirtue? Who is the murderess that destroys his life? Who is the sorceress that first deceives andthen damns his soul? Sin.“Who, with icy breath, blights the fair blossom of youth? Who breaks the hearts of parents? Whobrings old men with sorrow to the grave? Sin. Who, by a more hideous metamorphosis thanOvid ever fancied, changes gentle children into vipers, tender mothers into monsters, and theirfathers into worse than Herods, the murderers of their own innocents? Sin. Who casts the painof discord on household hearts? Who lights the torch of war and bears it blazing over tremblinglands? Who, by division in the church, rends Christ’s seamless robe? Sin.“Who is the Delilah that sings the Nazarite asleep and delivers up the strength of God into thehands of the uncircumcised? Who, winning smiles on her face, honeyed flattery on her tongue,stands in the door to offer the sacred rites of hospitality, and when suspicion sleeps,treacherously pierces our temples with a nail? What fair siren is this, who, seated on a rock bythe deadly pool, smiles to deceive, sings to allure, kisses to betray, and flings her arm aroundour neck to leap with us into hell? Sin.“Who turns the soft and gentlest hearts to stone? Who hurls reason from her lofty throne, andimpels sinners, like the Gadarene swine, down the precipice into the lake of fire? Sin.

Who is the undertaker that digs man a grave? Who is the painted temptress that steals hisvirtue? Who is the murderess that destroys his life? Who is the sorceress that first deceives andthen damns his soul? Sin.“Who, with icy breath, blights the fair blossom of youth? Who breaks the hearts of parents? Whobrings old men […]