Satan Tempts with Lawful Things
Satan tempts to evil in licitis‚ in lawful things. It was lawful for Noah to eat the fruit of the grape; but he took too much, and so sinned. Excess turns that which is good into evil. Eating and drinking may turn to intemperance. Industry in one’s calling (when excessive) is covetousness. Satan draws men to an immoderate love of the creature, and then makes them offend in that which they love. As Agrippina poisoned her husband Claudius in that meat he loved most
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Thomas Watson, The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken By Storm (New York: Robert Moore, 1816)