it—“Thou canst _not_ lead us into temptation, _therefore_, deliver us from the evil one.” And how suitable to our desires is that part of the Litany of the Church of England, “From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the Devil, and from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation—_Good Lord deliver us_.” But though it is the work of Satan to tempt, to harrass, to vex, to grieve, and to hurl his darts into the mind; to bring the soul into bondage, to terrify or lull to sleep, to ensnare, or tempt to despair, to fill the mind with legality, or tempt it to real Antinomianism, that is, to sin that grace may abound:—whatever may be his temptations, and whatever his malicious joy, to see a chosen vessel fall either into sin or sorrow of any description, _he_, as a creature, a fallen spirit, the enemy of Jehovah—I say, _he_ has the least reason to rejoice, as _he_ only adds to his own damnation!—_he_ helps to fill up the measure of his own iniquity. Much as the believer has to blame himself for on account of not taking heed to his own ways, yet Satan need not rejoice in his falls, for he only falls to stand more firm, to see native weakness of his own arm, the deceitfulness of his own heart; and as grace is displayed to his soul, he finds the dear Redeemer more precious to his heart, after the inner man; he is made more watchful, more sedate, more careful: he is humbled in the dust before God, and as pardoning mercy lifts him up, so repentance flows forth to his forgiving. God and this repentance is attended with all those excellencies described by the apostle Paul, (2 _Cor._ vii, 11), Carefulness, clearing, indignation, fear, desire, zeal, and revenge on sin and Satan, for the injury they have done him.