Gurnall on Secret Sins

More from The Christian in Complete Armour… Here, William Gurnall describes how Satan argues with us on behalf of our secret sins, hoping that we will cling to them…

Thou mayest keep me and thy credit also; I will not be seen abroad in thy company to shame thee among thy neighbours; shut me up in the most retired room thou hast in thy heart, from the hearing of others, if thou wilt only let me now and then have the wanton embraces of thy thoughts and affections in secret…

Here the valiant swordsmen of the world have showed themselves mere cowards, who have come out of the field with victorious banners, and then lived, yea, died slaves to a base lust at home.