As, therefore, I said to the great sinner before, let him take heed
lest he presume; I say now to the little sinner, let him take heed
that he do not dissemble: for there is as great an aptness in the
little sinner to dissemble, as there is in the great one. "He that
hideth his sins shall not prosper," be he a sinner little or great;
Prov. xxviii. 13.

Eighthly, Would Jesus Christ have mercy offered, in the first place,
to the biggest sinners? Then this shews the true cause why Satan
makes such head as he doth against him.

The Father and the Holy Spirit are well spoken of by all deluders and
deceived persons; Christ only is the rock of offence. "Behold I lay
in Zion a stumbling-stone and a rock of offence;" Rom. ix. 33. Not
that Satan careth for the Father or the Spirit more than he careth
for the Son, but he can let men alone with their notions of the
Father and the Spirit, for he knows they shall never enjoy the Father
nor the Spirit, if indeed they receive not the merits of the Son.
"He that hath the Son, hath life; he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life," however they may boast themselves of the Father and
the Spirit; 1 John v. 12. Again, "Whosoever transgresseth, and
abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth
in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the Father and the Son;" 2 John
i. 9.

Christ, and Christ only, is he that can make us capable to enjoy God
with life and joy to all eternity. Hence he calls himself the way to
the Father, the true and living way; John xiv. 6; Heb. x. 19, 20; for
we cannot come to the Father but by him. Satan knows this, therefore
he hates him. Deluded persons are ignorant of this, and, therefore,