“Satan with ease puts fallacies upon us by his golden baits, and then he leads us and leaves us in a fool’s paradise.”

“To present the bait and hide the hook; to present the golden cup, and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by yielding to sin, and by hiding from the soul the wrath and the misery that will certainly follow the committing of sin. By this device he took our first parents…here is the bait, the sweet, the pleasure, the profit. Oh, but he hides the hook, the shame, the wrath, and the loss that would certainly follow. Satan with ease puts fallacies upon us by his golden baits, and then he leads us and leaves us in a fool’s paradise. He promises the soul honour, pleasure, profit, but pays with the soul with the greatest contempt, shame and loss that can be. By a golden bait he laboured to catch Christ in Matthew 4. He shows him the beauty and the bravery of a bewitching world, which doubtless would have taken a carnal heart; but here the devil’s fire fell upon wet tinder, and therefore took not.” Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices