bewildering, intoxicating influence;
by every well-planned artifice and snare;
by every worldly 'attraction to his side;
by every perversion of fact, and distortion of fancy;
by inflaming the worst and, basest passions of the human heart,
the Devil seeks to win men over to the support of his contention, that the government of God and Christ is partial and unjust, tyrannical in laying upon men laws which they cannot keep, and unmerciful in executing them.
On the other hand, Christ, by a display of love and mercy unsounded in its depth, unmeasured in its height, unspanned in its length and breadth; 
by a scheme to rescue the perishing, before which the heavenly hosts bow in admiration;
by a condescension to meet man's low estate, at sight of which the hearts of angels thrill — with wonder; by the manifestation of feelings of unutterable pity for the woes' into which the Devil has plunged mankind;
by the provisions he makes for their necessities in their helplessness,— sight for their blindness, strength for their weakness, righteousness for their sinfulness, life for their death, by all these things which show that the compassion of Heaven is infinite,
Christ holds up before the world a picture of the divine heart, before which Satan's most artful devices of deception fall into irremediable collapse."
Uriah Smith
