Mr. Deceit

"When the power of sin revives, and the heart holds counsel with evil, the craft and subtlety of Satan suggests secrecy—the blinding of the conscience, the bribing of the will, the tampering with the power of the understanding. And the chief agent in this secret process is here rightly named DECEIT. 'The deceived heart' is that which is most likely to be kept in ignorance of the devices of Satan. The period of man’s ignorance is the period of Satan’s progress; the season of the untimely sleep of the servants is the season of the sowing of the tares among the good seed. 'An enemy hath done this!'"[2]