So foul a hag

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There are very many who lie in wait to deceive, corrupt, and 
poison your minds with God-dishonoring, Christ-denying, 
conscience-wasting, and soul-damning opinions, principles, 
and blasphemies. 

I have read of one who boasted and gloried in this, that he 
had spent thirty years in corrupting and poisoning of youth. 
Doubtless, many wretches, many monsters there are among
us, who make it their business, their glory, their all—to delude 
and draw people to those dangerous errors and blasphemies 
which lead to destruction. Error and folly, says one very well, 
are the knots of Satan wherewith he ties children to the stake 
to be burned in hell.

There is a truth in what the tragedian said long since, "poison 
is commonly drunk out of a cup of gold." So is an error soonest 
taken into the judgment and conscience, from people of the 
fairest carriage and smoothest conversations.

Error is so foul a hag, that if it should come in its own 
shape, a man would loathe it, and fly from it as from hell.

If Jezebel had not painted her face, she would not have
gotten so many young doating adulterers to have followed 
her to their own ruin.

Ah! young men, young men—the blessing of the Lord 
upon your serious and diligent perusal of this treatise 
may be a happy means to preserve you from being
ensnared and deluded by those monsters "who 
compass sea and land to make proselytes for hell!"

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