Many men can give no acount of time, parts, or estates, but they can of hunting, drinking, hawking, or so on. By his art and cunning, Satan makes men transgress proper bounds in the use of pleasures, recreations, nay, even necessary things. Therefore take heed what you do, or how you walk, and be sure to set boundaries to yourselves, remembering that excess may turn that which is good into an absolute evil. Eating may become gluttony; industry in a man's calling may become coveteousness; recreations may become looseness, when they are unbounded and not according to the rule and warrant of the Word.
William Spurstowe, The Wiles of Satan, p. 60-61
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