The devil never would attempt to beget in persons a regard to that divine word which God has given to be the great and standing rule.…Would the spirit of error, in order to deceive men, beget in them a high opinion of the infallible rule, and incline them to think much of it, and be very conversant with it?…The devil has ever shown a mortal spite and hatred towards that holy book the Bible: he has done all in his power to extinguish that light.…He is engaged against the Bible, and hated every word in it.