The only thing that can give rest, once and forever, to a guilty sinner is a personal contact with the Lord Jesus Christ: and accordingly He is the object, and the only object, presented to a sin-burdened soul: He says, "Come unto Me.”
If by any means Satan can keep the soul away from this great Savior, his end is served, and the soul continues burdened, deceived.
It makes little difference what is employed as the separating thing. It may be the world in the form of its riches, its pleasures, its amusements, its science, its learning, its literature, or its lawful occupations. He makes use of religiousness and what is termed "the means of grace.”
He may put the study of theology and even that of the Bible itself, the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, between the soul and its salvation, it matters not what, if so be he can keep up some separating medium between Christ and the sinner. His end is accomplished, if the separation is kept up.
None but God could love sinners as God does. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, and to give rest to conscience, mind and heart. May the reader know the joy and gladness of trusting Him fully.