It hath pleased the Lord to withdraw from you for a moment, and, for holy ends, to leave you to the buffetings of Satan: but, believe me; believe God himself; he will return with mercy and salvation, and with everlasting loving-kindness he will gather you. What though your sins are great, the merit of the Redeemer’s sacrifice is infinitely greater! what though the cry of them reach even to the heavens, his precious atonement surmounts them all; yea, what although they are of a scarlet or crimson stain, the blood of Jesus shall wash you and make you white as wool, or the whiter snow. Satan is indeed permitted as the accuser of the brethren, to load your conscience with heavy accusations; but yet a very little while, and the base accuser shall be cast down; Satan shall be trampled for ever under your feet.
John Macgowan — John Macgowan, Death: A Vision; or, The Solemn Departure of Saints and Sinners, Represented under the Similitude of a Dream (London: printed for the author, 1766), pp. 39–40
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