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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices
Precious remedies against Satan's devices or, salve for believers and unbelievers sores. Being a companion for those that are in Christ, or out of Christ; that are high, or low, learned, or illiterate, staggering, or wandering; that slight, or neglect ordinances, under a pretence of living above them; that are growing (in spirituals) or decaying; that are tempted, or deserted, afflicted, or opposed; that have assurance, or that want assurance; that are self-seekers, or the common-wealths caterpillars; that are in love sweetly united, or that yet have their spirits too much embittered, &c. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious gospel of Christ, at Margarets fish-street hill.Precious remedies against Satans devices or, salve for believers and unbelievers sores. Being a companion for those that are in Christ, or out of Christ; that are high, or low, learned, or illiterate, staggering, or wandering; that slight, or neglect ordinances, under a pretence of living above them; that are growing (in spiritualls) or decaying; that are tempted, or deserted, afflicted, or opposed; that have assurance, or that want assurance; that are self-seekers, or the common-wealths caterpillars; that are in love sweetly united, or that yet have their spirits too much imbittered, &c. By Thomas Brookes, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious gospel of Christ, at Margarets fish-street hill.
London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653
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Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that all the afflictions that do attend the people of God, are such, as shall turn to the profit, and glorious advantage of the people of God; they shall discover that filthiness and vileness in sin, that yet the soul hath never seen. It was a speech of a Germane ⟨p. 89⟩Divine, in his sickness; In this Disease2 I have learned how great God is, and what the evil of sin is; I never knew to purpose what God was before, nor what sin meant till now. Afflictions are a crystal glass, wherein the soul hath the clearest sight of the ugly face of sin; in this glass the soul comes to see sin to be but a bitter-sweet; yea, in this glass the soul comes to see sin, not only to be an evil, but to be the greatest evil in the world, to be an evil far worse then hell
THe first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that all the afflictions that doe attend the people of God, are such, as shall turne to the profit, and glorious advantage of the people of God; they shall discover that filthinesse and vilenesse in sin, that yet the soul hath never seen. It was a speech of a Germane ⟨p. 89⟩Divine, in his sicknesse; In this Disease2 I have learned how great God is, and what the evill of sin is; I never knew to purpose what God was before, nor what sin meant till now. Afflictions are a christall glasse, wherein the soul hath the clearest sight of the ugly face of sin; in this glasse the soul comes to see sin to be but a bitter-sweet; yea, in this glasse the soul comes to see sin, not only to be an evill, but to be the greatest evill in the world, to be an evill far worse then hel