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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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Your importunity, and the importunity1 of many other precious sons of Zion hath after much striving with God, my own heart, and others, made a conquest of ⟨image 5⟩me and forced me to do that at last, which at first was not a little contrary to my inclination, and resolution, &c.
Your importunity, and the importunity1 of many other precious sons of Zion hath after much striving with God, my own heart, and others, made a conquest of ⟨image 5⟩me and forced me to doe that at last, which at first was not a little contrary to my inclination, and resolution, &c.
- 12. Reason.
The strange opposition that I1 met with from Satan, in the study of this following discourse, hath put an edge upon my spirit, knowing that Satan strives mightily, to keep those things from seeing the light, that tend eminently to shake and break his Kingdom of darkness, and to lift up the Kingdom and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the souls and lives of the children of men, &c.
The strange opposition that I1 met with from Satan, in the study of this following discourse, hath put an edge upon my spirit, knowing that Satan strives mightily, to keep those things from seeing the light, that tend eminently to shake and break his Kingdome of darknesse, and to lift up the Kingdome and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the soules and lives of the children of men, &c.