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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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The ••ird Remedy against this Devi•• 1of Satan, is, seriously to consider, that the afflictions that do attend the Saints in the ways of holiness, are but short, and momentary; Sorrow may abide for a night, but joy comes in the morning; 2this short storm will end in an everlasting calm; this short night will end in a glorious day, that shall never have end. 'Tis but a very short time between grace and glory, between our title to the Crown, and our wearing the Crown, between our right to the heavenly inheritance, and our possessing of the heavenly inheritance. Fourteen thousand years to the Lord, ⟨p. 97⟩is but as one day, what is our life, but a shadow, a bubble, a flower, a post, a span, a dream, &c. yea, so small a while doth the hand of the Lord rest upon us, that Luther cannot get diminutives enough to extenuate it; for he calls it a very little little cross that we bear. The Prophet in Isaiah 26. 20. (to pikron mikron) saith the indignation doth not (transire) pass, but (pertransire) overpass. The sharpness, shortness, and suddenness of it is set forth by the travel of a woman, John 16. 21. And that is a3 sweet Scripture, For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise: For yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. (Tantillum, tantillum 4adhuc pusillum) A little, little, little while. When Athanasius friends came to bewail him because of his misery and banishment, he said, It is but a little cloud, and will quickly be gone. 'Twill be but as a day before God will give his 5afflicted ones beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness, for the spirit of heaviness; before he will turn all your sighing into singing, all your lamentations, to consolations, your sackcloth into silks, ashes into ointments, and your fasts into