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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this device1 of Satan, is solemnly to consider this, that there is not a greater, nor a clearer argument to prove a man an2 hypocrite, then to be quick-sighted abroad, and blind at home; then to see a mote in another mans eye, and not a beam in his own eye, then to use spectacles to behold other mens sins, rather then looking-glasses to behold his own; then to be always holding his finger upon other mens sores; then to be amplifying, and aggravating other mens sins, and mitigating of his own, &c.
THe first Remedy against this device1 of Satan, is solemnly to consider this, that there is not a greater, nor a clearer argument to prove a man an2 hypocrite, then to be quick-sighted abroad, and blinde at home; then to see a mote in another mans eye, and not a beame in his own eye, then to use spectacles to behold other mens sins, rather then looking-glasses to behold his owne; then to be alwayes holding his finger upon other mens sores; then to be amplifying, and aggravating other mens sins, and mitigating of his own, &c.
- 11. Remepy.
- 2History speaks of a kind of witches, that stirrin abroad would put on their eyes, b•t returning home, they boxed them up again. So do Hypocrites.History speaks of a kinde of witches, that stirrin abroad would put on their eyes, b•t returning home, they boxed them up again. So doe Hypocrites.