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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 general Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.
Now the generall Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that an erroneous vain mind is as odious2 to God, as a vicious life; he that had the leprosy in his head, was to be pronounced utterly unclean. Gross errors make the heart foolish, and render the life loose, and the soul light in the eye of God. Error spreads, and frets3 like a Gangrene, and renders the soul a leper in the sight of God. It was Gods heavy and dreadful plague upon the Gentiles, to be given up to a mind void of Judgement, or an injudicious mind, or a mind rejected, disallowed, abhorred of God, or a mind that none have cause to glory in, but rather to be ashamed4 of. I think that in these days God doth punish many mens former wickednesses, by giving them up to soul-ruining errors. Ah Lord! this mercy I humbly beg, that thou wouldest rather take me into thine own hand, and do any thing with me, then to give me up to those sad errors, to which thousands have married their souls, and are in a way of perishing for ever.
THe first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that an erroneous vain mind is as odious