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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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Its exceeding usefulness to all sorts, ranks, and conditions of men1 in the world; here you have salve for every sore, and a plaster for every wound, and a Remedy against every disease; especially against those, that tend most to the undoing of souls, and to the ruin of the State, &c.
Its exceeding usefulnesse to all sorts, ranks, and conditions of men1 in the world; here you have salve for every sore, and a plaister for every wound, and a Remedy against every disease; especially against those, that tend most to the undoing of soules, and to the ruine of the State, &c.
- 14. Reason.
I know not of any one, or1 other that have writ of this Subject; all that I have ever seen, ⟨image 6⟩have only touched upon this string, which hath been no small provocation to me, to attempt to do something this way, that others, that have better heads and hearts, may be the more stirred to improve their Talents, in a further discovery of Satan's Devices, and in the making known of such choice Remedies, as may enable the souls of men to triumph over all his plots and stratagems, &c.
I know not of any one, or1 other that have writ of this Subject; all that I have ever seen, ⟨image 6⟩have only toucht upon this string, which hath been no small provocation to me, to attempt to doe something this way, that others, that have better heads and hearts, may be the more stirred to improve their Talents, in a further discovery of Satans Devices, and in the making knowne of such choice Remedies, as may inable the soules of men to triumph over all his plots and stratagems, &c.