Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Name: Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653

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PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATANS Devices. › Now the general Remedies against this Device of Satan are these th…: Now the general Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATANS Devices. › Now the generall Remedies against this Device of Satan are these th…: Now the generall Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

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The third Remedy against this Device of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that error makes the owner to suffer loss! All the pains and labour that men take, to defend and maintain their errors, to spread abroad, and infect the world with their errors, shall bring no profit, nor no comfort to them in that day, wherein every mans ¹work shall be made manifest, and the fire shall try it, of what sort it is, as the Apostle shows, in that remarkable Scripture, the 1 Cor. 3. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Ah that all those that rise early, and go to bed late, that spend their time, their strength, their spirits, their all, to advance & spread abroad God-dishonouring, and soul undoing opinions, would seriously consider of this, that they shall loose all the pains, cost, and charge, that they have bin or shall be at, for the propagating of error; and if they are ever s•ved, it shall be by fire, as the Apostle there shows. ⟨p. 113⟩Ah sirs! is it nothing to lay out your money for that which is not bread? and your strength for that, which will not, which cannot profit you in the day that you must make up your accounts, and all your works must be tried by fire? Ah! that such souls would now at last, buy the truth, and sell it not; Remember, you can never over buy it; whatsoever you give for it, you can never sufficiently sell it, if you should have all the world in exchange for it. It is said of Caesar, ^*that he had greater care of his Books, then of his royal Robes; for swimming thorough the waters, to escape his enemies, he carried his books in his hand above the waters, but lost his Robes; ah! what are Caesars books to Gods books? well, remember this, that one day, yea, one hour spent in the study of truth, or spreading abroad of truth, will yield the soul more comfort, and profit, then many thousand years spent in the study, and spreading abroad of corrupt and vain opinions, that have their rice from Hell, and not from Heaven; from the God of this world, and not from that God, that shall at last judge this world, and all the corrupt opinions of men.

The third Remedy against this Device of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that error makes the owner to suffer losse! All the paines and labou that men take, to defend and maintain their errours, to spread abroad, and infect the world with their errours, shall bring no profit, nor no comfort to them in that day, wherein every mans

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.

The second thing to be showed is, the several Devices that Satan hath (as to draw souls to sin, so) to keep souls from holy duties, to hinder souls in holy Services, and to keep them off from Religious performances.

The second thing to be shewed is, the severall Devices that Satan hath (as to draw soules to sin, so) to keep soules from holy duties, to hinder soules in holy Services, and to keep them off from Religious performances.

The first device that Satan ¹hath to draw souls from holy duties, and to keep them off from religious services is,

The first device that Satan ¹hath to draw soules from holy duties, and to keep them off from religious services is,

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