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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 Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this device1 of Satan, is to dwell upon the impotency, and weakness of all these things below; they are not able to secure you from the least evil. They are not able to procure you the least desirable good. The Crown of Gold cannot cure the head-ache; nor the velvet slipper ease the gout; nor the Jewell about the n•ck cannot take away the pain of the teeth. The F•ogs of Egypt entered into the rich mens houses of Egypt, as well as ⟨p. 127⟩the poor; our daily experience doth2 evidence this, that all the honours, and riches, &c. That men enjoy cannot free them from the colic, the fever, or lesser diseases. Nay, that which may seem most strange is, that a great deal of wealth cannot keep men from falling into extreme poverty. In the first of Judges 6. ver. you shall find seventy Kings with their fingers and toes cut off, glad like whelps to lick up crumbs under another Kings table; and shortly after, the same King that brought them to this penury, is reduced to the same poverty and misery; Why then should that be a bar to keep thee out of Heaven, that cannot give thee the least ease on earth?
THe first Remedy against this device1 of Satan, is to dwell upon the impotency, and weakness of all these things below; they are not able to secure you from the least evill. They are not able to procure you the least desirable good. The Crown of Gold cannot cure the head-ach; nor the velvet slipper ease the gout; nor the Jewell about the nck cannot take away the paine of the teeth. The Fogs of Egypt entered into the rich mens houses of Egypt, as well as