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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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that you would make it your business, your work, to mind more, and make sure more to your own souls, the great1 things of eternity, that will yield you joy in life, and peace in death, and a Crown of Righteousness in the day of Christs appearing; And that will lift up your souls above all the beauty, and bravery of this bewitching world; that will raise your feet above other mens heads. When a man comes to be assured of a Crown, a Sceptre, the Royal Robes, &c. he then begins to have low, mean, and contemptible thoughts of those things, that before he highly prized: so will assurance of more, great, and glorious things breed in the soul a holy scorn, and contempt of all these poor, mean things, which the soul before did value above God, Christ, and Heaven, &c.
that you would make it your businesse, your worke, to mind more, and make sure more to your owne soules, the great1 things of eternity, that will yeeld you joy in life, and peace in death, and a Crown of Righteousnesse in the day of Christs appearing; And that will lifte up your soules above all the beauty, and bravery of this bewitching world; that will raise your feet above other mens heads. When a man comes to be assured of a Crown, a Scepter, the Royall Robes, &c. he then begins to have low, mean, and contemptible thoughts of those things, that before he highly prized: so will assurance of more, great, and glorious things breed in the soule a holy scorn, and contempt of all these poore, meane things, which the soule before did value above God, Christ, and Heaven, &c.
- 1When Basil was tempted with money, and preferment; saith he, give me money that may last for ever, and glory that may eternally flourish; for the fashion of this world passeth away, as the waters of a river that runs by a City.
The seventh Remedy against this device ⟨p. 138⟩