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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The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder souls from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder soules from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

13. Device.

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BY presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing them; saith Satan, 'tis so hard and difficult a thing to pray as thou shouldst, and to wait on God as thou shouldst, and to walk with God as thou shouldst, and to be lively, warm, and active in the communion of Saints, as thou shouldst, that you were better ten thousand times to neglect them, then to meddle with them; and doubtless by this Device Satan hath, and doth keep off thousands from waiting on God, and from giving to him that service that is due to his name, &c.

BY presenting to the soule the difficulty of performing them; saith Satan, 'tis so hard and difficult a thing to pray as thou shouldst, and to wait on God as thou shouldst, and to walke with God as thou shouldst, and to be lively, warm, and active in the communion of Saints, as thou shouldst, that you were better ten thousand times to neglect them, then to meddle with them; and doubtlesse by this Device Satan hath, and doth keep off thousands from waiting on God, and from giving to him that service that is due to his name, &c.

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder souls from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder soules from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

Now the remedies against this Device are these that follow.

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep soules off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,

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

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

The third Device that Satan1 hath to hinder souls from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

The third Device that Satan1 hath to hinder soules from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

Now the remedies against this Device are these that follow.

The fourth Device that Satan1 hath to keep souls off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,

The fourth Device that Satan1 hath to keep soules off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,

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

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The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder souls from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to hinder soules from holy and heavenly services, from gracious, and religious performances, is,

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep soules off from holy exercises, from religious services, is,