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 second thing to be showed is, the several Devices that Satan h… › Now the remedies against this Device are these that follow.The second thing to be shewed is, the severall Devices that Satan h… › Now the remedies against this Device are these that follow.

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The third Remedy against this device of Satan, is, to dwell upon the hard and difficult things that the Lord Jesus Christ hath past through, for your temporal, spiritual, and eternal good. Ah! what a sea of blood? a sea of wrath? of sin, of sorrow, and misery did the Lord Jesus wade through, for your internal and eternal good? Christ did not plead, this Cross is too heavy for me to bear, this wrath is too great ⟨p. 156⟩for me to lie under, this Cup (which hath in it all the ingredients of divine displeasure) is too bitter for me to sip off, how much more to drink the very dregs of it? no, Christ stands not upon this; he pleads not the difficulty of the service, but resolutely, and bravely wades through all, as the Prophet Isa shows: The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Christ makes nothing of his Fathers wrath, the burden of your sins, the malice¹ of Satan, and the rage of the world, but sweetly and triumphantly passes through all. Ah souls! if this consideration will not raise up your spirits, above all the discouragements that you meet with, to own Christ and his service, and to stick, and cleave to Christ, and his service; I am afraid nothing will. A soul not stirred by this, not raised, and lifted up by this, to be resolute and brave in the service of God, notwithstanding all dangers and difficulties, is a soul left of God to much blindness, and hardness.

The third Remedie against this device of Satan, is, to dwel upon the hard and difficult things that the Lord Jesus Christ hath past through, for your temporall, spirituall, and eternall good. Ah! what a sea of blood? a sea of wrath? of sinne, of sorrow, and misery did the Lord Jesus wade through, for your internal and eternall good? Christ did not plead, this Crosse is too heavy for me to beare, this wrath is too great ⟨p. 156⟩for me to lie under, this Cup (which hath in it all the ingredients of divine displeasure) is too bitter for me to sip off, how much more to drink the very dregs of it? no, Christ stands not upon this; he pleads not the difficulty of the service, but resolutely, and bravely wades through all, as the Prophet Isa shews: The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the haire; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Christ makes nothing of his Fathers wrath, the burden of your sins, the malice

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

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.

The fifth Device that Satan¹ hath to draw souls off from religious services, and to keep souls off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,

The fifth Device that Satan¹ hath to draw soules off from religious services, and to keep soules off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,

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

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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.

The fifth Device that Satan1 hath to draw souls off from religious services, and to keep souls off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,

The fifth Device that Satan1 hath to draw soules off from religious services, and to keep soules off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,

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

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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,

The fifth Device that Satan¹ hath to draw souls off from religious services, and to keep souls off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,

The fifth Device that Satan¹ hath to draw soules off from religious services, and to keep soules off from holy duties, and heavenly performances, is,