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 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,

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BY working them to make false inferences, from those blessed and glorious things that Christ hath done; As that Jesus Christ hath done all for us; therefore there is nothing for us to do, but to joy, and rejoice, he hath perfectly justified us, and fulfilled the Law, and satisfied divine Justice, and pacified his Fathers wrath, and is gone to Heaven to prepare a place for us, and in the mean time, to intercede for us; and therefore away with praying, and mourning, and hearing, &c. Ah! what a world of Professors hath Satan drawn in these days, from religious services, by working them to make such sad, wild, and strange inferences, from the sweet and excellent things, that the Lord Jesus hath done for his beloved ones.

BY working them to make false inferences, from those blessed and glorious things that Christ hath done; As that Jesus Christ hath done all for us; therefore there is nothing for us to doe, but to joy, and rejoyce, he hath perfectly justified us, and fulfilled the Law, and satisfied divine Justice, and pacified his Fathers wrath, and is gone to Heaven to prepare a place for us, and in the mean time, to intercede for us; and therefore away with praying, and mourning, and hearing, &c. Ah! what a world of Professors hath Satan drawn in these dayes, from religious services, by working them to make such sad, wilde, and strange inferences, from the sweet and excellent things, that the Lord Jesus hath done for his beloved ones.

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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,