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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 consider, that though they are outwardly poor, yet they are inwardly rich; though they are poor in temporals, yet they are rich in spirituals; the worth and riches of the Saints is inward: The Kings daughter is all glorious within. Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him, saith James. I know thy poverty, but thou art rich, saith John to the Church of Smyrna. What though they have little in possession, yet they have a glorious Kingdom in reversion. Fear not little flock, 'tis your Fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdom. Though Saints have little in hand, yet they have much in hope; you count those happy in a worldly sense, that have much in reversion, though they have but little in possession; and will you count the Saints miserable, because they have little in hand? little in possession? though they have a glorious Kingdom ⟨p. 171⟩in reversion of this. I am sure, the poorest Saint that breaths will not exchange (were it in his power) that which he hath in hope, and in reversion, for the possession of as many worlds, as there be stars in Heaven, or sands in the Sea, &c.
THe first Remedie against this Device1 of Satan, is, to consider, that though they are outwardly poor, yet they are inwardly rich; though they are poor in temporalls, yet they are rich in spiritualls; the worth and riches of the Saints is inward: The Kings daughter is all glorious within. Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heires of the Kingdome, which he hath promised to them that love him, saith James. I know thy poverty, but thou art rich, saith John to the Church of Smyrna. What though they have little in possession, yet they have a glorious Kingdome in reversion. Feare not little flocke, 'tis your Fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdome. Though Saints have little in hand, yet they have much in hope; you count those happy in a worldly sense, that have much in reversion, though they have but little in possession; and wil you count the Saints miserable, because they have little in hand? little in possession? though they have a glorious Kingdome