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 thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan ha…: The third thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in…The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan ha…: The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in…

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The third thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

1Blessed Bradford in one of his Epistles saith thus; O Lord, sometimes me thinks I feel it so with me, as if there were no difference between my heart and the wicked, I have a blind mind, as they, a stout, stubborn, rebellious, hard heart as they, & so he goes on, &c.Blessed Bradford in one of his Epistles saith thus; O Lord, sometimes me thinks I feel it so with me, as if there were no difference between my heart and the wicked, I have a blind mind, as they, a stout, stubborn, rebellious, hard heart as they, & so hee goes on, &c.

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Though he can never rob a Believer of his Crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted to rob them of their comfort, and peace, to make their life a burden, and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning; surely we have no interest in Christ, our graces are not true, our hopes are the hopes of hypocrites; our confidence is but presumption; our enjoyments are but delusions, &c.

THough he can never rob a Believer of his Crowne, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturn'd, no means unattempted to rob them of their comfort, and peace, to make their life a burden, and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning; surely we have no interest in Christ, our graces are not true, our hopes are the hopes of hypocrites; our confidence is but presumption; our injoyments are but delusions, &c.

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

The third thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

The first Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

The first Device that Satan¹ hath to keepe souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

Now the first Remedy against¹ this device of Satan, is,

Now the first Remedie against¹ this device of Satan, is,

The second Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,

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The third thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.1

The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.1

The first Device that Satan1 hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

The first Device that Satan1 hath to keepe souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

Now the first Remedy against1 this device of Satan, is,

Now the first Remedie against1 this device of Satan, is,

The second Device that Satan1 hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,

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The third thing to be showed, is the several Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition.¹

The first Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

The first Device that Satan¹ hath to keepe souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is,

Now the first Remedy against¹ this device of Satan, is,

Now the first Remedie against¹ this device of Satan, is,

The second Device that Satan¹ hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,