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 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,

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BY causing them to be still poring,¹ and musing upon sin, to mind their sins more then their Saviour, yea, so to mind their sins, as to forget, yea, to neglect their Saviour, that as the Psalmist speaks; The Lord is not in all their thoughts; their eyes are so sixth upon their disease, that they cannot see the Remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts, that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety, &c.

BY causing them to be still poring,¹ and musing upon sinne, to minde their sins more then their Saviour, yea, so to mind their sins, as to forget, yea, to neglect their Saviour, that as the Psalmist speaks; The Lord is not in all their thoughts; their eyes are so fixt upon their disease, that they cannot see the Remedie, though it be neare; and they doe so muse upon their debts, that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety, &c.

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

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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Puritans1,782

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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 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,