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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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The fourth Remedy against this device of Satan, is, to look upon all your sins, as charged upon the account of Christ, as debts which the Lord Jesus hath fully satisfied; and indeed were there but one farthing of that debt unpaid, that Christ was engaged to satisfy, it would not have stood with the unspotted justice of God, to have let him come into Heaven, and sit down at his own right hand; but all our debts by his death being discharged, we are freed, and he is exalted to sit down at the right ⟨p. 201⟩hand of his Father, which is the top of his glory, and the greatest pledge of our felicity; For he hath made him to be sin for 1us that knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, saith the Apostle: All our sins were made to meet upon Christ, as that Evangelical Prophet hath it. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all; or as the Hebrew hath it, he hath made the iniquity of us all to meet in him. In Law we know, that all the debts of the Wife are charged upon the Husband; saith the Wife to one, and to another, if2 I owe you any thing, go to my husband; so may a believer say to the Law, and to the justice of God; if I owe you any thing, go to my Christ, who hath undertaken for me; I must not sit down discouraged under the apprehensions of those debts, that Christ to the utmost farthing hath fully satisfied; would it not argue much weakness, I had almost said much madness, for a debtor to sit down discouraged, upon his looking over those debts, that his surety hath readily, freely, and fully satisfied; the sense ⟨p. 202⟩of his great love should engage a man for3 ever to love, and honour his surety, and to bless that hand that hath paid the debt, and crossed the books, &c. but to sit down discouraged when the debt is satisfied, is a sin that bespeaks Repentance, &c.