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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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So Micah, Rejoice not against me oh my enemy, when I shall fall, I shall rise; when I shall sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned, &c. or the sad countenance of God, as the Hebrew hath it. This soul had no assurance, for he sits in darkness, and was under the sad countenance of God, and yet had strong faith: As appears in those words, when I fall, I shall arise: when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness, and let this suffice for the first answer.
So Micha, Rejoyce not against me oh my enemie, when I shall fall, I shall rise; when I shall sit in darknesse, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will beare the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned, &c. or the sad countenance of God, as the Hebrew hath it. This soul had no assurance, for he sits in darknesse, and was under the sad countenance of God, and yet had strong faith: As appears in those words, when I fall, I shall arise: when I sit in darknesse, the Lord shall be a light unto me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousnesse, and let this suffice for the first answer.
The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that God in the Scriptures doth define2 faith otherwise; God defines faith to be a ••ceiving of Christ; As many as received ⟨p. 209⟩him, to them he gave this privilege to be 3the sons of God, to as many as believed on his name; to be a cleaving of the soul unto God, though no joy but afflictions attend the soul. Yea, the Lord defines faith to be a coming to God in Christ,