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… › Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.The third thing to be shewed, is the severall Devices that Satan ha… › Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.

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:275p. 209–210

The fourth Remedy against this device¹ of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, ⟨p. 210⟩that assurance is an effect of faith; therefore it cannot be faith. The cause cannot be the effect, nor the root the fruit; as the effect slows from the cause, the fruit from the root, the stream from the fountain, so doth the assurance flow from faith; this truth I shall make good thus.

The fourth Remedie against this device¹ of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, ⟨p. 210⟩that assurance is an effect of faith; therefore it cannot be faith. The cause cannot be the effect, nor the root the fruit; as the effect slowes from the cause, the fruit from the root, the stream from the fountain, so doth the assurance flow from faith; this truth I shall make good thus.

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:276p. 210

The assurance of our salvation, and pardon of sin doth primarily arise from the witness of the spirit of God, that¹ we are the children of God: And the spirit never witnesseth this, till we are believers; for we are sons by faith in ²Christ Jesus: therefore assurance is not faith, but follows it, as the effect follows the cause.

The assurance of our salvation, and pardon of sin doth primarily arise from the witnesse of the spirit of God, that¹

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to keep the soul in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,

The third Device that Satan¹ hath to keepe the soul in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,

Now the remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep the soul in a sad, doubting, & questioning condition, is,

The fourth Device that Satan¹ hath to keep the soule in a sad, doubting, & questioning condition, is,

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The third Device that Satan1 hath to keep the soul in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,

The third Device that Satan1 hath to keepe the soul in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, is,