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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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1. True grace makes all glorious within and without. The Kings daughter is all glorious within, her raiment is of wrought gold. True grace makes the understanding glorious, the will glorious, the affections glorious, it casts a general glory upon all the noble parts of the soul; The Kings daughter is all glorious within: And as it makes the inside glorious, so it makes the out-side glorious; Her clothing is of wrought gold; it makes men look gloriously, and speak gloriously, and walk, and act gloriously: so that vain souls shall be1 forced to say, that these are they that have seen Jesus; as grace is a fire to burn up, and consume the dross, and filth of the soul, so it is an ornament to2 beautify and adorn the soul. True grace makes all new, the inside new, and the out-side new; If any man be in Christ he is a new creature; but temporary grace doth not this. True grace changes the very nature of a man, moral virtue doth only restrain, or chain up the outward man; it doth not change the whole man; a Lion in a ⟨p. 220⟩grate is a Lion still, he is restrained, but not changed; for he retains his Lion-like nature still: so temporary graces restrain many men from this and that wickedness, but it doth not change and turn their hearts from wickedness; but now true grace, that turns a Lion into a Lamb, as you may see in Paul, 3and a notorious strumpet, into a blessed and glorious Penitent, as you may see in Mary Magdalen, &c.4
1. True grace makes all glorious within and without. The Kings daughter is all glorious within, her raiment is of wrought gold. True grace makes the underastanding glorious, the will glorious, the affections glorious, it casts a generall glory upon all the noble parts of the soule; The Kings daughter is all glorious within: And as it makes the inside glorious, so it makes the out-side glorious; Her cloathing is of wrought gold; it makes men looke gloriously, and speak gloriously, and walke, and act gloriously: so that vaine souls shall be1