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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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Fourthly, True grace makes a man most careful, and most fearful of his own heart; it makes him most studious about his own heart, informing that, examining that, and1 watching over that; but temporary grace, moral virtues, make men more mindful, and careful of others to instruct them, and counsel them, and stir up them, and watch over them, &c. which doth with open mouth demonstrate, that their graces are not saving, ⟨p. 222⟩and peculiar to Saints; but that they are temporary, and no more then what Judas, Demas, and the Pharisees had, &c.
Fourthly, True grace makes a man most carefull, and most fearfull of his owne heart; it makes him most studious about his owne heart, informing that, examining that, and1 watching over that; but temporary grace, morall vertues, make men more mindfull, and carefull of others to instruct them, and counsell them, and stir up them, and watch over them, &c. which doth with open mouth demonstrate, that their graces are not saving, ⟨p. 222⟩and peculiar to Saints; but that they are temporary, and no more then what Judus, Demas, and the Pharisees had, &c.
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