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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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5. Grace will work a mans heart to love, and cleave to the strictest, and h• liest ways and things of God, for their purity and sanctity, in the face of all dangers and hardships; Thy word is very 1pure, therefore thy servant loveth it; others love it, and like it, and follow it, for the credit, the honour, the advantage that they get by it; but I love it for the spiritual beauty and purity of it. So the Psalmist, All this is come upon us, 2yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy Covenant. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons, and covered us with the shadows of death. But temporary grace that will not bear up the soul against all oppositions and discouragements in the ways of God, as is clear by their apostasy in that sixth3 of John, and by the stony grounds falling away, &c.
5. Grace will work a mans heart to love, and cleave to the strictest, and h• liest wayes and things of God, for their purity and sanctity, in the face of all dangers and hardships; Thy word is very 1pure, therefore thy servant loveth it; others love it, and like it, and follow it, for the credit, the honour, the advantage that they get by it; but I love it for the spirituall beauty and purity of it. So the Psalmist, All this is come upon us, 2yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsly in thy Covenant. Our heart is not turned backe, neither have our steps declined from thy way. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons, and covered us with the shadowes of death. But temporary grace that will not beare up the soule against all oppositions and discouragements in the wayes of God, as is cleare by their apostacie in that sixt3