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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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Then in the seventh place, consider this, that sanctifying grace, renewing grace puts the soul upon spiritual duties, from spiritual and intrinsical motives, as from the sense of divine love, ⟨p. 224⟩that doth constrain the soul to wait on1 God, and to act for God, and the sense of the excellency and sweetness of communion with God, and the choice and precious discoveries that the soul hath formerly had of the beauty and glory of God, whilst it hath been in the service of God. The good looks, the good words, the blessed love-letters, the glorious kisses, and the sweet embraces that gracious souls have had from Christ in his service, do provoke and move them to wait upon him in holy duties; ah but restraining grace, temporal grace that puts men upon religious duties, only from external motives, as the ear of the creature, the eye of the creature, the rewards of the creature, & the keeping up of a name amongst the creatures, and a thousand such like considerations, as you may see in Saul, Jehu, Judas, Demas, and the Scribes and Pharisees, &c.
Then in the seventh place, consider this, that sanctifying grace, renewing grace puts the soule upon spirituall duties, from spirituall and intrinsical motives, as from the sense of divine love, ⟨p. 224⟩that doth constrain the soul to wait on1 God, and to act for God, and the sense of the excellency and sweetness of communion with God, and the choise and precious discoveries that the soule hath formerly had of the beauty and glory of God, whilst it hath been in the service of God. The good looks, the good words, the blessed love-letters, the glorious kisses, and the sweet embraces that gracious soules have had from Christ in his service, do provoke and move them to waite upon him in holy duties; ah but restraining grace, temporall grace that puts men upon religious duties, only from externall motives, as the eare of the creature, the eye of the creature, the rewards of the creature, & the keeping up of a name amongst the creatures, and a thousand such like considerations, as you may see in Saul, Jehu, Judas, Demas, and the Scribes and Pharisees, &c.