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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8. Saving grace, renewing grace will cause a man to follow the Lord fully in the desertion of all •in, and in the observation of all Gods precepts. Joshua and1 Caleb followed the Lord fully; Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous before God, and walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. The Saints in the Revelation are described by this, that they follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes; but restraining grace, temporary grace cannot enable a man to follow the Lord fully; all that temporary grace can enable a man to do, is to follow the Lord partially, unevenly, and haltingly, as you may see in Jehu, Herod, Judas, and the Scribes and Pharisees, who paid tithe of Mint, and Anise, and Cumming, but omitted the weighty matters of the Law, Judgement, Mercy, and faith, &c.
8. Saving grace, renewing grace wil cause a man to follow the Lord fully in the desertion of all •in, and in the observation of all Gods precepts. Joshua and1 Caleb followed the Lord fully; Zacharias and Elizabeth were righteous before God, and walking in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord blamelesse. The Saints in the Revelation are described by this, that they follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes; but restraining grace, temporary grace cannot enable a man to follow the Lord fully; all that temporary grace can enable a man to do, is to follow the Lord partially, unevenly, and haltingly, as you may see in Jehu, Herod, Iudas, and the Scribes and Pharisees, who paid tithe of Mint, and Anise, and Cumming, but omittted the weighty matters of the Law, Judgement, Mercy, and faith, &c.
- 1Numb. 14. 2. [Greek or Hebrew] hath fulfilled after me; a metaphor taken from a ship under sail, that is strongly carried with the wind, as fearing neither rocks, nor sands. Luke 1. 5, 6. Rev. 14. 4.