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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Pietro Candiano, one of the Dukes of Venice, died fighting against the Nauratines, with the weapons in his hands: so a Saint lives fighting, and dies fighting, he stands fighting, and falls fighting, with his spiritual weapons in his hands. But the conflict that is in wicked men is inconstant; now they fall out with sin, and anon they fall in with sin; now 'tis bitter, anon 'tis sweet; now the sinner turns from his sin, and anon he turns to the wallowing in sin, as the swine doth to the wallowing in the mire; one hour you shall have him1 praying against sin, as if he feared it ⟨p. 235⟩more then hell, and the next hour you shall have him pursuing after sin, as if there were no God to punish him, no justice to damn him, no hell to torment him.
Pietro Candiano, one of the Dukes of Venice, died fighting against the Nauratines, with the weapons in his hands: so a Saint lives fighting, and dies fighting, he stands fighting, and falls fighting, with his spirituall weapons in his hands. But the conflict that is in wicked men is inconstant; now they fal out with sin, and anon they fall in with sin; now 'tis bitter, anon 'tis sweet; now the sinner turns from his sin, and anon he turns to the wallowing in sin, as the swine doth to the wallowing in the mire; one hour you shall have him1 praying against sin, as if he feared it ⟨p. 235⟩more then hell, and the next houre you shall have him pursuing after sin, as if there were no God to punish him, no justice to damne him, no hell to torment him.