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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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The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is seriously to consider, that God hath no where engaged himself by any particular promise, that souls converted and united to Christ, shall not fall again and again into the same sins after conversion. I cannot find in the whole Book of God, where he2 hath promised any such strength or power against this or that particular sin, as that the soul shall be for ever (in this life) put out of a possibility of falling again and again into the same sins; and where God hath not a mouth to s•eak, I must not have a heart to believe. God will graciously pardon those sins to his people, that he will not in this life effectually subdue in his people. I would go far to speak with that soul that can show a promise, that when our ⟨p. 248⟩sorrow and grief hath been so great, or so much, for this or that sin, that then God will preserve us from ever falling into the same sin; the sight of such a promise would be as life from the dead, to many a precious soul, who desires nothing more then to keep close to Christ, and fears nothing more then backsliding from Christ.
The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is seriously to consider, that God hath no where ingaged himselfe by any particular promise, that soules converted and united to Christ, shall not fall againe and againe into the same sins after conversion. I cannot find in the whole Book of God, where he2 hath promised any such strength or power against this or that particular sin, as that the soule shall be for ever (in this life) put out of a possibility of falling againe and againe into the same sins; and where God hath not a mouth to s•eak, I must not have a heart to believe. God will graciously pardon those sins to his people, that he will not in this life effectually subdue in his people. I would goe far to speak with that soule that can shew a promise, that when our ⟨p. 248⟩