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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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PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S Devices.
PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATANS Devices.
2 CORINTH. 2. 11. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his Devices.
IN the fifth Verse, the Apostle shows, that the incestuous person had by his incest, sadded those precious souls that God would not have sadded; souls that walk sinfully are Hazaels to the godly, and draw many sighs and tears from them; Jeremiah weeps in secret for Judah's sins, and Paul cannot speak of those Belly▪ Gods with dry eyes, Phil. 3. 18. ⟨p. 2⟩And Lots righteous soul was burdened,1 vexed, and racked by the filthy Sodomites, 2 Pet. 2. 7, 8. Every sinful Sodomite was a Hazael to his eyes, a Hadadrimmon to his heart; Gracious souls use to mourn for other mens sins as well as their own, and for their souls2