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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.
Satan is a malicious and envious enemy;1 as his names are, so is he; his ⟨p. 259⟩names are all names of enmity; the Accuser, the Tempter, the Destroyer, the Devourer, the envious Man; and this malice, and envy of his, he shows sometimes by tempting men to such sins as are quite contrary to the temperature of their bodies, as he did Vespasian and Julian, men of sweet and excellent natures to be most bloody murderers; and sometimes he shows his malice, by tempting men to such things as shall bring hi• no honour, nor profit, &c. fall down and worship me, to blasphemy, and Atheism, &c. the thoughts and first motions whereof cause the beart and the flesh to tremble; And sometimes he shows his malice, by tempting them to those sins, which they have not found their natures prone to, and which they abhor in others, &c.
Satan is a malious and envious enemie;1 as his names are, so is he; his ⟨p. 259⟩names are all names of enmity; the Accuser, the Tempter, the Destroyer, the Devourer, the envious Man; and this malice, and envy of his, he shewes sometimes by tempting men to such sins as are quite contrary to the temperature of their bodies, as he did Vespasian and Julian, men of sweet and excellent natures to be most bloody murtherers; and sometimes hee shews his malice, by tempting men to such things as shall bring hi• no honour, nor profit, &c. fall downe and worship mee, to blasphemie, and Atheisme, &c. the thoughts and first motions whereof cause the beart and the flesh to tremble; And sometimes he shewes his malice, by tempting them to those sins, which they have not found their natures prone to, and which they abhor in others, &c.
- 1••metime• he •hewes his malice, by letting those things abide by the soul, as may most vex, and plague the soul, as Gregory observes in his leaving of Jobs wife, which was not out of his forgetfulness, carelessness, or any love, or pity to Job, but to vex, and torment him, &c. and to work him to blaspheme God, despair, and die, &c.