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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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His first Device to destroy the1 great, and honourable of the earth, is,
- 11 Device.
BY working them, to make it their business to seek themselves, to seek how to greaten themselves, to raise1 themselves, to enrich themselves, to secure themselves, &c. As you may see in Pharaoh, Ahab, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, ⟨p. 265⟩Absalom, Joab, Haman, &c. But were the Scripture silent, our own experiences do abundantly evidence this way and method of Satan, to destroy the great, and the honourable, to bury their names in the dust, and their souls in Hell, by drawing them wholly to mind themselves, and only to mind themselves, and in all things to mind themselves, and always to mind themselves. All (saith the Apostle) mind 2themselves, all comparatively, in respect of the paucity of others, that let fall their private interests, and drown all self-respects in the glory of God, and the public good, &c.
BY working them, to make it their businesse to seek themselves, to seek how to greaten themselves, to raise1 themselves, to enrich themselves, to secure themselves, &c. As you may see in Pharaoh, Ahab, Rehoboam, Jeroboam,