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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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Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan is, solemnly to consider,2 that self-seeking is a sin that will put men upon a world of sin; upon sins not only against the Law of God, the rules of the Gospel, but that are against the very laws of Nature, that are so much darkened by the fall of man; It put the Pharisees upon opposing Christ, and ⟨p. 266⟩Judas upon betraying Christ, and Pilate 3upon condemning Christ. It put Gehezi upon lying, and Balaam upon cursing, and Saul and Absalom upon plotting Davids ruin. It put Pharaoh and Haman upon contriving ways to destroy those Jews, that God did purpose to save by his mighty arm. It puts men upon using wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights. It puts m•n upon ways of oppression, and selling 4the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes, &c. I know not any sin in the world, but this sin of self-seeking will put men upon it, though it be their eternal loss.
THe first Remedie against this Device1 of Satan is, solemnly to consider,2 that selfe-seeking is a sin that will put men upon a world of sin; upon sins not only against the Law of God, the rules of the Gospel, but that are against the very lawes of Nature, that are so much darkned by the fall of man; It put the Pharisees upon opposing Christ, and