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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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'Tis said of Tiberius, that whilst Augustus ruled, he was no ways tainted in his reputation; and that whilst Drusus and Germanicus were alive, he feigned those virtues which he had not, to maintain a good opinion of himself in the hearts of the people; but after he had got himself out of the reach of contradiction, and controlment, there was no fact in which he was not faulty, no crime to which he was not accessary. My prayer shall be, that Tiberius his ⟨p. 268⟩spirit may not be found in any of our Rulers, left it prove their ruin, as it did his; and that where ever it is, it may be detected, loathed, and ejected, that so neither the State, nor souls may be ruined by it, &c.
'Tis said of Tiberius, that whilst Augustus rul'd, he was no wayes tainted in his reputation; and that whilst Drusus and Germanicus were alive, hee feigned those vertues which hee had not, to maintain a good opinion of himselfe in the hearts of the people; but after hee had got himself out of the reach of contradiction, and controulment, there was no fact in which he was not faulty, no crime to which he was not accessary. My prayer shall be, that Tiberius his ⟨p. 268⟩spirit may not be found in any of our Rulers, left it prove their ruine, as it did his; and that where ever it is, it may be detected, loathed, and ejected, that so neither the State, nor soules may be ruin'd by it, &c.
The third Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to dwell upon those dreadful curses, and woes that are from heaven denounced against self-seekers. Woe unto them that join 2house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. So Habakkuk, 3