Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Name: Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653

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The second Device that Satan¹ hath to ensnare, and destroy the great and honourable of the earth, is,

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BY engaging them against the people of the most high, against those that are his jewels, his pleasant portion, the delight of his eye, and the joy of his heart, &c. Thus he drew Pharaoh to engage¹ against the children of Israel, and that was his overthrow. So he engaged² Haman against the Jews, and so brought him to hang upon that gallows that he had made for Mordecai. So he engaged³ those Princes and Presidents against Daniel, which was the utter ruin of them and their relations. So in Revel. 20.⁴ 7, 8, 9. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. And he shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the earth▪ Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: whose number is as the sand of the Sea. And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the Saints about, and the beloved City:

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

The second Device that Satan¹ hath to ensnare, and destroy the great and honourable of the earth, is,

Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.

Secondly, Satan hath his Devices to ensnare and destroy the Learned and the Wise, and that sometimes

Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

The second Device that Satan1 hath to ensnare, and destroy the great and honourable of the earth, is,

Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.

Secondly, Satan hath his Devices to ensnare and destroy the Learned and the Wise, and that sometimes

Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

The author

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The second Device that Satan¹ hath to ensnare, and destroy the great and honourable of the earth, is,