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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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Thirdly, Satan hath his Devices to destroy the Saints, & one great Device that he hath to destroy the Saints, is,
BY working them first to be strange,1 and then to divide, and then to be bi•er and jealous, and then to bite and devour one another; our own woeful experience is too great a proof of this. The Israelites in Egypt did not more ⟨p. 291⟩vex one another, then Christians in these days have done, which occasioned a deadly consumption to fall upon some.
BY working them first to be strange,1 and then to divide, and then to be bi•er and jealous, and then to bite and devoure one another; our owne wofull experi•nce is too great a proof of this. The Israelites in Aegypt did not more ⟨p. 291⟩vex one another, then Christians in these dayes have done, which occasioned a deadly consumption to fall upon some.
- 1Gal 5. 15. If we knock, we break▪ dissolution is the daughter of dissension.