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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Tell me Saints, is it not a more sweet, comfortable, and delightful thing, to look more upon one another's graces, then upon one another's infirmities? Tell me, what pleasure, what delight, what comfort is there in looking upon the enemies, the wounds, the sores, the sicknesses, the diseases, the nakedness of our friends? Now sin you know, is the souls enemy, the souls wound, the souls sores, the souls sickness, the souls1 disease, the souls nakedness; and ah! what a heart hath that man that loves thus to look? Grace is the choicest flower in all a Christians garden, 'tis the richest Jewell in all his Crown, 'tis his Princely Robes, 'tis the top of Royalty, and therefore must needs be the most pleasing, sweet, and delightful object for a gracious eye to be sixth upon. Sin is darkness, grace is light, sin is hell, grace is Heaven; and what madness is it, to look more at darkness, then at light; more at hell, then at Heaven?2
Tell me Saints, is it not a more sweet, comfortable, and delightfull thing, to look more upon one anothers graces, then upon one anothers infirmities? Tell me, what pleasure, what delight, what comfort is there in looking upon the enemies, the wounds, the sores, the sicknesses, the diseases, the nakednesse of our friends? Now sin you know, is the souls enemy, the souls wound, the souls sores, the souls sicknesse, the souls1 disease, the souls nakednesse; and ah! what a heart hath that man that loves thus to look? Grace is the choicest flower in all a Christians garden, 'tis the richest Jewell in all his Crown, 'tis his Princely Robes, 'tis the top of Royalty, and therefore must needs be the most pleasing, sweet, and delightfull object for a gracious eye to be fixt upon. Sin is darknesse, grace is light, sin is hell, grace is Heaven; and what madnesse is it, to look more at darknesse, then at light; more at hell, then at Heaven?2
- 1Non Gens, sed mens, non Genus sed Genius, Not race, or place, but grace, truly sets forth a m•n.
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