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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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The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, i•, solemnly to consider, that love and unity makes most for your own safety, and security. We shall2 be insuperabiles, if we be inseperabiles, invincible, if we be inseparable. The world may frown upon you, and plot against you, but they cannot hurt you; unity is the best bond of safety, in every Church and Common-wealth. And this did that Scythian King in Plutarch, represent lively to his 80 Sons, when being ready to dye, he commanded a bundle of Arrows fast bound together, to be given to his Sons to break, they all tried to break them, but being bound fast together, they could not, then he ⟨p. 294⟩caused the band to be cut, & then they3 broke them with ease: he applied it thus; My Sons, so long as you keep together, you will be invincible, but if the band of union be broke betwixt you, you will easily be broken in •ieces. Pliny writes of a stone in the Island of Scyrus, that if it be whole, though a large and heavy one, it swims above water, but being broken, it sinks: so long as Saints keep whole, nothing shall sink them, but if they break, they are in danger of sinking and drowning, &c.
The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, i•, solemnly to consider, that love and unity makes most for your own safety, and security. We shall2 be insuperabiles, if we be inseperabiles, invincible, if wee be inseperable. The world may frowne upon you, and plot against you, but they cannot hurt you; unity is the best bond of safety, in every Church and Common-wealth. And this did that Scythian King in Plutark, represent lively to his 80 Sons, when being ready to dye, he commanded a bundle of Arrowes fast bound together, to be given to his Sons to break, they all tried to break them, but being bound fast together, they could not, then he