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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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Oh! dwell much upon these precious commands, that your love may be1 inflamed one to another. In the primitive times it was much taken notice of by the Heathens, that in the depth of misery, when fathers and mothers forsook their children, Christians (otherwise ⟨p. 296⟩strangers) stuck one to another, whose love of Religion proved firmer then that of nature. Ah! that there were more of that spirit among the Saints in these days. The world was once destroyed with water, for the heat of lusts, and 'tis thought it will be again destroyed with fire, for the coldness of love.
Oh! dwell much upon these precious commands, that your love may be1 inflamed one to another. In the primitive times it was much taken notice of by the Heathens, that in the depth of misery, when fathers and mothers forsook their children, Christians (otherwise ⟨p. 296⟩strangers) stuck one to another, whose love of Religion proved firmer then that of nature. Ah! that there were more of that spirit among the Saints in these dayes. The world was once destroyed with water, for the heat of lusts, and 'tis thought it will be again destroyed with fire, for the coldnesse of love.
- 1The Ancients use to say commonly that Alexander and Ephestion had but one soul in two distinct bodies, because their joy and sorrow, glory, and disgrace was mutual to them both.The Ancients use to say commonly that Alexander and Ephestion had but one soule in two distinct bodies, because their joy and sorrow, glory, and disgrace was mutual to them both.
The fourth Remedy against this Device