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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.
Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that an ignorant heart is an evil heart; without knowledge, the mind is not good.2
THe first Remedie against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that an ignorant heart is an evill heart; without knowledge, the minde is not good.2
- 11 Remedy.1 Remedie.
- 2Prov. 19. 2.
As an ignorant heart is a naughty heart, 'tis a heart in the dark, and no1 good can come into a dark heart, but it must pass through the understanding; and if the eye be dark, all the body is dark. A leprous head, and a leprous heart are inseparable companions; ignorant hearts are so evil, that they let fly on all hands, and spare not to spit their ⟨p. 313⟩venom in the very face of God, as Pharaoh did, when thick darkness was upon him.