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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, is to consider, that ignorance is the deformity of the soul; As blindness is the deformity of the face, so is ignorance the deformity of the soul; as the want of fleshly eyes spoils the beauty of the face, so the want of spiritual eyes spoils the beauty of the soul. A man without knowledge, is as a work-man without his hands, as a painter without his eyes, as a traveller without his legs, or as a ship without sails, or a bird without Wings, or like a body without a soul.
The second Remedie against this Device1 of Satan, is to consider, that ignorance is the deformity of the soule; As blindnesse is the deformity of the face, so is ignorance the deformity of the soule; as the want of fleshly eyes spoils the beauty of the face, so the want of spirituall eyes spoils the beauty of the soule. A man without knowledg, is as a work-man without his hands, as a painter without his eyes, as a traveller without his legs, or as a ship without sailes, or a bird without Wings, or like a body without a soule.
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The third Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that ignorance makes men the objects of Gods hatred and wrath. It is a people 2that do err in their hearts, and have not known my ways; Wherefore I sware in my wrath, they should never enter into my rest. My people are a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them, will have no mercy on them Christ hath said, that he will come in flaming fire to render vengeance on them that know not God. Ignorance will end in vengeance: When you see a poor blind man here, you do not loath him, nor hate him, but you