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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 fourth Proposition is this.
That no weapons, but spiritual1 weapons will be useful and serviceable to the soul in fighting, and combating with the Devil; this the Apostle shows, Wherefore take unto you (saith2 he) the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. So the same Apostle tells you, that the weapons of your warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to 3the casting down of strong bolds; you have ⟨p. 322⟩not to do with a weak, but with a mighty4 enemy; and therefore you had need look to it, that your weapons are mighty, and that they cannot be, unless they are spiritual; carnal weapons have no might, nor spirit in them towards the making of a conquest upon Satan. 'Twas not Davids sling, nor stone that gave him the honour, & advantage of setting his feet upon Goliath, but his faith in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Thou comest 5to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a shield: but I am come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. He that6 fights against Satan, in the strength of his own resolutions, constitution, or education, will certainly fly and fall before him; Satan will be too hard for such a soul, and lead him captive at his pleasure. The only way to stand, conquer, and triumph, is still to plead, 'tis written, as Christ did. There is no sword, but the two-edged sword of the