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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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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.
Watchfulness is nothing else but the soul running up and down, too and fro, busy every where; it is the heart busied, and employed with diligent observation of (Quid inde) what comes from within us, and of (Quid unde) what comes from without us, and into us. Ah souls! you are no longer safe and secure, then when you are upon ⟨p. 338⟩your watch; while Antipater kept the watch, Alexander was safe, and while we keep a st••ct watch, we are safe; a watchful soul is a soul upon the wing, a soul out of gun-shot, a soul upon a rock, a soul in a Castle, a soul above the clouds, a soul held fast in everlasting arms.
Watchfulnesse is nothing else but the soul running up and downe, too and fro, busie every where; it is the heart busied, and employed with diligent observation of (Quid inde) what comes from within us, and of (Quid unde) what comes from without us, and into us. Ah soules! you are no longer safe and secure, then when you are upon ⟨p. 338⟩your watch; while Antipater kept the watch, Alexander was safe, and while we keep a st••ct watch, we are safe; a watchful soul is a soule upon the wing, a soule out of gun-shot, a soule upon a rock, a soule in a Castle, a soule above the clouds, a soule held fast in everlasting armes.
I shall conclude this 7th head with this advice: Remember the Dragon is subtle, and bites the Elephants ear, and then sucks his blood, because he knows that to be the only place which the Elephant cannot reach with his trunk to defend; so our enemies are so subtle, that they will bite us, and strike us, where they may most mischief us, and therefore it doth very much concern us to stand always upon our guard.
I shall conclude this 7th head with this advice: Remember the Dragon is subtle, and bites the Elephants ear, and then sucks his blood, because he knows that to be the onely place which the Elephant cannot reach with his trunck to defend; so our enemies are so subtill, that they will bite us, and strike us, where they may most mischiefe us, and therefore it doth very much concerne us to stand alwayes upon our guard.