Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Name: Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653

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[ Earlier:475–490 of 565

:475p. 344§1

Will you be thankful for the escaping the snares that men spread for your lives, or estates, &c? and will you not be much more thankful for escaping those snares that Satan hath laid for your precious souls?

Will you be thankfull for the escaping the snares that men spread for your lives, or estates, &c? and will you not be much more thankfull for escaping those snares that Satan hath laid for your precious souls?

:476p. 344–345§1

Remember this, that deliverance¹ from Satan's snares doth carry with it the clearest, and the greatest evidence of the soul and heart of God to be towards you. Many a man by a common hand of Providence escapes many a snare that man hath laid for him, but yet escapes not the snares that Satan hath laid for him. Saul, and Judas, and Demas, doubtless escaped many snares, that men had laid for them, but none of them escaped the snares that the Devil had laid for them. Many men are ⟨p. 345⟩lifted up above the snares of men, by a common hand of providence, that are left to fall into the snares of the Devil, by a hand of Justice; your deliverance from Satan's snares is a fruit of special love; can you thus look upon it, and not be thankful, oh precious souls? I judge not.

Remember this, that deliverance¹ from Satans snares doth carrie with it the clearest, and the greatest evidence of the soule and heart of God to be towards you. Many a man by a common hand of Providence escapes many a snare that man hath laid for him, but yet escapes not the snares that Satan hath laid for him. Saul, and Iudas, and Demas, doubtlesse escaped many snares, that men had laid for them, but none of them escaped the snares that the Devill had laid for them. Many men are ⟨p. 345⟩

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Now the first Device that Satan hath to keep the soul off from believing in Christ, from closing with Christ, &c. is,

Now the first Device that Satan hath to keep the soule off from believing in Christ, from closing with Christ, &c. is,

Now the remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

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Now the first Device that Satan hath to keep the soul off from believing in Christ, from closing with Christ, &c. is,

Now the first Device that Satan hath to keep the soule off from believing in Christ, from closing with Christ, &c. is,

Now the remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.

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