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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.
1. It signifies such snares as are laid behind one, such treacheries as come upon ones back at unawares. It notes the methods, or way-layings of that old subtle Serpent, who, like Pans adder in the path, biteth the heels of passengers, and thereby transfuseth his venom to the head and heart; the word signifies an ambushment, or stratagem of War, whereby the enemy sets upon a man ex ins•diis, at unawares.
1. It signifies such snares as are laid behind one, such treacheries as come upon ones back at unawares. It notes the methods, or way-layings of that old subtile Serpent, who, like Pans adder in the path, biteth the heels of passengers, and thereby transfuseth his venome to the head and heart; the word signifies an ambushment, or stratagem of War, whereby the enemy sets upon a man ex ins•diis, at unawares.
2. It signifies such snares as are set to1 catch one in ones road; a man walks in his road, and thinks not of it, on the sudden he is Catched by thieves, or falls into a pit, &c.
2. It signifies such snares as are set to1 catch one in ones road; a man walks in his road, and thinks not of it, on the sudden he is Catcht by thieves, or falls into a pit, &c.
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