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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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Now the remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow.
The first Remedy against this Device 1of Satan, is, to consider, that the greater your sins are, the more you stand in need of a Saviour; the greater your burden is, the more you stand in need of one to help to bear it: the deeper the wound is, the more need there is of the Surgeon; the more dangerous ⟨p. 351⟩the disease is, the more need there is of the Physician. Who but mad men will argue thus; my burden is great, there-I'll not call out for help; my wound is2 deep, therefore I'll not call out for balm; my disease is dangerous, therefore I'll not go to the Physician. Ah! 'tis spiritual •adnesse; 'tis the Devils Logic to argue thus: My sins are great, therefore I'll not go to Christ; I dare not rest nor lean on Christ, &c. whereas the soul should reason thus; the greater my sins are, the more I stand in need of mercy, of pardon, and therefore I will go to Christ, who delights3 in mercy, who pardons sin for his own name sake; who is as able and as4 willing to forgive pounds, as pence, thousands, as hundreds.
THe first Remedie against this Device 1of Satan, is, to consider, that the greater your sinnes are, the more you stand in need of a Saviour; the greater your burthen is, the more you stand in need of one to help to beare it: the deeper the wound is, the more need there is of the Surgeon; the more dangerous