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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 second Remedy against this Device 1of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that the promise of grace and mercy is to returning souls: and therefore though thou art never so wicked, yet if thou wilt return, God will be thine, mercy shall be thine, & pardon thine, &c. 2 Chron. 30. 9. For if you turn again 2unto the Lord, your brethren, and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land; for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn ⟨p. 352⟩away his face from you, if ye return unto him. So Jer. 3. 12. Go, and proclaim 3these words towards the North, and say, return thou back-sliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful saith the Lord, and I will not keep ang[…] for ever. So Joel 2. 13. And rent you• ••rts, and not 4your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. So Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon; or as the Hebrew read• it, he will multiply pardons. So Ezek. 5Chap. 18.