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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 fifth Remedy against this Device 1of Satan, is, to consider, that the greater sinner thou art, the dearer thou wil• be to Christ, when he shall behold thee as the travel of his soul. Isa 53. 11.2 He shall see of the travel of his soul, and be satisfied. The dearer we pay for any thing, the dearer that thing is to us; Christ hath paid most, and prayed most, and sighed most, and wept most, and bled most for the greatest sinners, and therefore they are dearer to Christ then others that are less sinful. Rachel was3 dearer to Jacob then Leah, because she cost him more; he obeyed, endured, and suffered more by day and by night for her, then for Leah. Ah sinners! the greatness of your sins does but set off the freeness and riches of Christs grace, and the freeness of his love, this maketh Heaven and Earth to ring of his praise, that he loves those that are most unlovely; that he shows most favour to them that hath sinned most highly against him, as might be showed by several instances in Scripture, as Paul, Mary Magdalene, and others, who sinned more ⟨p. 360⟩against Christ then these? and who had sweeter, and choicer manifestations of divine love and favour then these?
The fifth Remedie against this Device 1of Satan, is, to consider, that the greater sinner thou art, the dearer thou wil• be to Christ, when he shall behold thee as the travel of his soule. Isa 53. 11.2 He shall see of the travell of his soule, and be satisfied. The dearer we pay for any thing, the dearer that thing is to us; Christ hath paid most, and prayed most, and sighed most, and wept most, and bled most for the greatest sinners, and therefore they are dearer to Christ then others that are lesse sinful. Rachel was3