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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 EPISTLE Dedicatory. TO HIS Most Dear and Precious Ones, The Sons and Daughters of the most High God, over whom the holy Ghost hath made him a Watchman.
THE EPISTLE Dedicatorie. TO HIS Most Dear and Precious Ones, The Sons and Daughters of the most High God, over whom the holy Ghost hath made him a Watchman.
Beloved in our dearest Lord;
Christ, the Scripture, your own hearts, and Satan's Devices, are the four prime things that should be first and most studied & searched; if any cast off the study of these, ⟨image 3⟩they cannot be safe here, nor happy1 hereafter. 'Tis my work as a Christian, but much more as I am a watchman, to do my best, to discover the fullness of Christ, the emptiness of the creature, and the snares of the great Deceiver; which I have endeavoured to do (in the following discourse) according to that measure of grace, which I have received from the Lord. God once accepted a handful of meal for a sacrifice; and a gripe of Goats hair for an oblation; and I know that you have not so learned the Father, as to despise the day of small things. Beloved, Satan being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from Heaven to hell, from an Angel to a Devil, is so full of malice and envy, that he will leave no means unattempted, whereby he may make all others eternally miserable with himself; he being shut out of Heaven, and shut up under chains of darkness till the judgement of the great day, makes use