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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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2. His divesting himself of his glory in order to sinners salvation, speaks out his willingness to save them; he leaves his Fathers bosom, he puts off his glorious robes, and lays aside his glorious Crown, and bids adieu to his glistering Courtiers the Angels, and all this he doth, that he may accomplish sinners salvation.
2. His divesting himself of his glory in order to sinners salvation, speaks out his willingnesse to save them; he leaves his Fathers bosome, he puts off his glorious robes, and layes aside his glorious Crown, and bids adie• to his glistering Courtiers the Angels, and all this he doth, that hee may accomplish sinners salvation.
3. That sea of sin, that sea of wrath, that sea of trouble, that sea of blood1 that Jesus Christ waded through, that sinners might be pardoned, justified, reconciled, and saved, doth strongly evidence his willingness to save sinners.
3. That sea of sin, that sea of wrath, that sea of trouble, that sea of blood1 that Jesus Christ waded through, that sinners might be pardoned, justified, reconciled, and saved, doth strongly evidence his willingnesse to save sinners.
- 1From the Cradle to the Cross, his whole life was a life of sufferings.From the Cradle to the Crosse, his whole life was a life of sufferings.