Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

Name: Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653

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Appendix › The fourth Device that Satan hath to keep Christ & a sinner asunder… › The Remedy against this Device of Satans is briefly to consider th…: The Remedy against this Device of Satans is briefly to consider these few things.Appendix › The fourth Device that Satan hath to keep Christ & a sinner asunder… › The Remedie against this Device of Satans is briefly to consider th…: The Remedie against this Device of Satans is briefly to consider these few things.

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[ Earlier:525–540 of 565

:525p. 375¶3

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.

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.

:526p. 375–376¶4

4. His sending his Ambassadors early ⟨p. 376⟩and late to woo and entreat sinners¹ to be reconciled to him, doth with open mouth show his readiness, and willingness to save sinners.

4. His sending his Ambassadors early ⟨p. 376⟩and late to wooe and intreat sinners¹ to be reconciled to him, doth with open mouth shew his readinesse, and willingnesse to save sinners.

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Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

The fifth Device that Satan hath to keep a sinner and Christ asunder, is,

The fifth Device that Satan hath to keepe a sinner and Christ asunder, is,

Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these.

A TABLE Showing the principal things in this Treatise.

A TABLE Shewing the principal things in this Treatise.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36