A77614:531
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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Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these.
The first Remedy is, seriously to consider,1 that all the Angels in heaven, nor all the men on earth, nor all the Devils in hell cannot tell to the contrary, but that thou mayest be an elect person, a chosen vessel. Thou mayest ⟨p. 378⟩be confident of this, that God never made Satan one of his Privy Council, God never acquainted him with the names or persons of such that he hath set his love upon to eternity, &c.
THe first Remedie is, seriously to consider,1 that all the Angels in heaven, nor all the men on earth, nor all the Devills in hell cannot tell to the contrary, but that thou maist be an elect person, a chosen vessel. Thou mayest ⟨p. 378⟩be confident of this, that God never made Satan one of his Privie Councel, God never acquainted him with the names or persons of such that he hath set his love upon to eternity, &c.
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The second Remedy against this Device