A77614:540
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 eleventh Device that Satan hath ⟨image 202⟩to draw the soul to sin, is, by polluting and defiling the souls and judgments of men with such dangerous errors, that do in their proper tendency tend to carry the souls of men to all looseness, and wickedness, &c. seven Remedies against this Device, from p. 107. to p. 119. The 12. Device that Satan hath to draw the soul to sin, is, to work it to affect wicked company, &c. four Remedies against this Device, from p. 119. to p. 124. Secondly, as Satan hath his several devices to draw souls to sin, so he hath his several devices to keep souls from holy duties, to keep them off from religious services, and they are these that follow. The first Device that Satan hath to draw souls from holy duties, and to keep them off from religious services, is, by presenting the world in such a dress, and in such a garb to the soul, as to ensnare the soul, & to win upon the affections of the soul, he presents the world to them in its ⟨image 202⟩beauty, and bravery, which proves a bewitching sight to a world of men; Eight Remedies against this Device, from p. 124. to p. 141. The second Device that Satan hath to draw souls from the Ordinances, or holy duties, is, by presenting to them the dangers, the losses, and the sufferings that do attend the performance of such, and such religious services; five Remedies against this Device, from p. 141. to p. 152. The third Device that Satan hath to d••w souls from holy duties, and to keep them off from Religious services, is, by presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing them, &c. five Remedies against this device from p. 152. to p. 160. The fourth Device that Satan hath to draw the soul off from holy exercises, from religious exercises, is, by working them to make false inferences, from those blessed and glorious things that Christ hath done, &c. five Remedies against this Device, from p. 160. to p. 169. The fifth Device that Satan hath to ⟨image 203⟩draw souls off from Religious services, and to keep souls off from holy, and heavenly performances, is, by presenting to them the paucity and poverty of those that walk in the ways of God, &c. six Remedies against this Device, from p. 169. to p. 178.