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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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PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATANS Devices. › Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these.
First, Consider that sin is never a whit1 the less filthy, vile, and abominable, by its being coloured and painted with virtues colours. A poisonous Pill is never a whit the less poisonous, because 'tis gilded over with gold; nor a Wolf is never a whit the less a Wolfe, because he hath put on a sheeps-skin; nor the Devil is never a whit the less a Devil, because he appears sometimes like an Angel of light, so neither is sin any whit the less filthy, and abominable, ⟨p. 16⟩by its being painted over with virtues colours.
FIrst, Consider that sin is never a whit1 the lesse filthy, vilde, and abominable, by its being coloured and painted with vertues colours. A poysonous Pill is never a whit the lesse poysonous, because 'tis gilded over with gold; nor a Wolf is never a whit the lesse a Wolfe, because he hath put on a sheeps-skin; nor the Devil is never a whit the lesse a Devil, because he appears somtimes like an Angel of light, so neither is sin any whit the lesse filthy, and abominable, ⟨p. 16⟩by its being painted over with vertues colours.
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