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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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The third Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, seriously to consider, ⟨p. 37⟩that though God doth not (nor never will) disinherit his people for their sins, yet he hath severely punished his people for their sins. David sins, and God breaks his bones for his sin. Make me to 2hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken, may rejoice. And because thou host do•e this, the Sword shall not depart from thy house, to the day of thy death. Though God will not utterly take from them his loving kindness, nor suffer his faithfulness to fail, nor break his Covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his mouth, yet will he visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes, Psal. 89. 30. 35. The Scripture abounds with instances of this kind; this is so known a truth, among all that know any thing of truth, that to cite more Scriptures to prove it, would be to light a Candle to see the Sun at noon. The Jews have a Proverb, that There is no punishment comes upon Israel, in which there is not one ounce of the Golden Calf: Meaning, that that was so great a sin, as that in every plague God remembered it, that had an influence into every trouble that befell them. Every mans heart may say to him in his sufferings, as the heart of Apollodorus 3in the kettle, I have been the cause of this. God is most angry, when he shows no anger, God keep me from this ⟨p. 38⟩mercy; this kind of mercy is worse then4 all other misery. One writing to a sick friend, hath this expression, I account it a part of unhappiness not to know adversity, I judge you to be miserable, because you have not been miserable. 'Tis mercy that our affliction is not an execution, but a correction; he that hath deserved hanging, may be glad if he scape with a whipping. Gods corrections are our instructions, his lashes our lessons, his