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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.
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Now the Remedies against this Device of Satan are these.
The first Remedy is, seriously to consider,1 that 'tis the sorest judgement in this world, to be left to sin upon any pretence whatsoever; oh! unhappy man, when God leaveth thee to thy2 self, and doth not resist thee in thy sins; woe, woe to him, at whose sins God doth wink: when God lets the way to Hell be a smooth and pleasant way, that is hell on this side hell, and a dreadful sign of Gods indignation against a man; a token of his rejection, and that God doth not intend good unto him; that is a sad word, Ephraim is joined to Idols, let him alone, he will be uncounsellable, and uncorrigible, he hath made a match with mischief, he shall have his belly-full of it, he falls with open eyes, let him fall at his own peril; and that's a terrible saying, So I gave them up unto their own hearts 3lusts, and they walked in their own counsels. A soul given up to sin▪ is a soul •ipe for hell, a soul posting to destruction. Ah4 Lord! this mercy I humbly beg, that what ever thou givest me up to, thou wilt not give me up to the ways of mine own heart; if thou wilt give me up to be afflicted, or tempted, or reproached, ⟨p. 42⟩&c. I will patiently sit down, and say, 'Tis the Lord, let him do with me what seems good in his own eyes; do any thing with me, lay what burden thou wilt upon me, so thou doest not give me up to the ways of my own heart, &c.
THe first Remedy is, seriously to consider,1