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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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The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that God is as just, as he is merciful: as the Scriptures speak him out to be a very merciful God, so they speak him2 out to be a very just God; witness his casting the Angels out of Heaven, and his binding them in chains of darkness, till the judgement of the great day; and witness his turning Adam out of Paradise; his drowning of the old world; and his raining Hell out of Heaven upon Sodom; and witness all the crosses, losses, sicknesses, and diseases that be in the world; and witness Tophet that is prepared of old, witness his treasuring up of wrath, against the day of wrath, unto the revelation of the just judgements of God; but above all, witness the pouring forth of all his wrath upon his bosom Son, when he did bare the sins of his people, and cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken-me?3
The second Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is, solemnly to consider, that God is as just, as he is mercifull: as the Scriptures speak him out to be a very mercifull God, so they speak him2 out to be a very just God; witnesse his casting the Angels out of Heaven, and his binding them in chains of darknesse, till the judgement of the great day; and witnesse his turning Adam out of Paradise; his drowning of the old world; and his raining Hell out of Heaven upon Sodome; and witnesse all the crosses, losses, sicknesses, and diseases that be in the world; and witnesse Tophet that is prepared of old, witnesse his treasuring up of wrath, against the day of wrath, unto the revelation of the just judgements of God; but above all, witnesse the pouring forth of all his wrath upon his bosome Son, when he did bare the sins of his people, and cryed out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken-me?3
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