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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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two thousand in one night were embowelled, six thousand were burned in a porch of the Temple, the whole, City was sacked and burnt, and laid level to the ground, and ninety seven thousand taken Captives, and applied to base and miserable service; as E•sebius and Josephus saith: and to thi• day, in all the parts of the world, are they ⟨p. 45⟩not the off-scouring of the world? none less beloved, and non• more abhorred, then they: And so Capernaum, that was lifted up to Heaven, was threatened to be1 thrown down to Hell. No souls fall so low into Hell (if they fall) as those souls, that by a hand of mercy, are lifted up nearest to Heaven; you flight souls that are so apt to abuse mercy, consider this, that in the Gospel days, the plagues that God inflicts upon the despisers, and abusers of mercy, are usually spiritual plagues; as blindness of mind, hardness of heart, benumbedness of conscience, which are ten thousand times worse then the worst of outward plagues that can befall you, and therefore though you may escape temporal Judgements, yet you shall not escape spiritual Judgements: How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? saith the Apostle. Oh! therefore, when ever Satan shall present God to the soul, as one made up all of mercy, that he may draw thee to do wickedly, say unto him, that sins against mercy will bring upon the soul the greatest misery, and therefore, whatever becomes of thee, thou wilt not sin against mercy, &c.
two thousand in one night were imbowelled, six thousand were burned in a porch of the Temple, the whole, City was sacked and burnt, and laid levell to the ground, and ninety seven thousand taken Captives, and applied to base and miserable service; as E•sebius and Josephus saith: and to thi• day, in all the parts of the world, are they ⟨p. 45⟩not the off-scouring of the world? none lesse belov'd, and non• more abhor'd, then they: And so Caparnaum, that was lifted up to Heaven, was threatned to be