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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 fourth Remedy against this Device1 of Satan, is seriously to consider, that though Gods general mercy be over ⟨p. 46⟩all his works, yet his special mercy2 is confined to those that are divinely qualified; so in Exod. 34. 6, 7. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 20. 6. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments, Psal. 25. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth: unto such as keep his Covenant, and his Testimonies, Psal. 32. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about, Psal. 33. 18. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. Psal. 103. 11. For as the Heaven is high above the earth: so great is his mercy to as hard them that fear him. Ver. 17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting, to everlasting, upon them that fear him. When Satan attempts to draw thee to sin, by presenting God as a God all made up of mercy; oh! then reply, that tho Gods general mercy extends to all the works of his hand; yet his special mercy is confined to them that are divinely qualified, to them that love h•m, and keep his Commandments, to ⟨p. 47⟩them that trust in him, that by hope hang upon him, and that fear him, and that thou must be such a one here, or else thou canst never be happy hereafter; thou must partake of his special mercy, or else eternally perish in everlasting misery, notwithstanding Gods general mercy.