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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The formal Act of Repentance is a changing, and converting; 'tis often set forth in Scripture by Turning, Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, saith Ephraim; after that I was turned, I repented, saith he; 'tis a turning from darkness to light.
1. The formall Act of Repentance is a changing, and converting; 'tis often set forth in Scripture by Turning, Turne thou me, and I shall be turned, saith Ephraim; after that I was turned, I repented, saith he; 'tis a turning from darknesse to light.
2. The Subject changed, and converted, is the whole man; 'tis both the sinners heart and life: first his heart, then his life; first his person, then his practice and conversation. Wash ye, make you clean; there's the change of their persons; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do well; there's the change of their practises: So Cast away (saith Ezekiel) all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; there's the change of the life; and make you a new heart, and a new spirit, there's the change of the
2. The Subject changed, and converted, is the whole man; 'tis both the sinners heart and life: first his heart, then his life; first his person, then his practice and conversation. Wash yee, make you cleane; there's the change of their persons; put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to doe evill, learne to do well; there's the change of their practises: So Cast away (saith Ezekiel) all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; there's the change of the life; and make you a new heart, and a new spirit, there's the change of the
3. The Terms of this change, and conversion from which, and to which, both heart and life must be changed from all sin, to God; the heart must be changed from the state and power of sin, the life from the acts of sin, but both unto God, the heart to be under his power in a state of grace, the life to be under his rule, in all new obedience, as the Apostle speaks, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of satan unto God: so the Prophet Isaiah saith, Let the wicked forsake their ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord. Thus much of the nature of Evangelical Repentance. Now souls, tell me whither it be such an easy thing to repent, as Satan doth suggest; besides what hath been spoken, I desire that you will take notice, that Repentance doth include a turning from the most darling sin: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols? Yea, it's a turning from all sin to God.