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A77614	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.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4954; Thomason E1426_1	231,671	413

holy and heavenly duties I am afraid if one should rise from the dead his arguments would not win upon you but you would hold on in your sins and neglect his service though you lost your soules for ever c. The fifth Device that Satan 5. Device hath to draw soules off from religious services and to keep soules off from holy duties and heavenly performances is BY presenting to them the paucity and poverty of those that walk in the wayes of God that hold on in religious practices saith Satan do not you see that those that walk in such and such religious wayes are the poorest the John 47 48 49. verses meanest and the most despicable persons in the world this took with them in that seventh of John Then answered the Pharisees are ye also deceived Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees beleeved on him But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow THe first Remedie against this Device 1. Remedy Do you not see saith Chrysostome the places where treasures are hid are rough and over-grown with thorns Do not the naturallists tel you that the mountaines that are big with gold within are bare of grasse without Saints have as Scholars poor commons here because they must study hard to go to heaven of Satan is to consider that though they are outwardly poor yet they are inwardly rich though they are poor in temporalls yet they are rich in spiritualls the worth and riches of the Saints is inward The Kings daughter is all glorious within Hearken my beloved brethren hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heires of the Kingdome which he hath promised to them that love him saith James I know thy poverty but thou art rich saith John to the Church of Smyrna What though they have little in possession yet they have a glorious Kingdome in reversion Feare not little flocke 't is your Fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdome Though Saints have little in hand yet they have much in hope you count those happy in a worldly sense that have much in reversion though they have but little in possession and wil you count the Saints miserable because they have little in hand little in possession though they have a glorious Kingdome in reversion of this I am sure the poorest Saint that breaths wil not exchange were it in his power that which hee hath in hope and in reversion for the possession of as many worlds as there be stars in Heaven or sands in the Sea c. The second Remedie against this device 2. Remedie of Satan is to consider that in all ages God hath had some that have been great rich wise and honourable that have chosen his wayes and cleaved to his service in the face of all difficulties Good Nobles saith one are like black swans and thinly scattered in the firmament of a state even like stars in the first m●gnitude yet some God hath had in al ages as might be shewed out of Histories though not many wise men yet some wise men have and though not many mighty yet some mighty have and though not many noble yet some noble have witnesse Abraham and Jacob and Job and severall Kings and others that the Scriptures speak of and ah how many have we among our selves whose soules have cleaved to the Lord and who have swum to his service through the blood of the slain and who have counted their lives dear unto them that they and others might injoy the holy things of Christ according to the mind and heart of Christ c. The third Remedie against this device 3 Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that the spiritual riches of the poorest Saints do infinitely transcend the temporall riches of all the wicked men in the Alexanders vast mind enquired if there were any more worlds to conquer world their spirituall riches do satisfie them they can sit downe satisfied with the riches of grace that be in Christ without honours and without riches c. He that drinks of that water that I shall give him shall thirst no more The riches of poor Saints are durable they will bed and board with them they Crassus was so rich that he maintained an Army with his own revenues yet he his great Army with his son and heire sell together and left his great estate to others will goe to the Prison to a sick bed to a grave yea to Heaven with them The spirituall riches of poore Saints are as wine to cheer them and as bread to strengthen them and as cloathes to warme them and as Armour to protect them Now all you that know any thing do know that the riches of this world cannot satisfie the soules of men and they are as fading as a flower or as the owners of them are c. The fourth Remedie against this device 4 Remedie is seriously to consider that though the Saints considered comparatively are few though they be a little little flocke a Luke 12. 32. remnant a garden enclosed a spring shut up Cant. 4. 12. a fountaine sealed though they are as the Summer gleanings though they are one of a City and two of a Tribe though they be Ier. 3. 14. but a handfull to a house-full a sparke to a flame a drop to the Ocean yet consider them simply in themselves and so they are an innumerable number that cannot be numbred as John speaketh After this I beheld and lo a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations Rev. 7. 9. and kindred and people and tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lambe cloathed with white robes and palmes in their hands So Matth. speaks And I say Mat. 8. 11. Hebr. 12. 22 23. When Fulgentius saw the Nobility of Rome sit mounted in their bravery it mounted his meditation to the heavenly Jerusalem unto you that many shall come from the East and West and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdome of Heaven So Paul But ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angells To the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in Heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect The fifth Remedie against this device 5 Remedie of Satan is seriously to consider that 't will be but as a day before these poor despised Saints shall shine brighter then the Sun in her glory 't will not be long before you will wish oh that we were now among the poor meane despised ones in the day that God comes to make up his jewells 'T will not be long before these poor few Saints shall be lifted up upon their Thrones to judge the multitude the world

houre to have A pardon given unexpectedly into the hand of a malefactor when he is on the last st●p of the ladder ready to be turn'd off will cause mu●h joy rejoycing the newnesse and suddennesse of the change of his condition will cause his heart to leap and rejoyce yet in proces of time much of his joy will ●e aba●ed tho his li●e be as d●a● to him still as ever it was his night turn'd into day his darknesse turn'd into light his bitter into sweet Gods frownes into smiles his hatred into love his hell into a Heaven must greatly joy and comfort him It cannot but make his heart to leap and dance in him who in one houre shall see Satan accusing him his owne heart condemning him the eternall God frowning upon him the gates of Heaven bar'd against him all the creation standing armed at the least beck of God to execute vengeance on him and the mouth of the infernall pit open to receive him Now in this hour for Christ to come to the amazed soule and say to it I have trod the Win●-presse of my Fathers wrath for thee I have laid down my life a ransome for thee by my blood I have satisfied my Fathers Justice and pacified his anger and procured his love for thee by my blood I have purchased the pardon of thy sins thy freedom from hell and thy right to Heaven c. Oh! how wonderfully will this cause the soule to leap for joy The fifth Remedy against this Device 5 Remedie of Satan is to consider that God will restore and make up the comforts of his people though thy candle be put out Hudson the Martyr deserted at the stake went from under his chain and having prayed earnestly was comforted immediately and suffered valiantly So Mr. Glover when he was within sight of the stake cryed out to his friend he is come he is come meaning the comforter that Christ promised to send yet God will light it againe and make it burn more light then ever though thy sun for the present be clouded yet he that rides upon the clouds shall scatter those clouds and cause the sun to shine and warm thy heart as in form●r dayes as the Psalmist speakes a Ps 71. 20 21. Thou which hast shewed me great and s●re troubles shalt quicken me againe and shalt bring me up againe from the depths of the earth Thou shalt increase my greatnesse and comfort me on every side God takes away a little comfort that he may make room in the soule for a greater degree of comfort This the Prophet Isaiah sweetly shewes b Isa 57. 18. I have seen his wayes and will heale him I will lead him also and rest●re comforts unto him and to his mourners Bear up sweetly oh precious soule thy storme shall end in a calm and thy dark night in a sun-shine day thy mourning shall be turn'd into rejoycing and the waters of consolation shall be sweeter and higher in thy soule then See also the 126 Psal 6. v. and the 42 Psal 7 8. ever the m●rcy is surely thine but the time of giving it is the Lords wait but a lit●le and thou shalt find the Lord comforting thee on every side The seventh Device that Satan hath to keep souls in a doubting and questioning condition is BY suggesting to the soule his often 7 Device relapses into the same sin which formerly he hath pursued with particular sorrow grief shame and tears and prayed complained and resolved against Saith Satan thy heart is not right with God surely thy estate is not good thou dost but flatter thy selfe to think that ever God will eternally owne and embrace such a one as thou art who complainest against sin and yet relapsest into the same sin who with teares and groanes confessest thy sin and yet ever and anon art fallen into the same sin c. I confesse this is a very sad condition for a soule after he hath obtained mercy and pity from the Lord after God hath spoken peace and pardon to him and wip't the tears from his eyes and set him upon his legs to returne to folly ah how doe relapses lay men open to the greatest afflictions and worst A backslider may say opera impensa periit all my paines and charge is lost temptations How doe they make the wound to bleed afresh How doe they darken and cloud former assurances and evidence● for Heaven How doe they put a sword into the hand of conscience to cut and slash the soule They raise such feares terrours horrours and doubts in the soule that the soule cannot be so frequent in duty as formerly nor so fervent in duty as formerly nor so confident in duty as formerly nor so bold familiar and delightfull with God in duty as formerly nor so constant in duty as formerly they give Satan an advantage to triumph over Christ they make the work of repentance mo●e difficult they make a mans life a burden and they render death to be very terrible unto the soule c. Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow THe first Remedie against this device 1 Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that there are many Scriptures that doe clearly evidence a possibility of the St. falling into the same sins whereof they have formerly repented c Hos 14. 4. I will heale their backsliding I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from them saith the Lord by the Prophet Hosea so the Prophet Jeremiah speaks d Ier. 3. 12. 14. Goe and proclaime these words towards the North and say returne thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am mercifull saith the The sin of backsliding is a soul-wounding sin I will heale their backsliding you read of no arms for the back though you doe for the breast Lord and I will not keep anger for ever Turne oh backsliding Israel saith the Lord for I am married unto you And I will take you one of a City and two of a family and I will bring you to Zion So the Psalmist They turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their Fathers they were turned aside like a deceitfull bow And no wonder for tho their repentance be never so sincere and sound yet their graces are but weak and their mortification imperfect in When a souldier bragged too much of a great scar in his forehead Augustus Caesar in whose time Christ was borne asked him if he did not get it when he looked back as he fled this life though by grace they are freed from the dominion of sin and from the damnatory power of every sin and from the love of all sin yet grace doth not free them from the seed of any one sin and therefore 't is possible for a soule to fall againe and againe into the same sin if the fire be not wholly