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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

13. he doth God service And these things will they doe unto you because they have not known the Father nor me Paul thankes his ignorance for all his cruelties to Christians I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercie because I did it ignorantly 't was ignorance that put the Jewes upon crucifying Christ Eather forgive them saith Christ of his murtherers for they know 1 Co● 2. 8. not what they doe for if the Princes of this world had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory Sinne at the first was the cause of ignorance but now ignorance is the cause of all sin swearing They did like Oedipus who killed his father Laius K. of Thebes and thought he killed his enemy and lying and killing and stealing whoring abound saith the Prophet because there is no knowledg of God in the Land There are none so frequent and so impudent in the wayes of sin as ignorant soules they care not nor mind not what they do nor what they say against God Christ Heaven holinesse and their own soules Our tongues Hosea 4. 1 2. Psal 73. 8 9. are our owne who shall controule us They are corrupt and speake wickedly concerning oppression they speake loftily They set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth Have all the Psal 14. 4. workers of iniquity no knowledge who eate up my people as they eate bread and call not upon the Lord. And now to prevent Objections I shall lay down some Propositions or Conclusions concerning Satan and his Devices and then give you the Reasons of the Point and so come to make some Use and Application of the whole to our selves The first Proposition or Conclusion I shall lay downe is this THat though Satan hath his Devices 1 Proposition to draw soules to sin yet we must be carefull that we do not lay all our temptations upon Satan that we doe not wrong the Devill and father that upon him that is to be fathered upon our own base hearts I thinke that oftentimes men charge that upon the Devill that is to be charged upon their own hearts And the Lord said unto the Gen. 3. 13. woman VVhat is this that thou hast done and the woman said the Serpent beguiled me and I did eate Sin and shifting came into the world together This is no small basenesse of our hearts that they will be naught I very naught and yet will father that naughtinesse upon Satan Man hath an evill root within him that were there no Devil to tempt him nor no wicked men in the world to entice him yet that root of bitternesse that cursed sinfull nature that is in him would draw him to sin though he knows before hand that the wages of sinne is eternall death For out of the heart proceed evill thoughts murders adulteries Rom. 6. ult Mat. 5. 19. fornications thefts false witnesses blasphemies The whole frame of man is Cum primum nascimur in omnt continuo pravitate versamur we are no sooner borne then buried in a bog of wickednesse Tully out of frame the understanding is dark the will crosse the memory slippery the affections crooked the conscience corrupted the tongue poisoned and the heart wholly evill only evill and continually evill Should God chaine vp Satan and give him no liberty to tempt or entice the sons of men to vanity and folly yet they would not yet they could not but sin against him by reason of that cursed nature that is in them that will still be a provoking Iude 15 16. them to those sins that will provoke and stir up the anger and wrath of God against them Satan hath only a perswading sleight not an enforcing might he may tempt us but without our selves he cannot conquer us hee Iames 1. 4. may entice us but without our selves he cannot hurt us our hearts carries the greatest stroak in every sin Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fire is our wood though it be the Devills flame Nazianzen can never undoe a man without himselfe but a man may easily undo himselfe without Satan Satan can onely present the golden cup but he hath no power to force us to drinke the poyson that is in the cup he can only present to us the glory of the world he cannot force us to fall down and worship him to enjoy the world he can only spread his snares he hath no power to force us to walke in the mid'd of his snares therefore do the Devill so much right as not to excuse your selves by your accusing him and laying that load upon him that you should lay upon your owne hearts The second Proposition is this 2 Proposition That Satan hath a great hand and stroak in most sinnes 'T was Satan that Gen. 3. 1. 4 5. tempted our first Parents to Rebellion 'T was Satan that provoked David to 1 Chron. 21. 1. number the people 'T was Satan that put Peter upon rebuking Christ therefore saith Christ Get thee behind me Satan Mat. 16. 22 23. 'T was Satan that put Cain upon murdering of righteous Abel therefore 't is that he is called a murderer from Iohn 8. 44. the beginning 'T was Satan that put treason into the heart of Judas against Christ And supper being ended the Devill Iohn 13. 2. having put it into the heart of Iudas Iscatiot Simons son to betray him 'T was Satan that pu● Ananias upon lying Peter said Acts 5. 3. Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy Ghost As the hand of Ioab was in the tale of the woman of Tekoah so Satans hand is usually in all the sins that men commit such is Satans malice against God and his envy Diaholus tendat deus orobat Tertul. against man that he will have a hand one way or another in all their finnes though ke knows that all the sins that he provokes others to shall be charged upon him to his greater woe and eternall torment Ambrose brings in the Devill boasting against Christ and chalenging Judas as his owne hee is not thine Lord Jesus hee is mine his thoughts beat for me he eats with thee but is fed by me he takes bread from thee but money from me he drinks wine with thee and sells thy blood to me such is his malice against Christ and his wrath and rage against man that he wil take all advantages to draw men to that that may give him advantage to triumph over Christ and mens soules for ever The third Proposition is this That Satan must have a double leave 3 Proposition before he can do any thing against us he must have leave from God and leave from our selves before he can act any thing against our happinesse he must have his commission from God as you may see in the example of Iob though Iob 1. 11 12. Chap. 2 v

subdued and destroyed After Julius Caesar was murdered Antonius brought forth his coat all bloody and cut and laid it before the people saying look here you have your Emperours coat thus bloody and torne whereupon the people were presently in an uproar and cryed out to slay those murderers and they tooke their tables and stooles that were in the place and set them on fire and ran to the houses of them that had slam Caesar and burnt them so when we consider that sin hath slaine our Lord Jesus ah how should it provoke our hearts to be revenged on sin that hath murdered the Lord of Glory and Nolo vivere sine vulnere cum te video vulneratum Oh my God! as long as I see thy wounds I will never live without wound saith Bonaventure hath done that mischief that all the Devills in Hell could never have done 'T was good counsell one gave never let goe out of your mindes the thoughts of a crucified Christ let these be meat and drinke unto you let them be your sweetnesse and consolation your honey and your desire your reading and your meditation your life death and resurrection The third device that Satan hath to 3. Device draw the soul to sin is by extenuating and lessening of sin ah saith Satan 't is but a little pride a little worldlinesse a little uncleanness a little drunkennesse c. As Lot said of Zoar Gen. 19. 20. it is but a little one and my soule shall live ahlas saith Satan 't is but a very little sin that you stick so at you may commit it without any danger to your soule 't is but a little one you may commit it and yet your soul shall live Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these FIrst solemnly consider that those 1. Remedy sins which we are apt to account small hath brought upon men the greatest wrath of God as the eating of an Apple gathering a few sticks on the Sabbaoth day and touching of the Ark oh the dreadfull wrath that these sinnes brought down upon the Draco the Rigid Law-giver being asked why when sins were not equall he appointed death to all Answered he knew that sins were not all equall but he knew the least deserved death So though the sins of men he not all equall yet the least of them deserves eternall death heads and hearts of men the least sin is contrary to the Law of God the nature of God the being of God and the glory of God and therefore t is often punished severely by God and doe not we see daily the vengeance of the Almighty falling upon the bodies names estates Families and soules of men for those sins that are but little ones in their eyes Surely if we are not utterly left of God and blinded by Satan we cannot but see it Oh! therefore when Satan saies t is but a little one doe thou say oh but those sins that thou callest little are such that will cause God to raine Hell out of Heaven upon sinners as he did upon the Sodomites The second Remedy against this device 2. Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider that the giving way to a lesse sin makes way for the committing of a greater he that to avoide a greater sin will yeild to a lesser ten thousand to one but God in Justice will leave that soule to fall into a greater if we commit one sin to avoid another 't is just we should avoid neither we having not law nor power in our own hands to keep off sin as we pleas and we by yeilding to the Psal 137. ver 9. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Hugho's Glosse is pious c. Sit nihil in te Babylonicum Let there be nothing in thee of Babylon no● onely the grown men but the little ones must be dashed against the stones not onely great sins but little sins must be killed or they will kill the soul for ever lesser doe tempt the tempter to tempt us to the greater Sin is of an incroaching nature it creeps on the soule by degrees step by step till it hath the soule to the very height of sin David gives way to his wandring eye and this led him to those foule sins that caused God to breake his bones and to turne his day into night and to leave his soule in great darknesse Jocab and Peter and other Saints have found this true by wofull experience that the yeelding to a lesser sin hath been the ushering in of a greater the little thief will open the doore and make way for the greater and the little wedge knock't in will make way for the greater Satan will first draw thee to sit with the drunkard and then to sip with the drunkard and then at last to be drunke with the drunkard he will first draw thee to be unclean in thy thoughts and then to be unclean in thy looks and then to be unclean in thy words and at last to be unclean in thy practises he will fi●st draw thee to looke on the golden wedge and then to like the golden wedge and then to handle the golden wedge and then at last by wicked wayes to gaine the golden wedge though thou runnest the hazard of loosing God and thy soul An Italian having found his enemy at an advantage promised him if he would deny his faith he would save his life he to save his life denyed his faith which having done he stab'd him rejoycing that by this he had at one time taken revenge both on soule and body for ever as you may see in Gehazi Achan and Judas and many in these our dayes Sinne is never at a stand Psal 1. v. 1. First ungodly then sinners then scorners here they goe on from sin to sin till they come to the top of sin viz. to sit in the seat of scorners or as ris in the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to affect the honour of the chair of Pestilence Austin writing upon John tells a story of a certaine man that was of an opinion that the Devill did make the flye and not God saith one to him if the Devill made flies then the Devill made wormes and God did not make them for they are living creatures as well as flies true said he the Devil did make wormes but said the other if the Devil did make wormes then he made birds beasts and man he granted all thus saith Austin by denying God in the fly he came to deny God in man and to deny the whole Creation by all this we see that the yeelding to lesser sins drawes the soul to the committing of greater Ah! how many in these dayes have fallen first to have low thoughts of Scripture and Ordinances and then to slight Scripture and Ordinances and then to make a nose of wax of Scripture and Ordinances and then to cast off Scripture and Ordinances and then at

Will not these rise in judgement against many Professors in these dayes who make nothing of over-reaching one another fiery furnace such was their tendernesse of the honour and glory of God and their hatred and indignation against sin that they would rather burn then sin they knew that it was far better to burne for their not sinning then that God and conscience should raise a hell a fire in their bosomes for sin I have read of that noble servant of God Marcus Arethusius Minister of a Church in the time of Constantine who in Constantines time had been the cause of overthrowing an Idols Temple afterwards when Julian came to be Emperour he would force the people of that place to build it up again they were ready to doe it but he refused whereupon those that were his owne people to whom he preached took him and stript him of all his cloaths and abused his naked body and gave it up to the Children to lance it with their pen-knives and then caused him to be put in a basket and anointed his naked body with Honey and set him in the Sun to be stung with Wasps and all this cruelty they shewed because he would not doe any thing toward the building up of this Idol-Temple nay they came to this that if he would doe but the least towards it if he would give but a halfe-penny to it they would save him but he refused all though the giving of a half-penny might have saved his life and in doing this he did but live up to that principle that most Christians talk of and all professe but few come up to it viz. That we must choose rather to suffer the worst of Torments that men and Devils can invent and inflict then to commit the least sin whereby God should be dishonoured our consciences wounded Religion reproached and our own souls endangered The sixt Remedy against this Device 6 Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider that the soule is never able to stand under the guilt and weight of the least sin when God shall set it home upon the soul the least sin will presse and sink the stoutest sinner as low as hell when God shall open the eyes of a sinner and make him see the horrid filthinesse and abominable vildnesse that is in sin What so little base and vile creatures as lice or gnats and yet by these little poor creatures God so plagued stout-hearted Pharaoh and all Aegypt that ●ainting under it they were forced to cry out This is the finger of God When little Exod. 8. 16 17 18 19. Creatures yea the least Creatures shall be armed with a power from God they shall presse and 〈◊〉 down the greatest proudest and stoutes● Tyrants that breath so when God shall put a sword The Tyrant Maximinus who had set forth his Proclamation ingraven in brasse for the utter abolishing of Christ and his Religion was eaten of Lice into the hand of a little sin and arm it against the soule the soule will faint and fall under it Some who have but projected adultery without any actuall acting it and others having found a trifle and made no conscience to restore it knowing by the light of naturall Conscience that they did not doe as they would be done by and others that have had some unworthy thought of God have been so frighted amazed Vna guttula malae conscien●iae totum mare mundani gaudii absorbet i. e. One drop of an evill conscience swallows up the whole sea of worldly joy How great a pain not to be borne comes from the prick of this small thorne said one and terrified for these sins which are small in mens account that they have wisht they had never been that they could take no delight in any earthly comfort that they have been put to their wits end ready to make away themselves wishing themselves annihilated Mr Perkins mentions a good man but very poor who being ready to starve stole a Lamb and being about to eat it with his poor children and as his manner was afore meat to crave a blessing durst not doe it but fell into a great perplexity of Conscience acknowledged his fault to the owner promising payment if ever he should be able The seventh Remedy against this Device 7 Remedy is solemnly to consider That there is more evill in the least sin then in the greatest affliction and this appears as clear as the Sun by the severe dealing of God the Father with his beloved Son who let all the vials of his fiercest wrath upon him and that for the least sin as well as for the greatest The wages Death is the hire of the least sin the best wages that the least sin gives his souldiers is death of all sorts in a strict sence there is no sin little because no little God to sin against of sin is death of sin indefinitely whether great or small Oh! how should this make us tremble as much at the least spark of lust as at hell it selfe Considering that God the Father would not spare his bosome Son no not for the least sin but would make him drink the dregs of his wrath And so much for the Remedies that may fence and preserve our souls from being drawn to sin by this third Device of Satan The fourth Device that Satan hath 4 Device to draw the soul to sin is by presenting to the soul the best mens sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues by shewing the soul their sins and by hiding from the soul their sorrow● and ●ep●ntance as by setting before the soul the Adultery of David the Pride of Hezekia● the Impatience of Job the Drunkennesse of Noah the Blasphemy of Peter c. and by hiding from the soul the tears the sighes the groans the meltings humblings and repentings of these precious souls Now the Remedies against this Device of the Devil are these that follow THe first Remedy against this Device 1 Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider that the Spirit of the Lord hath been as carefull to note the Saints rising by repentance out of sin as he hath to note their falling into sin David falls fearfully but by repentance he rises sweetly Blot out my transgressions wash mee throughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me Purge me with Hysop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter then snow deliver me from blood-guiltinesse O God thou God of my salvation 'T is true Hezekia●'s heart was lifted up under the abundance of mercy that God had cast in upon him and 't is as true that Hezekia● 2 Chron. 32. 25 26. humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon him nor upon Jerusalem in the dayes of Hezekiah 'T is true Job curses the day of his Birth and 't is ●● true

the justifying of beastiality as many have done in these dayes of vertue the more dangerous 't is to the souls of men this we see evident in these days by those very many souls that are turned out of the way that is holy and in which their souls have had sweet and glorious communion with God into wayes of highest vanity and folly by Satans neat colouring over of sin and painting forth vice under the name and colour of vertue this is so notoriously knowne that I need but name it the most dangerous vermine is too often to be found under the fairest and sweetest Flowers and the fairest glove is often drawn upon the foulest hand and the richest robes are often put upon the filthiest bodies so are the fairest and the sweetest names upon the greatest and the most horriblest vices and etrors that be in the world ah that we had not too many sad proofs of this amongst us The third Remedy against this Device 3 Remedy is to look on sin with that eye Tacitus speaks of Tiberius ●hat when his sins did app●ar in their own colours they did so terrifie and torment him that he protested to the Senate that he suffered death daily which within a few hours we shall see it ah souls when you shall lye upon a dying bed and stand before a judgement seat sin shall be unmaskt and its dresse and robes shall then be taken off and then it shall appear more vile filthy and terrible then Hell it self then that which formerly appear'd most sweet will appear most bitter and that which appear'd most beautifull will appear most ugly and that which appear'd most delightful will then appear most dreadfull to the soul ah the shame the paine the gall the bitternes the horrour the hell that the fight of sin when its dress is taken off will raise in poor souls Sin will surely prove evill and bitter to the soul when its robes are taken off A man may have the Stone who feels no fit of it Conscience will work at last though for the present one may feele no fit of accusation Laban Satan that now allures thee to sin will ere long make thee see that Peccatum est deicidium sin is a murthering of God and this will make thee murther two at once thy soule and thy body unlesse the Lord in mercy holds thy hand shewed himself at parting sin will be bitternes in the latter end when it shall appear to the soul in its own filthy nature The Devil deals with men as the Panther doth with Beasts he hides his deformed head till his sweet sent hath drawn them into his danger till we have sinned Satan is a Parasite when we have sinned he is a Tyrant Ah souls the day is at hand when the Devil will pull off the paint and garnish that he hath put upon sin and present that monster sin in such a monstrous shape to your soules that will cause your thoughts to be be troubled your countenance to be changed the joynts of your loines to be loosed and your knees to be dashed one against another and your hearts to be so terrified that you will be ready with Achitophel and Judas to strangle and hang your bodies on earth and your soules in Hell if the Lord hath not more mercy on you then he had on them oh therefore looke upon sin now as you must look upon it to all eternity and as God Conscience and Satan will present it to you another day The fourth Remedie against this device 4. Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that even these very sins that Satan paints and puts new names and colours V●a guttula plus valet quam coelum terra Luther i. e. one little drop speaking of the blood of Christ is more worth then Heaven and Earth upon cost the best blood the noblest blood the life-blood the heart-blood of the Lord Jesus that Christ should come from the eternall bosome of his Father to a Region of sorrow and death that God should be manifested in the flesh the Creator made a Creature that he that was cloathed with glory should be wrapped with raggs of flesh he that filled heaven and earth with his glory should be cradled in a manger that the power of God should flie from weak man the God of Israel into Aegypt that the God of the Law should be subject to the Law One of the Rabbins when he read what bitter torments the Messias should suffer when he came into the world cryed out Veniat Messias at ego non videam i. e. Let the Messias come but let not me see him Dionysius being in Aegypt at the time of Christs suffering and seeing an Eclipse of the Sun and knowing it to be contrary to nature cryed out aut Deus naturae patitur aut mundi machina dissolvitur Either the God of Nature suffered or the frame of the world will be dlssolved the God of Circumcision circumcised the God that made the Heavens working at Josephs homely trade that he that bindes the Devills in chaines should be tempted that he whose is the world and the fulnesse thereof should hunger and thirst that the God of strength should be weary the Judge of all flesh condemned the God of life put to death that he that is one with his Father should cry out of misery my God my God why hast thou forsaken mee that he that had the keyes of Hell and death at his girdle should lie imprison'd in the sepulcher of another having in his life time no where to lay his head nor after death to lay his body that that head before which the Angels doe cast down their Crowns should be crowned with thornes and those eyes purer then the Sun put out by the darknesse of death those eares which hear nothing but Hallelujahs of Saints and Angels to hear the blasphemies of the multitude that face that was fairer then the Sons of men to be spit on by those beastly wretched Jewes that mouth and tongue that spake as never man spake accused for blasphemy those hands that freely swayed the Scepter of Heaven nailed to the Crosse those feet like unto fine brasse nailed to the Crosse for mans sins each sense annoyed his feeling or touching with a speare and nailes 'T is an excellent saying of Bernard quanto pro nobis vilior tanto nobis charior the more vilde Christ made himself for us the more dear he ought to be to us his smell with stinking savour being crucified about Golgatha the place of Skulls his taste with vinegar and gall his hearing with reproaches and sight with his mother and Disciples bemoaning him his soule comfortlesse and forsaken and all this for those very sins that Satan paints and puts fine colours upon oh how should the consideration of this stir up the soule against it and worke the soule to flie from it and to use all holy meanes whereby sin may be

that he rises by repentance Behold I am vile saith he what shall I answer thee Job 40. 4 5. ch 42. 5 6. I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ●are but now mine eye seeth thee Wherefore I abhor my Tertullian saith that he was Nalli rei natus nisi penitentiae borne for no other purpose but to repent selfe and repent in dust and ashes Peter fals dreadfully but rises by repentance sweetly a look of love from Christ melts him into tears he knew that repentance was the key to the Kingdome of Grace As once his Faith was so great that he leapt as it were into a sea of waters to come to Christ so now his repentance was so great that he leapt as it were into a sea of tears for Luther confesses that before his conversion he met not with a more displeasing word in allhis study of Divinity then Repent but afterward he took delight in the work poenitens de peccaio dolet de dolore g●udet to sorrow for his sin and then to rejoyce in his sorrow that he had gone from Christ Some say that after his sad fall he was ever and anon weeping and that his face was even furrowed with continual tears he had no sooner took in poyson but he vomited it up again ere it got to the vitals he had no sooner handled this Serpent but he turned it into a rod to scourge his soule with remorse for sining against such clear light and strong love and sweet discoveries of the heart of Christ to him Clement notes that Peter so repented that all his life after every night when he heard the Cock crow he would fall upon his knees and weeping bitterly would beg pardon of this sin Ah soules you can easily sin as the Saints but can you repent with the Saints Many can sin with David and Peter that cannot repent with David and Peter and so must perish for ever Theodosius the Emperour pressing that he might receive the Lords Supper excuses Theodorit hist l. 4. c. 17. his own foul fact by Davids doing the like to which Ambrose replies Thou hast followed David transgressing follow David repenting and then think thou of the Table of the Lord. The second Remedy against this Device 2 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that these Saints did not make a trade of sin they fell once or twice and rose by Repentance that they might The Saints cannot sin voluntate plenâ sed semiplena with a whole will but as it were with an halfe will an unwilling willingnes not with a full consent but with a dissenting consent keep the closer to Christ for ever they fell accidentally occasionally and with much reluctancy and thou sinnest presumptuously obstinately readily delightfully and customarily thou hast by thy making a trade of sin contracted upon thy soul a kind of cursed necessity of sinning that thou canst as well cease to be or cease to live as thou canst cease to sin sin is by custome become as another nature to thee which thou canst not which thou wilt not lay aside though thou knowest that if thou dost not lay sin aside God will lay thy soul aside for ever though thou knowest that if sin and thy soul doe not part Christ and thy soul can never meet if thou wilt make a trade of sin and cry out did not David sin thus and Noah 2 Pet. 2. 14. Pro. 4 14. 16. Though sin doe habitare dwell in the regenerate as Austin notes yet it doth not regnare reign over the regenerate they rise by repentance sin thus and Peter sin thus c. No their hearts turn'd aside to folly one day but thy heart turns aside to folly every day and when they were fallen they rise by repentance and by the actings of Faith upon a crucified Christ but thou fallest and hast no strength nor will to rise but wallowest in sin and wilt eternally dye in thy sins unlesse the Lord be the more mercifull to thy soul Dost thou think oh soule this is good reasoning Such a one tasted poyson but once and yet narrowly escapt but I doe daily drink poyson yet I shall escape yet such is the mad reasoning of vaine soules David and Peter c. sinned once foully and fearfully they tasted poyson but once and were sick to death but I tast it daily and yet shall not tast of eternall death Remember oh souls that the day is at hand when self-flatterers will be found self-deceivers yea self-murtherers The third Remedy against this Device 3 Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider that though God doth not nor never will disinherit his people for their sins yet he hath severely punished his people for their sins David sins and God breaks his bones for his sin Make me to Psalm 51. 8. Josephus reports that not long after the Jews had crucified Christ on the crosse so many of them were condemned to be crucified that there were not places enough for crosses nor crosses enough for the bodies that were to be hung thereon hear joy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce And because thou host do●e this the Sword shall not depart from thy house to the day of thy death Though God will not utterly take from them his loving kindnesse nor suffer his faithfullnesse to faile nor breake his Covenant nor alter the thing that is gone out of his mouth yet will he visit their transgressions with a rod and their iniquity with stripes Psal 89. 30. 35. The Scripture abounds with instances of this kind this is so known a truth among all that know any thing of truth that to cite more Scriptures to prove it would be to light a Candle to see the Sun at noon The Jewes have a Proverb that There is no punishment comes upon Israel in which there is not one ounce of the Golden Calfe Meaning that that was so great a sin as that in every plague God remembred it that had an influence into every trouble that befell them Every mans heart may say to him in his sufferings as the heart of Apollodorus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the kettle I have been the cause of this God is most angry when he shewes no anger God keep me from this mercy this kind of mercy is worse then Qui non est crucianus non est christianus saith Luther there is not a Christian that carries not his crosse all other misery One writing to a sick friend hath this expression I account it a part of unhappinesse not to know adversity I judge you to be miserable because you have not been miserable 'T is mercy that our affliction is not an execution but a correction he that hath deserved hanging may be glad if he scape with a

deadly consumption to fall upon some Now the remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow THe first Remedy against this Device 1 Remedie of Satan is to dwell more upon one anothers graces then upon one anothers weaknesses and infirmities 't is sad to consider that Saints should have Flavius Vespasianus the Emperour was more ready to conceal the vices of his friends then their virtues can you think seriously of this Christians that a Heathen should excell you not blush 2 Cor. 2. 7 8. many eyes to behold one anothers infirmities and not one eye to see each others graces that they should use spectacles to behold one anothers weaknesses rather then looking glasses to behold one anothers graces Erasmus tels of one who collected all the lame and defective Verses in Homers works but passed over all that were excellent ah that this were not the practice of many that shall at last meet in Heaven that they were not carefull and skillfull to collect all the weaknesses of others and to passe over all those things that are excellent in them The Corinthians did eye more the incestuous persons sinne then his sorrow which was like to have drown'd him in sorrow Tell me Saints is it not a more sweet comfortable and delightfull thing to look more upon one anothers graces then upon one anothers infirmities Tell me what pleasure what delight what comfort is there in looking upon the enemies the wounds the sores the sicknesses the diseases the nakednesse of our friends Now sin you know is the souls enemy the souls wound the souls sores the souls sicknesse the souls Non Gens sed mens non Genus sed Genius Not race or place but grace truly sets forth a m●n disease the souls nakednesse and ah what a heart hath that man that loves thus to look Grace is the choicest flower in all a Christians garden 't is the richest Jewell in all his Crown 't is his Princely Robes 't is the top of Royalty and therefore must needs be the most pleasing sweet and delightfull object for a gracious eye to be fixt upon Sin is darknesse grace is light sin is hell grace is Heaven and what madnesse is it to look more at darknesse then at light more at hell then at Heaven Jam. 5. 11. 2. 25. 1 Pet. 2. 6. vide Sin is Satans work Grace is Gods work● is it not most ●●●et that the child should eye most and mind most his Fathers work c. T●ll me Saints doth not God look more upon his people graces then upon their weaknesses surely he doth he looks more at Davids and Asa's uprightnesse then upon their infirmities though they were great and many he eyes more Job's patience then his passion Remember the patience of Job not a word of his impatience c. He that drew Alexander whilest he had a scar upon his face drew him with his finger upon the scar God puts his finger upon his peoples scars that no blemish may appear ah Saints that you would make it the top of your glory in this to be like your heavenly Father by so doing much sin would be prevented the designes of wicked men frustrated Satan out-witted many wounds healed many sad hearts cheared and God more aboundantly honored c. The second Remedy against this Device 2 Remedy of Satan i● solemnly to consider that love and unity makes most for your own safety and security We shall There was a Temple of Concord amongst the Heathens and shall it not be found among Christians that are Temples of the holy Ghost be insuperabiles if we be inseperabiles invincible if wee be inseperable The world may frowne upon you and plot against you but they cannot hurt you unity is the best bond of safety in every Church and Common-wealth And this did that Scythian King in Plutark represent lively to his 80 Sons when being ready to dye he commanded a bundle of Arrowes fast bound together to be given to his Sons to break they all tried to break them but being bound fast together they could not then he caused the band to be cut then they Pancirollus saith that the most precious pearle among the Romans was call'd unio union broke them with ease he applyed it thus My Sons so long as you keepe together you will be invincible but if the band of union be broke betwixt you you will easily be broken in ●ieces Plinie writes of a stone in the Island of Scyrus that if it be whole though a large and heavy one it swims above water but being broken it sinks so long as Saints keep whole nothing shall sink them but if they break they are in danger of sinking and drowning c. The third Remedy against this Device 3 Remedy of Satan is to dwell upon those commands of God that doe require you To act or run crosse to Gods expresse command though under pretence of Revelation from God is as much as a mans life is worth as you may see in that sad story 1 Kings 13. 24. to love one another oh when your hearts begin to rise against each other charge the Commands of God upon your hearts and say to your souls oh our souls hath not the eternall God commanded you to love them that love the Lord And is it not life to obey and death to rebell Therefore looke that you fulfill the commands of the Lord for his commands are not like those that are easily reversed but they are like those of the Medes that cannot be changed Oh! be much in pondering upon these Commands of God A new Commandement I give unto you that yee John 13. 34. love one another as I have loved you that yee also love one another 'T is called a new Some conceive it to be an Hebraisme in which language new rare and most excellent are Synonima's John 15. 12. 17. commandement because 't is renewed in the Gospel and set home by Christs example and because 't is rare choise speciall and remarkable above all others This is my commandement that ye love one another as I have loved you These things I command you that ye love one another Owe no man any thing but love one another for he that loveth another hath Rom. 13. 8. fulfilled the Law Let brotherly love continue Heb. 13. 1. Love one another for love is of 1 Iohn 4. 7. God And every one that loveth is borne of 1 Pet. 1. 22. God and knoweth God See that ye love Chap. 3. v. 8. one another with a pure heart fervently Finally be ye all of one minde having compassion one of another Love as brethren be pittifull be courteous For this is the message 1 Iohn 3. 11. that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another And this is his Verse 23. Commandement that wee should beleeve on the name of his sonne Jesus Christ and