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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

shall not be so hot to thee as to others yet thou must as certainly to hell as others unlesse the glorious grace of God shines forth upon thee in the face of Christ God wil suit mens punishments to their sins the greatest sins shall be attended with the greatest punishments and lesser sins with lesser punishments alasse what a poor comfort will this be to thee when thou comest to die to consider that thou shalt not be equally tormented with others and yet must be for ever shut out from the glorious presence of God Christ Angels and Saints and from those good things of eternall life that are so many that they exceed number The gate of Indulgence the gate of hope the gate of mercy the gate of glory the gate of consolation and the gate of salvatio● will be for ever shu● against them Mat. 25. 10. so great that they exceed measure so precious that they exceed estimation Sure it is that the tears of hell are not sufficient to bewaile the losse of heaven the worme of grief gnawes as painfull as the fire burnes if those soules Acts 20. wept because they should see Paul's face no more How deplorable is the eternall deprivation of the beatificallvision But this not all thou shalt not be onely shut out of heaven but shut up in hell for ever not onely shut out from the presence of God and Angells c. but shut up with devills and damned spirit for ever not onely shut out from 'T was a good saying of Chrysostome speaking of Hell Ne quaeramu● ubi sit sed quomodo illam fugiamus let us not seek where it is but how we shall escape it those sweet surpassing unexpressabl and everlasting pleasures that be at Gods right hand but shut up for ever under those torments that are easelesse remedilesse and endlesse Ah soules were it not ten thousand times better for yee to break off your sins by repentance then to goe on in your sins till you feele the truth of what now you hear The God of Israel is very mercifull ah that you would repent and returne that your soules might live for ever Remember this grievous is the torment of the damned for the bitternesse of the punishments but most grievous for the eternity of the punishments For to be tormented without end this is Surely one good means to escape Hel is to take a turne or two in Hell by our daily meditations that which goes beyond all the bounds of desperation ah how doe the thoughts of this make the damned to roare and cry out for disquietnesse of heart and teare their haire and gnash their teeth and rage for madnesse that they must dwell in everlasting burnings for ever The eleventh Device that Satan hath 11 Device to draw the soule to sin is by polluting and defiling the soules and judgements of men with such dangerous errors that doe in their proper tendency tend to carry the soules of men to all loosnesse and wickednesse as wofull experience doth abundantly evidence Ah! how many are there filled with these and such like Christ-dishonouring and soule-undoing opinions viz. That Ordinances are poor low carnall things and not onely to be lived above but without also That the Scriptures are full of fallasies and uncertainties and no further to be heeded then they agree with that spirit that is in them That 't is a poor low thing if not idolatry too to worship God in a Mediator That the Resurrection is already past That there was never any such man or person as Jesus Christ but that all is an Allegory and it signifies nothing but light and love and such good frames borne in men That there 's no God nor Devill Heaven nor Hell but what is within us That there is no sinne in the Saints they are under no Law but that of the spirit which is all freedome That sin and grace are equally of God and agreeth to his will with a hundred other horrid opinions which hath caused wickednesse to break in as a flood among us c. Now the generall Remedies against this Device of Satan are these that follow THe first Remedy against this Device 1 Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that an erroneous vain mind is as odious A blinde eye is worse then a lame foot Lev. 13. 44. to God as a vicious life he that had the leprosie in his head was to be pronounced utterly unclean Grosse errors make the heart foolish and render the life loose and the soul light in the eye of God Errour spreads and frets The breath of the erronious is infectious and like the dogs of Cong● they bite though they barke not like a Gangreen and renders the soul a leoper in the sight of God It was Gods heavy and dreadfull plague upon the Gentiles to be given up to a mind void of Judgement or an injudicious mind or a mind rejected disallowed abhorred of God or a mind that none have cause to glory in but rather to be ashamed Through animosity to persist in errour is diabolicall it were best that we never erred next to that that we amended our errour of I think that in these dayes God doth punish many mens former wickednesses by giving them up to soule-ruining errours Ah Lord this mercy I humbly beg that thou wouldest rather take me into thine owne hand and doe any thing with me then to give me up to those sad errours to which thousands have married their souls and are in a way of perishing for ever The second Remedy against this Device 2 Remedy of Satan is to receive the truth affectionately and let it dwell in your soules plenteously when men stand out against the truth when truth would enter The greatest sinners are sure to be the greatest sufferers and men bar the door of their souls against truth God in justice gives up such souls to be deluded and deceived by errour to their eternall undoing 2 Thess 2. 10 11 12. Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved God shall send them strong delusions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the Greek hath it the efficacie of errour that they should believe a lye That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse Ah sirs as you love your soules doe not tempt God do not provoke God by your withstanding truth and out-facing truth to give you up to beleeve a lye that you may be damned There are no men on earth so fenc'd against errour as those are that receive the truth in the love of it Such soules Ephes 4. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. signifies cogging with a dye such slights as cheaters and false gamesters use at D●c● are not easily tossed too and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive