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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

those that are drawn from the consideration of the great and glorious things that Christ hath done for you and if such arguments will not take yee and win upon yee I do● think the throwing of hell fire in your faces will never do it The third Remedie against this device 3. Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that those precious souls which Jesus Christ The Saints Motto in all ages hath been Laboremus let 's be doing hath done and suffered as much for as he hath for you have been exceeding active and lively in all religious services and heavenly performances he did as much and suffered as much for David God loves curristas not quaristas the runner not the questioner or disputer saith Luther a● for you and yet who more in praying and praysing God then David seven times a day will I praise the Lord who more in the studying and meditating on the word then David Thy law is my meditation day and night The same truth you may run and read in Jacob Moses Job Daniel and in the rest of the holy Prophets and Apostles for whom Christ hath done as much for as for you ah how have all those Worthies abounded in works of righteousnesse and holinesse to the praise of free grace Certainly Satan hath got the upper hand of those souls that do argue thus The day is at hand when God will require of men non quid legerint sed quid egerint nec quid dixerint sed quomodo vixerin● He that talks of heaven but doth not the will of God is like him that gazed upon the Moon but fell into the pit Christ hath done such and such glorious things for us therefore wee need not make any care or conscience of d●ing such and such religious services as men say the word calls for if this Logick be not from Hell what is ah were the holy Prophets and Apostles alive to heare such Logick come out of the mouths of such as professe themselves to be interested in the great and glorious things that Jesus Christ hath done for his chosen ones how would they blush to look upon such souls and how would their hearts grieve and break within them to heare the language and to observe the actings of such soules The fourth Remedy against this device 4. Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider this that those that doe not walk in ways of righteousnesse and holines that do not wait upon God in the several duties and services that are commanded by him cannot have that evidence to their own soules of their righteousnesse before God of their fellowship and communion Certainly 't is one thing to judg by our graces another thing to rest or put our trust in them There is a great deal of difference betwixt declaring and deserving on with God of their blessednesse here and their happinesse hereafter as those soules have that love and delight in the wayes of the Lord that are always best when they are most in the works and service of the Lord. Little children saith the Apostle let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous In this saith the same Apostle the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devill whosoever doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither hee As Davids daughters were known by their garments of divers colours so are Gods children by their piety and sanctity that loveth not his brother If ye know that he is righteous saith the same Apostle ye know that every one that doth righteousnes● is born of him He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandements is a lyer and the truth is not in him But who soever keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him He that saith he abideth in him ought himselfe also to walke even as he A Christians embleme should be an house walking towards Heaven High words surely make a man neither holy nor just but a vertuous life a circumspect walking makes him deare to God A tree that is not fruitful is for the fire Christianity is not a talking but a walking with God who will not be put off with words if he misse of fruit he will take up his axe and then the soul is cut off for ever walked If wee say that we have fellowship with him and walk i● darknesse we lie and doe not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light wee have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin saith the same Apostle So James in his second chapter What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have no workes can faith save him i. e. it cannot for as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead To looke after holy and heavenly works is the best way to preserve the soule from being deceived and deluded by Satans delusions and by sudden flashes of joy and comfort holy works being a more sensible and constant pledge of the precious spirit begetting and maintaining in the soule more solid pure clear strong and lasting joy Ah souls as you would have in your selves a constant and blessed evidence of your fellowship with the Father and the Sonne and of the truth of grace and of your future happinesse look that you cleave close to holy services and that you turne not your backs upon religious duties The fifth Remedy against this device 5 Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that 'T is a precious truth never to be forgotten Quod non actibus sed finibus pensantur officia that duties are esteemed not by their acts but by their ends there are other choice and glorious ends for the Saints performance of religious duties then for the justifying of their persons before God or for their satisfying of the Law or justice of God or for the purchasing of the pardon of sin c. viz. to testifie their justification a good tree cannot but bring forth good fruit to testifie their love to God and their sincere obedience to th● commands of God to testifie their deliverance from spirituall bondage to evidence the indwellings Finis move● ad agendum the end moves to doing of the spirit to stop the mouths of the worst of men and to glad those righteous souls that God would not have sadded These and abundance of other choise ends there be why those that have an interest in the glorious doings of Christ should notwithstanding that keep close to the holy duties and religious services that are commanded Tene mensuram respice sinem keep thy selfe within compasse and have an eye always to the end of thy life and actions was Maximimilians the Emperours Motto by Christ And if these considerations will not prevail with you to wait upon God in

righteousnesse and let this suffice for the first answer The second Remedie against this Device 2. Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that God in the Scriptures doth define John 1. 12. faith otherwise God defines faith to be a ●●ceiving of Christ As many as received him to them he gave this priviledge to be Act. 11. 23. the sons of God to as many as beleeved on his name to be a cleaving of the soule unto God though no joy but afflictions attend the soule Yea the Lord defines faith to be a coming to God in Christ Mat. 11. 28. John 6. 37. Heb. 7. 25. 26. Isa 3. 4 c. and often to a resting and staying or rouling of the soule upon Christ 'T is safest and sweetest to define as God defines both vices and graces this is the only way to settle the soule and to secure it against all the wiles of men and devills who labour by false definitions of grace to keepe precious soules in a doubting staggering and languishing condition and so make their lives a burden a hell unto them The third Remedie against this device 3 Remedie of Satan is seriously to consider this that there may be true faith where there Mat. 6. 30. chap. 14. 31. chap. 16. 8. is much doubtings witnesse those frequent sayings of Christ to his Disciples Why are yee afraid oh yee of little faith Luke 12. 28. Persons may be truly believing who neverthelesse are sometimes doubting in the same persons that the fore-mentioned Scriptures speak of you may see their faith commended and their doubts condemned which doth necessarily suppose a presence of both The fourth Remedie against this device 4 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that assurance is an effect of faith therefore it cannot be faith The cause cannot be the effect nor the root the fruit as the effect slowes from the cause the fruit from the root the stream from the fountain so doth the assurance flow from faith this truth I shall make good thus The assurance of our salvation and pardon of sin doth primarily arise from the witnesse of the spirit of God that Ephes 1. 13. Gal. 5. 6. we are the children of God And the spirit never witnesseth this till we are beleevers for we are sonnes by faith in Gal. 4 6. Christ Jesus therefore assurance is not faith but followes it as the effect follows the cause Againe no man can be assured and perswaded of his salvation till he be united to Christ till he be ingrafted into Christ and a man cannot be ingrafted into Christ till he hath faith hee must first be ingrafted into Christ by faith before he can have assurance of his salvation which doth clearly evidence that assurance is not faith but an effect and fruit of faith c. Again faith cannot be lost but assurance may therefore assurance is not faith Though assurance be a precious Psal 51. 12. Psal 30. 6 7. flower in the garden of a Saint and is more infinitely sweet and delightful to the soule then all outward comforts Cant. 5. 6. Isa 8. 17. and contents yet 't is but a flower that is subject to fade and to loose its freshnesse There is many thousand precious souls of whom this world is not worthy that have the ●aith of reliance yet want assurance and the effects of it as high joy glorious peace and vehement longings after the coming of Christ and beauty as Saints by sad experience finde c. Againe a man must first have faith before he can have assurance therefore assurance is not faith and that a man must first have faith before he can have assurance is cleare by this a man must first be saved before he can be assured of his salvation for he cannot be assured of that which is not and a man must first have a saving faith before he can be saved by faith for he cannot be saved by that which he hath not therefore a man must first have faith before he can have assurance and so it roundly followes that assurance is not faith c. The third Device that Satan 3 Device hath to keepe the soul in a sad doubting and questioning condition is BY working the soule to make false Psal 77. 7. 11. Psal 88. 1. ult Psal 73. 2. 23. inferences from the crosse actings of providence saith Satan dost thou not see how Providence crosses thy prayers and crosses thy desires thy teares thy hopes thy endeavours surely if his love were toward thee if his soule did delight and take pleasure in thee he would not deale thus with thee 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 many things may be crosse to our desires that are not crosse to our good Abraham Jacob David Job Moses Jeremiah The Circumcellians being not able to withstand the preaching writing of Augustine sought his destruction having beset the way he was to goe his visitation but by Gods providence he missing his way escaped the danger Jonah Paul c. met with many things that were contrary to their de fires and endeavours that were not contrary to their good as all know that have wisely compared their desires and endeavours and Gods actings together Physick often works contrary to the Patients desires when it doth not work contrary to their good I remember a story of a godly man who had a great desire to goe to France and as he was going to take shipping he broke his leg and it pleased providence so to order it that the ship that he should have gone in at that very same time was cast away and not a man saved and so by breaking a bone his life was saved Though Providence did worke crosse to his desires yet it did not work cross to his good c. The second Remedie against this device 2 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that the hand of God may be against a man when the love and heart of God is much set upon a man No man can conclude how the heart of God stands by his hand The hand of God was against Ephraim and yet his love his heart was Ier. 31. 18 19 20. Gods providentiall hand may be with persons when his heart is set against them Gods providentiall hand was for a time with Saul Haman Ashur Iehu and yet his heart was set against them No man knoweth love or hatred by all that is before them Eccles 9. 1 2. dearly set upon Ephraim I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himselfe thus thou hast chastised mee and I was chastised as a bullocke unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh