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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

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Brooks treated the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present da...

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Author: Thomas Brooks
Publisher: Banner of Truth

Brooks treated the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present day.

Brooks lists seven reasons for writing this book. The first reason is enough…Brooks says, “Satan hath a greater influence upon men, and higher advantages over them than they think he hath, and the knowledge of his high advantage is the highway to disappoint him, and to render the soul strong in resisting, and happy in conquering.

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	Thomas Brooks - a Brief Biography	11
	The Epistle Dedicatory	15
	A Word to the Reader	21
	Introduction	25
	THE PROOF OF THE POINT	27
	SATAN'S DEVICES TO DRAW THE SOUL TO SIN
	[12 devices and their remedies]
1	By presenting the bait and hiding the hook	29
2	By painting sin with virtue's colours	34
3	By the extenuating and lessening of sin	38
4	By showing to the soul the best men's sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues, their sorrows, and their repentance	45
5	By presenting God to the soul as One made up all of mercy	50
6	By persuading the soul that repentance is easy and that therefore the soul need not scruple about sinning	55
7	By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin	66
8	By representing to the soul the outward mercies enjoyed by men walking in sin, and their freedom from outward miseries	70
9	By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, sorrows and sufferings that daily attend those who walk in the ways of holiness	79
10	By causing saints to compare themselves and their ways with those reputed to be worse than themselves	89
11	By polluting the souls and judgments of men with dangerous errors that lead to looseness and wickedness	92
12	By leading men to choose wicked company	99
	SATAN'S DEVICES TO KEEP SOULS FROM HOLY DUTIES, TO HINDER SOULS IN HOLY SERVICES, TO KEEP THEM OFF FROM RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES
	[8 devices and their remedies]
1	By presenting the world in such a garb as to ensnare the soul	102
2	By presenting to the soul the dangers, losses and sufferings that accompany the performance of certain religious duties	112
3	By presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing religious duties	117
4	By causing saints to draw false inferences from the blessed and glorious things that Christ has done	122
5	By presenting to view the fewness and poverty of those who hold to religious practices	127
6	By showing saints that the majority of men make light of God's ways and walk in the ways of their own hearts	133
7	By casting in vain thoughts while the soul is seeking God or waiting on God	135
8	By tempting Christians to rest in their performances	139
	SATAN'S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION
	[8 devices and their remedies]	142
1	By causing saints to remember their sins more than their Saviour, yea, even to forget and neglect their Saviour	142
2	By causing saints to make false definitions of their graces	148
3	By causing saints to make false inferences from the cross actions of Providence	151
4	By suggesting to saints that their graces are not true, but counterfeit	154
5	By suggesting to saints that the conflict that is in them is found also in hypocrites and profane souls	162
6	By suggesting to the saint who has lost joy and comfort that his state is not good	167
7	By reminding the saint of his frequent relapses into sin formerly repented of and prayed against	171
8	By persuading saints that their state is not good nor their graces sound	176
	SATAN'S DEVICES TO DESTROY AND ENSNARE ALL SORTS AND RANKS OF MEN IN THE WORLD
	[5 devices and their remedies]
I	DEVICES AGAINST THE GREAT AND HONOURABLE OF THE EARTH
1	By causing them to seek greatness, position, riches and security	183
2	By causing them to act against the people of the Most High	190
II	DEVICE AGAINST THE LEARNED AND THE WISE	194
	By moving them to pride themselves on their parts and abilities, and to despise men of greater grace but inferior abilities	194
III	DEVICE AGAINST THE SAINTS
	By dividing them and causing them to ‘bite and devour one another'	198
IV	DEVICE AGAINST POOR AND IGNORANT SOULS
	By causing them to affect ignorance and to neglect and despise the means of knowledge	211
	APPENDIX
	TOUCHING FIVE MORE OF SATAN'S DEVICES	214
1	By suggesting to men the greatness and vileness of their sins	214
2	By suggesting to sinners their unworthiness	222
3	By suggesting to sinners their want of certain preparations and qualifications	224
4	By suggesting to sinners that Christ is unwilling to save them	228
5	By causing sinners to give more attention to the secret decrees and counsels of God than to their own duty	229
	SEVEN CHARACTERS OF FALSE TEACHERS	230
	SIX PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING SATAN AND HIS DEVICES	234
	[Five reasons of the point added]	240
	CONCLUSION - CHIEFLY, TEN SPECIAL HELPS AND RULES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES	243