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A copy in the collection, so you can check your own against it.
Publication
- Publisher
- The Banner of Truth Trust
- Series
- Puritan Paperbacks
- Date published
- Sep 22, 2021
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dust jacket
- No
- Total pages
- 344 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9781800401679
Reference
- E-book / audio
- ePub, Mobi
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- Thomas Brooks - a Brief Biography
- The Epistle Dedicatory
- A Word to the Reader
- Introduction
- THE PROOF OF THE POINT
- SATAN'S DEVICES TO DRAW THE SOUL TO SIN
- [12 devices and their remedies]
- 1. By presenting the bait and hiding the hook
- 2. By painting sin with virtue's colours
- 3. By the extenuating and lessening of sin
- 4. By showing to the soul the best men's sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues, their sorrows, and their repentance
- 5. By presenting God to the soul as One made up all of mercy
- 6. By persuading the soul that repentance is easy and that therefore the soul need not scruple about sinning
- 7. By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin
- 8. By representing to the soul the outward mercies enjoyed by men walking in sin, and their freedom from outward miseries
- 9. By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, sorrows and sufferings that daily attend those who walk in the ways of holiness
- 10. By causing saints to compare themselves and their ways with those reputed to be worse than themselves
- 11. By polluting the souls and judgments of men with dangerous errors that lead to looseness and wickedness
- 12. By leading men to choose wicked company
- 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
- 2. By presenting to the soul the dangers, losses and sufferings that accompany the performance of certain religious duties
- 3. By presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing religious duties
- 4. By causing saints to draw false inferences from the blessed and glorious things that Christ has done
- 5. By presenting to view the fewness and poverty of those who hold to religious practices
- 6. By showing saints that the majority of men make light of God's ways and walk in the ways of their own hearts
- 7. By casting in vain thoughts while the soul is seeking God or waiting on God
- 8. By tempting Christians to rest in their performances
- SATAN'S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION
- [8 devices and their remedies]
- 1. By causing saints to remember their sins more than their Saviour, yea, even to forget and neglect their Saviour
- 2. By causing saints to make false definitions of their graces
- 3. By causing saints to make false inferences from the cross actions of Providence
- 4. By suggesting to saints that their graces are not true, but counterfeit
- 5. By suggesting to saints that the conflict that is in them is found also in hypocrites and profane souls
- 6. By suggesting to the saint who has lost joy and comfort that his state is not good
- 7. By reminding the saint of his frequent relapses into sin formerly repented of and prayed against
- 8. By persuading saints that their state is not good nor their graces sound
- 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
- 2. By causing them to act against the people of the Most High
- II. DEVICE AGAINST THE LEARNED AND THE WISE
- By moving them to pride themselves on their parts and abilities, and to despise men of greater grace but inferior abilities
- III. DEVICE AGAINST THE SAINTS
- By dividing them and causing them to 'bite and devour one another'
- IV. DEVICE AGAINST POOR AND IGNORANT SOULS
- By causing them to affect ignorance and to neglect and despise the means of knowledge
- APPENDIX
- TOUCHING FIVE MORE OF SATAN'S DEVICES
- 1. By suggesting to men the greatness and vileness of their sins
- 2. By suggesting to sinners their unworthiness
- 3. By suggesting to sinners their want of certain preparations and qualifications
- 4. By suggesting to sinners that Christ is unwilling to save them
- 5. By causing sinners to give more attention to the secret decrees and counsels of God than to their own duty
- SEVEN CHARACTERS OF FALSE TEACHERS
- SIX PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING SATAN AND HIS DEVICES
- [Five reasons of the point added]
- CONCLUSION - CHIEFLY, TEN SPECIAL HELPS AND RULES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES