Precious Remedies Against Satan

1 00.1. Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices 2 00.4. A WORD TO THE READER 3 00.5. INTRODUCTION 4 01. THE PROOF OF THE POINT 5 02. SATAN'S DEVICES TO DRAW THE SOUL TO SIN 6 03. DEVICE 1. TO PRESENT THE BAIT AND HIDE THE HOOK 7 04. DEVICE 2. BY PAINTING SIN WITH VIRTUE'S COLORS. 8 05. DEVICE 3. BY EXTENUATING AND LESSENING OF SIN 9 06. DEVICE 4. By presenting to the soul the best men's sins, and by hiding from the soul their vi... 10 07. DEVICE 5. To present God to the soul as one made up all of mercy. 11 08. DEVICE 6. By persuading the soul that the work of repentance is an easy work; and that theref... 12 09. DEVICE 7. By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin. 13 10. DEVICE 8. By representing to the soul the outward mercies that vain men enjoy, and the outwar... 14 11. DEVICE 9. By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, reproaches, sorrows, and sufferings,... 15 12. DEVICE 10. By working them to be frequent in comparing themselves and their ways, with those ... 16 13. DEVICE 11. By polluting and defiling the souls and judgments of men with such dangerous error... 17 14. DEVICE 12. To choose wicked company, to keep wicked society. 18 15. SATAN'S DEVICES TO KEEP SOULS FROM HOLY DUTIES, TO HINDER SOULS IN HOLY SERVICES, AND TO KEEP... 19 16. DEVICE 1. By presenting the WORLD in such a dress, and in such a garb to the soul, as to ensn... 20 17. DEVICE 2. The second device that Satan has to draw the soul from holy duties, and to keep the... 21 18. DEVICE 3 By presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing them. 22 19. DEVICE 4. By working them to make false inferences from those blessed and glorious things tha... 23 20. DEVICE 5. By presenting to them the fewness and poverty of those who walk in the ways of God—... 24 21. DEVICE 6. By presenting before them the examples of the greatest part of the world—who walk i... 25 22. DEVICE 7. By casting in a multitude of vain thoughts, while the soul is in seeking of God, or... 26 23. DEVICE 8. By working them to rest in their performances; to rest in prayer, and to rest in he... 27 24. SATAN'S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING & UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION 28 25. DEVICE 1. The first device that Satan has to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning c... 29 26. DEVICE 2. By working them to make false definitions of their graces. 30 27. DEVICE 3. By working the soul to make false inferences from the cross actings of Providence. 31 28. DEVICE 4. By suggesting to them that their graces are not true—but counterfeit. 32 29. DEVICE 5. By suggesting to them, That that conflict which is in them, is not a conflict which... 33 30. DEVICE 6. By suggesting to the soul, that surely his estate is not good, because he cannot jo... 34 31. DEVICE 7. By suggesting to the soul his often relapses into the same sin which formerly he ha... 35 32. DEVICE 8. By persuading them that their estate is not good, their hearts are not upright, the... 36 33. SATAN'S DEVICES TO DESTROY & ENSNARE ALL SORTS & RANKS OF MEN IN THE WORLD 37 34. I. DEVICES AGAINST THE GREAT AND HONORABLE OF THE EARTH 38 35. DEVICE 2. By engaging them against the people of God, against those who are his jewels, his p... 39 36. II. DEVICE AGAINST THE LEARNED AND THE WISE 40 37. III. DEVICE AGAINST THE SAINTS 41 38. IV. DEVICE AGAINST POOR AND IGNORANT SOULS 42 39. FIVE MORE OF SATAN'S DEVICES 43 40. DEVICE 1. By suggesting to the soul the greatness and vileness of his sins. 44 41. DEVICE 2. By suggesting to sinners their unworthiness. 45 42. DEVICE 3. By suggesting to sinners the lack of such and such preparations and qualifications. 46 43. DEVICE 4. By suggesting to a sinner Christ's unwillingness to save. 47 44. FIVE REASONS OF THE POINT 48 45. TEN SPECIAL HELPS AND RULES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES