Sin
Worthy Devices - Seventh Device and Remedies
I haven’t posted one of these in a while, but here is the subsequent chapter’s thoughts that I have noted.
Device (7) - By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin. Saith Satan, ‘You may walk by the harlot’s door though you won’t go into the harlot’s bed; you may [...]
Worthy Lessons… Sixth Device and Remedies
This is the second part of quotations from this long chapter. Below is the sixth Device retyped and the third and following Remedies:
Device (6) - By persuading the soul that the work of repentance is an easy work, and that therefore the soul need not make such a matter of sin. [...]
Worthy Lessons… Sixth Device and Remedies
Device (6) - By persuading the soul that the work of repentance is an easy work, and that therefore the soul need not make such a matter of sin. Why! Suppose you do sin, saith Satan, it is no such difficult thing to return, and confess, and be sorrowful, and beg [...]
Worthy Lessons…Fifth Device and Remedies
This next look at Device and Remedies from Brooks concentrates on the ways Satan can convince believers to trivialize and excuse our sin by abusing God’s mercy in order to do what we want.
Device (5) - To present God to the soul as one made up all of mercy. Oh! [...]
Worthy Lessons… Fourth Device and Remedies
Device (4) - By presenting to the soul the best men’s sins, and by hiding from the soul their virtues; by showing the soul their sins, and by hiding from the soul their sorrows and repentance; as by setting before the soul the adultery of David, the pride of Hezekiah, the impatience of Job, the [...]
Worthy Lessons… Third Device and Remedies
This is a really long chapter, so I think I’ll just go for it with the quotes:
Device (3) - By extenuating and lessoning of sin. Ah! saith Satan, it is but a little pride, a little wordliness, a little uncleanliness, a little drunkenness, etc. As Lot said of Zoar, ‘It is but [...]
Worthy Lessons… Second Device and Remedies
This second Device of Satan as laid out by Brooks makes so much sense to me. It didn’t at one time, but looking back I can see so many ways that Satan has tried in my life to pull me into sin by masking a temptation with something “good.” He couples a sin [...]
Worthy Lessons… First Device and Remedies
In this post I want to look at the very first Device from Brooks’ book and lay out some quotations concerning its Remedies. I cannot find them anywhere online, which is probably for the better, since I will have to hand-type them and in so doing be able to reflect on them more.
Device [...]
Worthy Lessons… Thomas Brooks: Devices, & Remedies
Thomas Brooks has become one of my best friends in recent months. This great man of God is one of the mighty men of Puritan preachers who lived for the Lord in the 1600’s. His heart bleeds Scripture, and his writing style is animated and sobering. Reading his words in Precious Remedies [...]
Worthy Lessons from the Battlefield
Today I am on my way home from our last family vacation, and I am excited about getting settled at home, knowing Shepherd’s birth is so near. I have so much that I want to do in the next few weeks; one of them is to write the thoughts about sin in a series [...]