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Says, Satan, You may walk by the harlot´s door though you won't go into the harlot´s bed; you may sit and sup with the drunkard, though you won't be drunk with the drunkard; you may look upon Jezebel's beauty, you may play and toy with Delilah, though you do not commit wickedness with the one or other; you may with Achan handle the golden wedge, though you do not steal the golden wedge. P.42. Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan Devices by Thomas Brooks, P. 42.

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, says Satan, it is no such difficult thing to return, and confess, and be sorrowful, and beg pardon, and cry, ‘Lord, have mercy upon me!’ and if you do but this, God will forgive your debt, and pardon your sins, and save your souls. By this device Satan draws many a soul to sin, and makes many millions of soul servants of sin, or rather slaves to sin. P.34. Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan´s Device by Thomas Brooks, P. 34.

Oh! says Satan, you need not make such a matter of sin, you need not be fearful of sin, not so unwilling to sin; for God is a God of mercy, a God full of mercy, a God that delights in mercy, a God that is ready to show mercy, a God that is never weary of showing mercy, a God more prone to pardon his people than punish his people; and therefore he will not take advantage against the soul; and why then, says Satan, should you make such a matter of sin? p. 29 Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan´s Devices By Thomas Brooks - P. 29.

By presenting to the soul the best man'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 drunkenness of Noah, the blasphemy of Peter, etc., and by hiding from the soul the tears, the sighs, the groans, the meltings, the humblings, and repentings of these precious souls. Source: Precious Remedies Agains Satan´s Devices By Thomas Brooks, Pag - 25,26.

Ah! Says Satan, it is but a little pride, a little worldliness, a little uncleanness, a little drunkenness, etc. As Lot said of Zoar, “It is a little one, and my soul shall live” (Gen. 19:20). Alas! says Satan, it is but a very little sin that you stick so at. You may commit it without any danger to your soul. It is but a little one; you may commit it, and yet your soul shall live. Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan´s Devices, By Thomas Brooks - Pag. 21.

Satan knows that if he would present sin in its own nature and dress, the soul would rather fly from it than yield to it; and therefore he presents it unto us, not in its own proper colors  - but painted and gilded over with the name and show of virtue, that we may the more easily be overcome by it, and take the more pleasure in committing of it. PRIDE, he presents to the soul under the name and notion of neatness and cleanliness; and COVETOUSNESS (which the apostle condemns for idolatry) to be but good business; and DRUNKENNESS to be good fellowship, and RIOTOUSNESS under the name and notion of liberality, and WANTONNESS as a trick of youth. Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan´s Devices - Thomas Brooks - Pag. 18.

Satan´s first device to draw the soul into sin is, to present the bait - and hide the hook; to present the golden cup - and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by yielding to sin - and to hide from soul the wrath and misery that will certainly follow the committing of sin. By this device he deceived our first parents, “And serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die - for God does know, that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and you shall be as gods, knowing the good and evil” (Gen. 3:4-5). Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods! Here is the bait, the sweet, the pleasure, the profit. Oh - but he hides the hook - the shame, the wrath, and the loss that would certainly follow! There is an opening of the eyes of the mind to contemplation and joy - and there is an opening of the eyes of the body to shame and confusion. He promises them the former - but intends the latte...