Satan’s Work

November 22, 2006 at 11:54 am (Assurance of Salvation, Puritans, Quotes)

Thomas Brooks wrote a wonderful book entitled Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. The whole is eminently worth our attention. One of Satan’s devices is to suggest to Christians that their graces are not true, but counterfeit. “Satan doth not labour more mightily to persuade hypocrites that their graces are true when they are counterfeit, than he doth to persuade precious souls that their graces are counterfeit, when indeed they are true” (pg. 99). Brooks goes on to define various kinds of grace, reckoning that knowledge of such graces (and reception from God of such grace) is the best remedy against Satan’s device.

1 Comment

  1. theologian said,

    November 22, 2006 at 4:10 pm

    Excellent point. I’ve always thought of him persuading hypocrites that there grace is true, but not so much on persuading genuine believers that their grace is false.

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