The Apostle Paul and his team were not ignorant of Satan's devices.
Thomas Brooks (1608-1680), an English Puritan, wrote Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (first published 1652) as a meditation upon (2 Corinthians 2:11).
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. (2 Corinthians 2:11)
Precious Remedies...is a book that is structured around various devices of Satan and remedies to consider. As in 2 Co 2:11, we ought not to be ignorant of the devices and lies used to promote sin and evil.
Content headings include the following. They are a reminder that Satan's devices continue to be effective:
Satan's devices to draw the soul to sin...
"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles (or schemes or devices) of the devil" (Ephesians 6:11).
Thomas Brooks (1608-1680), an English Puritan, wrote Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (first published 1652) as a meditation upon (2 Corinthians 2:11).
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. (2 Corinthians 2:11)
Precious Remedies...is a book that is structured around various devices of Satan and remedies to consider. As in 2 Co 2:11, we ought not to be ignorant of the devices and lies used to promote sin and evil.
Content headings include the following. They are a reminder that Satan's devices continue to be effective:
Satan's devices to draw the soul to sin...
- ...To present the bait and hide the hook
- ...By painting sin with virtue's colors
- ...By extenuating and lessening of sin
- ...By presenting to the soul the best men's sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues
- ...Presenting God to the soul as one made up all of mercy
- ...By persuading the soul that the work of repentance is easy
- ...By presenting to the soul the crosses, the losses, reproaches, sorrows and sufferings that daily attend those that walk in the ways of holiness
- ...By working them to be frequently in comparing themselves and their ways with those that are reputed to be worse than themselves
- ...By polluting and defiling the souls and judgments of men with such dangerous errors that do in their proper tendency tend to carry the souls of men to all looseness and wickedness
"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles (or schemes or devices) of the devil" (Ephesians 6:11).