There is an absolutely fascinating little Puritan book, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks. It can be found at: https://puritanlibrary.com/
There are both original language and modern language versions available. It is very easy to read; you can go anywhere in the book and find treasures there. It does not require “front-to-back” reading.
It lists Satan’s devices and Puritan remedies. For example:
DEVICE 5. To present God to the soul as one made up all of mercy.
Oh! says Satan, you need not make such a matter of sin, you need not
be so 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…
Remedy (1). The first remedy is, seriously to consider, that it is
the greatest judgment in the world to be left to sin, upon
any pretense whatever. O unhappy man! when God leaves you to
yourself, and does not resist you in your sins. Woe, woe to him at
whose sins God does wink. When God lets the way to hell be a
smooth and pleasant way, that is hell on this side hell…
Ah Lord! this mercy! humbly beg, that whatever you give me up to,
you will not give me up to the ways of my own heart; if you will give
me up to be afflicted, or tempted, or reproached, I will patiently sit
down, and say, it is the Lord; let him do with me what seems good in
his own eyes. Do anything with me, lay what burden you will upon
me, so you do not give me up to the ways of my own heart.
Augustine says, 'It is a human thing to fall into sin, devilish to
persevere therein, and divine to rise from it. Deliver me, O Lord, from
that evil man—myself!
If you have even a few moments, this book is worth the investment.
There are both original language and modern language versions available. It is very easy to read; you can go anywhere in the book and find treasures there. It does not require “front-to-back” reading.
It lists Satan’s devices and Puritan remedies. For example:
DEVICE 5. To present God to the soul as one made up all of mercy.
Oh! says Satan, you need not make such a matter of sin, you need not
be so 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…
Remedy (1). The first remedy is, seriously to consider, that it is
the greatest judgment in the world to be left to sin, upon
any pretense whatever. O unhappy man! when God leaves you to
yourself, and does not resist you in your sins. Woe, woe to him at
whose sins God does wink. When God lets the way to hell be a
smooth and pleasant way, that is hell on this side hell…
Ah Lord! this mercy! humbly beg, that whatever you give me up to,
you will not give me up to the ways of my own heart; if you will give
me up to be afflicted, or tempted, or reproached, I will patiently sit
down, and say, it is the Lord; let him do with me what seems good in
his own eyes. Do anything with me, lay what burden you will upon
me, so you do not give me up to the ways of my own heart.
Augustine says, 'It is a human thing to fall into sin, devilish to
persevere therein, and divine to rise from it. Deliver me, O Lord, from
that evil man—myself!
If you have even a few moments, this book is worth the investment.