Jack McBride’s Reviews > Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices > Status Update

"Where one thousand are destroyed by the world's frowns, ten thousand are destroyed by the world's smiles...The honours, splendour & all the glory of this world, are but sweet poisons, that will much endanger us...Tell me, you that say all things under the sun are vanity, if you do really believe what you say, why do you spend more thoughts and time on the world, than you do on Christ, heaven & your immortal souls?"

Device #9:
"By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, reproaches, sorrows, and sufferings that do daily attend those that walk in the ways of holiness."

Remedy #2:
"Socrates said of his enemies, 'They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me.' So afflictions may kill us, but they cannot hurt is; they may take away my life, but they cannot take away my God, my Christ, my crown."

"That a man is indeed, which he is in temptation."

One of those quotes you have to meditate upon...

"Every sin strikes at the honour of God, the being of God, the glory of God, the heart of Christ, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of a man's conscience; and therefore a soul truly penitent strikes at all, hates all, conflicts with all, and will labour to draw strength from a crucified Christ to crucify all."

Dang.

"Every sin strikes at the honour of God, the being of God, the glory of God, the heart of Christ, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of a man's conscience; and therefore a soul truly penitent strikes at all, hates all, conflicts with all, and will labour to draw strength from a crucified Christ to crucify all."

Dang.

Satan tempts us to 'little sins' (Device 3):

Remedy 5: "...we must choose rather to suffer the worst of torments that men and devils can invent and inflict, than to commit the least of sin whereby God should be dishonoured"

Remedy 7: "consider, that there is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction; and this appears as clear as the sun, by the severe dealing of God the Father with his beloved Son"

"Remember, it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian."