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EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL 1682 EDITION!!!

17th century book on Satan

Some quotes from the book:

"Beloved, Satan being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to a devil, is so full of malice and envy that he will leave no means unattempted, whereby he may make all others eternally miserable with himself."

"If it be not strong upon they heart to practice what thou readest, to what end dost thou read?"

"…those sins which we are apt to account small, have brought upon men the greatest wrath of God."

"A soul given up to sin is a soul ripe for hell, a soul posting to destruction."

"There is no solid joy, nor lasting peace, nor pure comfort, that attends sinners in their sinful ways."

 

 

Remedies Against 

SATAN'S 

Devices

 

Published:

1682

 

Precious Remedies Against SATAN'S Devices

by
BROOKS, THOMAS.

Publisher: LONDON Printed for John Hancock MDCLXXXII (1682).
 "Treats the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way 'Greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present day."
Beautifully rebound in period goat skin brown leather with blind embossed lettering on spine and a scull on the front board. 5 raised bands on spine.

Size: 4 1/8" x 6 3/8" tall. 376 plus 10 pages of advertisement. There are two 17th century  woodcuts. One appears to show a worshiper in the front of animal-goat fire sacrifice and second woodcut on the end of the book shows Satan casting the spell on a person.  Since book was issued without woodcuts these have been added  by one of the previous owners. The front illustration page has some loss to the edges. . There is a poradic, elegant ex owner's inscriptions and notes thought the book. The edges of the pages are browned. This book gives a fascinating view into Puritan obsessiveness with Satan and biblical demonology