... closeness of His comforting presence in order that we will seek His unique counsel all the more diligently (2 Chron.32:31). Often He will raise up oppressive human adversaries to test us and ultimately to drive us to His bosom (Jdg.3:1-4; 2 Sam.16:5-14; Ps.59; 1 Kgs.11:14-25). Sometimes He will plague us with seemingly insurmountable difficulties to wean ... Remedies Against Satan's Devices' by the seventeenth century Puritan, Thomas Brooks. Among the demonic devices by which the Christian will be afflicted, he lists: 'The drawing of the soul to sin; the keeping of souls from holy dutie...

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