"For we are not ignorant of his devices" (2 Corinthians 2:11). Few books have done more to arm Christians against temptation than this one. Thomas Brooks, a Puritan pastor in London, sets out the devices Satan uses to draw the soul into sin, to keep it from holy duties, to keep it doubting, and to destroy men of every rank. For each one he gives Scripture's remedies, plainly, warmly and with a pastor's knowledge of the human heart. This edition is set from Brooks's own second edition (1653, "corrected and enlarged"), with the spelling and punctuation modernized and his words kept. His margin notes are footnotes, the Greek and Hebrew the old transcriptions lost is restored, and the whole text has been checked against the first edition of 1652 and Grosart's edition of 1866.