PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES
By Thomas Brooks
Banner of Truth. 253 pages. £5.75
ISBN 978-0-85151-002-6
Every so often I become an evangelist for a book I’ve just read. But usually I find I’m doing this for the latest book from the pen of Tim Keller or Julian Hardyman or Paul David Tripp — not for a book that’s been around for 350 years or so.
Then a colleague and I read Thomas Brooks’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices together and discovered that C.S. Lewis’s wonderful Screwtape Letters had been surpassed centuries before they were written. For, although Brooks lived and preached in the 17th century, he fought the same spiritual battles against sin, the world and the devil that you and I do, and his biblical wisdom and godly insights from that same battlefield leave even the insights of Lewis in the shade.
