Thirdly, Satan hath his devices to destroy the saints; and one great device that he hath to destroy the saints is, By working them first to be strange [estranged], and then to divide, and then to be bitter and jealous, and then to bite and devour one another,' Gal. v. 15. Our own woful experience is too great a proof of this. The Israelites in Egypt did not more vex one another than Christians in these days have done, which occasioned a deadly consumption to fall upon some,
Now the remedies against this device are these :
Remedy (1). The first remedy against this device of Satan is, To dwell more upon one another's graces than upon one another's weaknesses and infirmities. It is sad to consider that saints should have many eyes to behold one another's infirmities, and not one eye to see each other's graces, that they should use spectacles to behold one another's weaknesses, rather than looking-glasses to behold one another's graces.
Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, in Works, Nichol edition, vol. 1, p. 128.
