'The strange opposition I met with from Satan, in the study of the following discourse, hath put an edge upon my spirit, knowing that Satan strives mightily to keep these things from seeing the light that tend eminently to shake and break his kingdom of darkness, and to lift up the kingdom and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the soul and lives of the children of men...'
This is one of the seven reasons for writing this book which the author Thomas Brooks gives in his preface.
Among the publishers' reasons for this reprint is the fact, noted by George Smeaton, that the best Christian authors of former times treated the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way 'greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present day.' William Grimshaw, in the eighteenth century, was not the first nor the last to learn this lesson from Brooks' 'Precious Remedies', and our modern age greatly needs the message which is thrust back into preeminence in these pages.
