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.