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Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks
British Politician

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
English Theologian

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Assurance is a jewel of that worth, a pearl of that price, that he who will have it must work, and sweat, and weep, and wait to obtain it.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

Heaven on Earth, or a Serious Discourse touching a well-grounded Assurance of Mens Everlasting Happiness.

Say to thy soul, O my soul! If thou wilt sin with the multitude, thou must be shut out of heaven with the multitude, thou must be cast down to hell with the multitude.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

In Christ are riches of Justification; in Christ are riches of sanctification, riches of consolation, and riches of glorification...Christ's riches are like the eternal springs of the earth, that cannot dry up, but are and shall be diffused by his Spirit and gospel, until his whole house be filled with them.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Ah, beloved, have not you need to improve your time, who have much work to do in a short time: your souls to save, a God to honour, a Christ to exalt, a hell to escape, a race to run, a crown to win, temptations to withstand, corruptions to conquer, afflictions to bear, mercies to improve, and your generation to serve.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Many are now dropped into hell that have formerly presumed of their going to heaven.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

God has ends and designs in giving evil men outward mercies and present rest from sorrows and sufferings that cause saints to sigh.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)