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Thomas Brooks

Birthdate: 1608
Date of death: 1680

Thomas Brooks was an English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author.

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Quotes Thomas Brooks

„Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.“

— Thomas Brooks

Men, Faith, Christ

„When Satan attempts to draw you to sin by presenting God as a God all made up of mercy, oh then reply, that though God's general mercy extend to all the works of his hand, yet his special mercy is confined to those who are divinely qualified, to those who love him and keep his commandments, to those who trust in him, that by hope hang upon him, and who fear him; and that you must be such a one here, or else you can never be happy hereafter; you must partake of his special mercy, or else eternally perish in everlasting misery, notwithstanding God's general mercy.“

— Thomas Brooks

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

God, Drawing, Love, Hope

„In private prayer we have a far greater advantage as so the exercise of our own gifts and graces and parts that we have in public…in public duties we are more passive, but in private duties we are more active. Now, the more our gifts and parts and graces are exercised, the more they are strengthened and increased. All acts strengthen habits. The more sin is acted, the more it is strengthened. And so it is with our gifts and graces; the more they are acted, the more they are strengthened.“

— Thomas Brooks

The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665

Exercises, Parting

„There are five things that God will never sell at a cheap rate -- Christ, truth, his honour, heaven, and assurance.“

— Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

God, Truth, Christ

„So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.“

— Thomas Brooks

A Mute Christian Under the Rod

Books, Reading

„There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.“

— Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

Way

„Surely it is more honourable to do great things, than to speak or read great things!…When a Christian has one eye upon his book, the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads.“

— Thomas Brooks

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Books, Reading

„True penitential confession is joined with reformation. He that does not forsake his sin, as well as confess it, forsakes the benefit of his confession. And indeed, there is no real confession of sin, where there is no real forsaking of sin. It is not enough for us to confess the sins we have committed, but we must resolve against committing again the sins we have committed.“

— Thomas Brooks

Source: Works of Thomas Brooks, pp.413-4

„Christ doth not love believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself. Now, men will give as they love: 1 Sam. 1:4, 5, ‘And Elkanah gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all his sons and daughters, portions, but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved her.’ In the Hebrew it is, ‘he gave her a gift of the face;’ that is, a great, an honourable gift. Men look upon great and honourable gifts with a sweet and cheerful countenance; so the gifts that Jesus Christ gives to believers are the gifts of the face, that is, they are the greatest gifts, the honourablest gifts, the choicest gifts, gifts fit for none but a king to give.“

— Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Love, Men, Christ, Daughters

„Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."“

— Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

Justice

„God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding.“

— Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 127.

God, Peace, Way, Understanding

„Præcepta docent, exempla movent, Precepts may instruct, but examples do persuade.“

— Thomas Brooks

London's Lamentations

„Those who live as the many, must die with the many, and go to hell with the many. The way to hell is broad and well beaten. The way to be undone forever is to do as the most do.“

— Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Way, Hell

„The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.“

— Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Men, World, Soul

„I could heartily wish that you and all others concerned in this sad loss, were more taken up in minding the happy exchange that she hath made, than with your present loss. She hath exchanged earth for heaven, a wilderness for a paradise, a prison for a palace, a house made with hands for one eternal in the heavens (2 Cor 5:1-2). She hath exchanged imperfection for perfection, sighing for singing, mourning for rejoicing, prayers for praises, the society of sinful mortals for the company of God, Christ, angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, Heb 12:22-24; an imperfect transient enjoyment of God for a more clear, full, perfect, and permanent enjoyment of God. She hath exchanged pain for ease, sickness for health, a bed of weakness for a bed of spices, a complete blessedness. She hath exchanged her brass for silver, her counters for gold, and her earthly contentments for heavenly enjoyments.“

— Thomas Brooks

A String of Pearls

Men, God, Pain, Health

„There is no way under heaven to be interested in Christ, but by believing. He that believeth shall be saved, let his sins, be ever so great; and he that believeth not shall be damned, let his sins be ever so little.“

— Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

Way, Christ

„Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory that are due to his name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. Usually, the most praying souls are the most assured souls.“

— Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

God, Soul

„You have no lease of your lives, and death is not bound to give you warning before it gives you that deadly blow that will send you to everlasting misery or everlasting felicity.“

— Thomas Brooks

The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

Death

„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

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men, God, Suffering, Evil

„Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.“

— Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 230.

Faith, Christ

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