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“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.”

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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

“Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yes, and which is more, when the author is not.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Books

“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.”

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Heaven On Earth, 1654

Waiting

“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God

“You are wise, and know how to apply it.”

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

“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.”

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The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

God , Soul , Hell , Affliction

“An excellent master is always better than an excellent law. Let your laws be ever so good, if the lawmakers are bad, all will come to nothing.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Law

“Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.”

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The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

“So as you may see in Daniel and his companions, that would rather choose to burn, and be cast to the lions—than they would bow to the idol which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. When this 'slight offense', in the world's account, and a hot fiery furnace stood in competition, that they must either fall into sin, or be cast into the fiery furnace—such was their tenderness of the honor and glory of God, and their hatred and indignation against sin, that they would rather burn than sin!”

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

God , World

“Ah, souls, you can easily sin as the saints—but can you repent with the saints? Many can sin with David and Peter, that cannot repent with David and Peter—and so must perish forever!”

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Soul

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

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God , Evil

“Satan, being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to a devil, is so full of malice and envy that he will leave no means unattempted, whereby he may make all others eternally miserable with himself.”

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Angels , Hell , Light , Envy

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

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Way

“Assurance is a jewel worth waiting for.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Waiting

“Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.”

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

“He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 531.

“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.”

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A Cabinet of Jewels

Death , Business

“Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent.”

Thomas Brooks

The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

Men , World , Time