Category: Thomas Brooks
“Today, today!”
Sleep not in harvest-time; do not trifle away your golden seasons; you have much work to do in a short…
Sense & Carnal Reason VS. Spiritual Reason: Take heed of making sense and feeling a judge of your condition.
Take heed of making sense and feeling a judge of your condition. Though there is nothing more dangerous—yet there is…
Weak Christians are apt to make sense and feeling, the judge of their spiritual estates and conditions.
And, therefore, upon every turn they are apt to judge themselves miserable, and to conclude that they have no grace,…
Weak Christians
Weak Christians have eyes to behold their discouragements—but none to see their encouragements; they look more upon their corruption than…
Strong in Grace: A piece of gold above a thousand pennies.
A soul who is strong in grace, that is high in its spiritual enjoyments, prefers one good word from God,…
Dwell: the peacock, looking upon his black feet, lets fall his plumes.
The best men dwell more upon their worser part, their ignoble part—than they do upon their noble part, their better…
A Lion in a Cage is a Lion Still
True grace makes all glorious within and without. ‘The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought…
Comfort is Not of the Being—But of the Wellbeing, of a Christian.
DEVICE 6. By suggesting to the soul, that surely his estate is not good, because he cannot joy and rejoice…
The Gift of the Season: God’s Goodness
Where sin aboundeth, there grace doth much more abound. Rom 5:20 If the soul groans under the guilt of sin,…
SATAN’S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING & UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION
Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will…
Little Faith: Tears Their Drink, Sorrow Their Food
Oh how does Satan labor with might and main to work men to make false definitions of FAITH! Some he…
Throne and Footstool
It is recorded of Lazarus, that after his resurrection from the dead, he was never seen to laugh, his thoughts…
Avoid the occasions of sin, and the least appearance of evil: We must shun and be shy of the very show and shadow of sin, and every savor or suspicion of sin.
Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thess 5:22 Epiphanius says that in the old law, when any dead body…
That other saints have chosen to suffer the worst of torments, rather than commit the least sin.
So as you may see in Daniel and his companions, that would rather choose to burn, and be cast to…
To Sin Against Mercy
To render good for evil is divine, to render good for good is human, to render evil for evil is brutish; but to…
God’s Hand vs God’s Heart
That no man knows how the heart of God stands towards a person, by his outward blessings to that person….
Repentance is a Continued Act
Anselm confesses, that all his life was either damnable for sin committed, or unprofitable for good omitted; and at last…
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
It is the greatest judgment in the world to be left to sin. O unhappy man! when God leaves you…
It is not hasty reading—but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.
It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey—but her abiding for a time upon the flower,…
The Devices of Satan
Beloved, Satan being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to…
Adversity & Prosperity
Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand. Thomas Brooks