The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, vol. 4
Overview
Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks delves into Hebrews 12:14, including the necessity, excellency, rarity, beauty, and glory of holiness. In addition, Brooks also provides seven positions concerning holiness, which “may be of singular use for the preventing of some objections and mistakes, and for the giving of satisfaction, especially to such in whom the streams of holiness runs low, and who are still a-lamenting and mourning under the imperfections of their holiness.”
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- Provides seven positions concerning holiness
- Contains an Epistle Dedicatory
- Includes an analysis of texts and topics
Top Highlights
“so a reviling tongue discovers a base rotten heart.1” (Page 319)
“To be a philosopher, saith Plato, is to know God, to be in love with God, and to imitate God. So say I, to be a holy person is to know a holy Christ, to be in love with a holy Christ, and to imitate the virtues of a holy Christ.” (Page 129)
“God, that hath made a promise to late repentance, hath made no promise of late repentance; and though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.” (Page 196)
“‘Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.’” (Page 35)
“brighter, and grow better and better, and holier and holier” (Page 439)
- Title: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, vol. 4
- Author: Thomas Brooks
- Publisher: Edinburgh
- Publication Date: 1866
- Pages: 514
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) was an English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author. In 1625, he started his college studies at Emmanuel College and by 1640 he was licensed as a preacher. At Emmanuel College he was preceded by religious and colonial leader Thomas Hooker, John Cotton who was a principal among the New England Puritan ministers, and Thomas Shepard, an American Puritan minister and a significant figure in early colonial New England. The topics he covers and the way in which they are presented make his books ones to remember and are given in a thorough and passionate way. An associate of Brooks said: “He had a body of divinity in his head and the power of it in his heart.” From 1648 to 1651, Brooks ministered at the church of St. Thomas the Apostle in London and frequently preached in Parliament. Thomas Brooks was buried in Bunhill Fields, which is London’s famous nonconformist cemetery.