Thomas Brooks Quotes
1608–1680 England
Thomas Brooks (1608 – September 27, 1680) was an English, non-conformist, Puritan preacher and author.
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Præcepta docent, exempla movent, Precepts may instruct, but examples do persuade.
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.
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.
Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.
Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial.
Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade.
He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.
The Privie Key of Heaven (1665)
There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan - than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness.
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.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must he ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.
There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.
Oh that you would arise in Christ's strength, and do what possibly you can for God, though you cannot do what you would and what you should!
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.
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.
Sin in the conscience, is like Jonah in a ship, which causeth such a tempest, that the conscience is like a troubled sea, whose waters cannot rest, or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there.
A Cabinet of Jewels (1669)
The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart. (page 87)
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.
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.
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.