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An Ark For All God’s Noahs

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Book Description

We live in difficult days and in trying times. This book, with its quaint yet vivid title, points us to the One in whom Christian men and women have always found the strength to persevere come what may. Taking Lamentations 3:24 as his starting-point – ‘The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him,’ – Thomas Brooks expounds the attributes of God with the aim of comforting those who have felt not only the stresses and strains of daily life but also the searing pain of loss in its various forms. God, he says, ‘is a portion that is exactly suited to the condition of the soul in its desires, needs, wants, longings and prayers. All the soul needs is found in God. There is light to enlighten the soul, wisdom to counsel the soul, power to support the soul, goodness to supply the soul, mercy to pardon the soul, beauty to delight the soul, glory to ravish the soul, and fullness to fill the soul.’

‘All true comfort and happiness is only to be found in having an all-sufficient God for your portion.’

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	Epistle Dedicatory	ix
	A MATCHLESS PORTION
	Introduction	1
	Analysis of Text and Topics	2
Part I.	What a Portion God Is
1.	Present	7
2.	Immense	8
3.	All-sufficient	13
4.	Absolute, needful, and necessary	16
5.	Pure and unmixed	20
6.	Glorious, happy, and blessed	25
7.	Peculiar	27
8.	Universal	30
9.	Safe and Secure	35
10.	Suitable	37
11.	Incomprehensible	39
12.	Inexhaustible	42
13.	Soul-Satisfying	47
14.	Permanent, indefinite, never-failing, everlasting	53
15.	Incomparable	58
Part II.	Grounds of Title unto God as a Portion
1.	Free favour and love of God	63
2.	Covenant of grace	64
3.	Marriage union	57
Part III.	Improvement of the Truth that God is a Portion
1.	Fret not on account of prosperity of the wicked	67
2.	Be content with present condition	78
3.	Those mistaken who judge saints to be unhappy	88
4.	Set not affections on earthly portions	92
5.	Be cheerful under all crosses and troubles	95
6.	Away with all expedients and compliances	99
7.	Glory in God as a portion	101
8.	Shall want nothing good	103
9.	Away with inordinate cares	108
10.	All is the believer’s	115
11.	God no hurtful portion	117
12.	Let the saints think of God as their portion	126
13.	Be not afraid to die	129
14.	Make it fully out that God is your portion; its advantages	131
	Question 1: How Shall We Know whether God Be Our Portion? Answered	147
	Question 2: How Shall We Evidence This? Answered	197
	Incitements to See that God is Our Portion	207
	How to Make God Our Portion	217
	Objections Answered	227
	Positions that May Be Useful	243

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The Works of Thomas Brooks

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:49 +0000

Book Description

Brooks’ popularity lies both in his subjects – practical truths, central to the Christian life – and in the manner of his presentation. He is ever direct, urgent, fervent, full of Scripture and able to choose words which make his sentences as memorable as melodies.

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I	London’s Lamentations	3
II	The Glorious Day Of The Saints’ Appearance	315
III	God’s Delight In The Progress Of The Upright	337
IV	Hypocrites Detected	367
V	A Believer’s Last Day His Best Day	839
VI	A Heavenly Cordial	409
VII	The Legacy Of A Dying Mother	437

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Heaven on Earth

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Endorsement

‘All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth; some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth. That saints might enjoy two heavens is the project of this book.’ — JOSEPH CARYL

Book Description

The subject of assurance is one of the most important elements in Christian experience. There is no higher privilege than to be a child of God and to know it, for assurance brings joy to worship and prayer, and provides strength and boldness to our witness. Correspondingly, failure and weakness in all these areas can often be traced back to a lack of assurance, or even false assurance. This work of Thomas Brooks, first published in 1654, deals with all of these aspects of assurance in a way that is both biblical and pastoral. Brooks ‘scatters stars with both his hands’ wrote C.H. Spurgeon. His teaching is clear, thorough and greatly needed in the present spiritual climate. Brooks both explains what true assurance is and guides the reader in how it may be fully experienced.

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	Epistle to the Saints	9
	Preface: The Nature of Assurance	14
	CHAPTER I: PROOFS THAT BELIEVERS MAY IN THIS LIFE ATTAIN UNTO A WELL-GROUNDED ASSURANCE OF THEIR EVERLASTING HAPPINESS AND BLESSEDNESS	16
	The basis of assurance	16
	The purpose of Scripture is to help believers to obtain assurance	16
	Many believers have obtained assurance	18
	God has promised assurance to his people	20
	The springs of assurance are in the saints	21
	The Spirit of God exhorts to assurance	24
	Means to be used to obtain assurance	26
	The Lord’s Supper as related to assurance	27
	The relation of assurance to rejoicing in the Lord	28
	The clarity of Scripture on the differences between the righteous and the wicked	29
	Assurance is not for Arminians	30
	CHAPTER II: WEIGHTY PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING ASSURANCE	33
	Seven reasons why God denies assurance for a time to some believers	33
	Words used in Scripture to express assurance	38
	True believers are saved even though they lack assurance	40
	Six reasons why some do not attain assurance	41
	God requires some believers to wait long for assurance	47
	Assurance may be possessed and afterwards lost	49
	Assurance is a personal matter	52
	Nine special seasons when assurance is enjoyed:
	1. At conversion	53
	2. Before engaging in hard or dangerous service	58
	3. During times of waiting	63
	4. During times of suffering	65
	5. During “hearing and receiving” times	73
	6. During times of personal afflictions	82
	7. During seasons of prayer	84
	8. Before conflicts with Satan	90
	9. After conflicts with Satan	90
	CHAPTER III: HINDRANCES AND IMPEDIMENTS THAT KEEP POOR SOULS FROM ASSURANCE; WITH THE MEANS AND HELPS TO REMOVE THOSE IMPEDIMENTS AND HINDRANCES	92
	The despairing of obtaining mercy	92
	The disputing about things too high for our thoughts	103
	The lack of self-examination	105
	The entertaining of mistaken views about God’s work of grace	107
	The grieving of the Holy Spirit by the believer	108
	The judging of spiritual matters by mere feelings	109
	The indulging of laziness and carelessness	110
	The neglect of duties	112
	The love of the world	114
	The cherishing of secret sins	116
	CHAPTER IV: MOTIVES TO PROVOKE CHRISTIANS TO BE RESTLESS TILL THEY HAVE OBTAINED A WELLGROUNDED ASSURANCE OF THEIR ETERNAL HAPPINESS AND BLESSEDNESS	126
	Eleven motives why Christians should earnestly seek after a well-grounded assurance:
	1. Many have been lost who thought they were saved	126
	2. The world is full of deceivers	127
	3. Assurance delivers from the burden of cares, fears, and doubts	129
	4. Satan labours to keep Christians from assurance	130
	5. A well-grounded assurance is of great value to a believer	132
	6. Worldlings labour hard to secure the things of this life; saints should show equal ardour for better things	134
	7. Assurance renders burdens light	135
	8. God urges Christians to get assurance	136
	9. Christians are seriously injured by the lack of assurance	137
	10. Ten advantages which accompany assurance:	139
	1) It produces heaven on earth	139
	2) It sweetens life’s changes	139
	3) It keeps the heart from desiring the world	140
	4) It assists communion with God	141
	5) It preserves from backsliding	142
	6) It produces holy boldness	142
	7) It prepares a man for death	143
	8) It makes mercies taste like mercies	145
	9) It gives vigour in Christian service	145
	10) Leads to the soul’s enjoyment of Christ	146
	11. A well-grounded assurance will keep a Christian from being deceived by counterfeits	148
	CHAPTER V: WAYS AND MEANS OF GAINING A WELL-GROUNDED ASSURANCE	150
	1. Be active in exercising grace	150
	2. Assurance is obtained by obedience	151
	3. Follow diligently the instructions of the Holy Spirit	152
	4. Be diligent in attendance upon ordinances	154
	5. Pay particular attention to the scope of God’s promises of mercy	154
	6. Six matters in which Christ’s true followers are distinguished from all others	161
	7. Seek to grow in grace	171
	8. Seek assurance when the soul is in its best frames	172
	9. Ascertain whether you have the things that accompany salvation; notably Knowledge, Faith, Repentance, Obedience, Love, Prayer, Perseverance, and Hope	173
	The things that accompany salvation: KNOWLEDGE.
	It is operative	177
	It is transforming	178
	It is experimental	180
	It is heart-affecting	183
	It is world-despising	185
	It is soul-humbling	187
	It is appropriating	189
	Knowledge has attendant graces	191
	The things that accompany salvation: FAITH.
	The objects of Faith:	194
	1. The Person of Christ	195
	2. The righteousness of Christ	195
	3. The promises of God	198
	4. The future glory	200
	The properties of Faith:	201
	1. It promotes vitality	202
	2. It grows	204
	3. It belittles the glories of the world	206
	4. It purifies the heart	207
	5. It melts the soul	210
	6. It overcomes the world	212
	Strong Faith and Weak Faith	213
	The things that accompany salvation: REPENTANCE.
	Repentance: its properties:	216
	1. It effects a change in every part of a man	216
	2. It is a turning from all sin	217
	3. It is a turning to God	218
	4. It strikes particularly at the sins to which a man was formerly most prone	220
	5. It is comprehensive in its scope	221
	6. It has appropriate attendants	224
	7. It is a continued act	224
	The things that accompany salvation: OBEDIENCE.
	1. It is hearty	226
	2. It seeks to perform all God’s will	227
	3. It flows from faith	229
	4. It is ready, free, willing, and cheerful	231
	5. It is resolute	233
	6. Its aim is the divine glory	234
	7. It is constant	234
	8. It is passive as well as active	236
	The things that accompany salvation: LOVE.
	The qualities of Love:	237
	1. It is superlative	237
	2. It is obedient	238
	3. It is sincere	239
	4. It is vehement	241
	5. It is permanent	241
	6. It is abounding	242
	7. It cannot be hid	244
	8. It delights to see the divine image in fellow-believers	248
	9. It enables the soul to receive Christ’s rebukes	252
	10. It laments over dishonours done to Christ	253
	11. It keeps the heart for Christ alone	254
	12. It delights in secret communion with Christ	255
	13. It longs for the full assurance of Christ’s love	256
	14. It enables the believer to commit his all to Christ	257
	The things that accompany salvation: PRAYER.
	The requisites of prayer as a form of divine worship	258
	Prayer betters the whole man	265
	Eight differences between the prayers of the godly and those of the ungodly	266
	The things that accompany salvation: PERSEVERANCE.
	The properties of Perseverance:	272
	1. Perseverance appertains to a holy profession	272
	2. It appertains to holy and spiritual principles	272
	3. It is an abiding in the doctrine of Christ	273
	4. It is a continuance in gracious actions	274
	The things that accompany salvation: HOPE.
	The nature of Hope	275
	Hope expects and waits patiently for promised good	276
	The properties of Hope:	279
	1. It raises the heart to live above	280
	2. It strengthens the soul against afflictions and temptations	280
	3. It makes the soul lively and active	281
	4. It gives the believer great quietness	282
	5. It causes the soul to wait patiently for delayed mercy	283
	6. It purifies the soul	284
	7. It never dies	285
	CHAPTER VI: THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A TRUE AND A COUNTERFEIT ASSURANCE, BETWEEN SOUND ASSURANCE AND PRESUMPTION	288
	A well-grounded assurance bears these following marks:
	1. It is attended by a deep admiration of God’s love and favour in Christ	288
	2. It causes the soul ever to seek a fuller enjoyment of God and Christ	289
	3. It is usually strongly assaulted by Satan	289
	4. It makes a believer bold	291
	5. It makes a believer seek the happiness of other men	292
	6. It strengthens a believer against all sin	293
	7. It is attended by love, humility, and joy	295
	8. It springs from the witness of the Holy Spirit	297
	The characteristics of the Holy Spirit’s witness:
	1. It is inward and secret	298
	2. It is gained in holy ways	299
	3. It is clear, full, and satisfying	299
	4. It is not operative in all believers	300
	5. It is a sure testimony	301
	6. It is always accompanied by the testimony of our own spirit	302
	7. It is always according to Scripture	302
	8. It is holy	303
	9. It is only bestowed on renewed hearts	304
	CHAPTER VI: ANSWERS TO SEVERAL SPECIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT ASSURANCE	306
	Nine methods whereby assurance may be strengthened and maintained	306
	Six methods whereby souls which have lost assurance may be kept from fainting	311
	Five methods whereby souls which have lost assurance may recover it	315
	Conclusion	317

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Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Book Description

Brooks treated the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present day.

Brooks lists seven reasons for writing this book. The first reason is enough…Brooks says, “Satan hath a greater influence upon men, and higher advantages over them than they think he hath, and the knowledge of his high advantage is the highway to disappoint him, and to render the soul strong in resisting, and happy in conquering.

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	Thomas Brooks – a Brief Biography	11
	The Epistle Dedicatory	15
	A Word to the Reader	21
	Introduction	25
	THE PROOF OF THE POINT	27
	SATAN’S DEVICES TO DRAW THE SOUL TO SIN
	[12 devices and their remedies]
1	By presenting the bait and hiding the hook	29
2	By painting sin with virtue’s colours	34
3	By the extenuating and lessening of sin	38
4	By showing to the soul the best men’s sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues, their sorrows, and their repentance	45
5	By presenting God to the soul as One made up all of mercy	50
6	By persuading the soul that repentance is easy and that therefore the soul need not scruple about sinning	55
7	By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin	66
8	By representing to the soul the outward mercies enjoyed by men walking in sin, and their freedom from outward miseries	70
9	By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, sorrows and sufferings that daily attend those who walk in the ways of holiness	79
10	By causing saints to compare themselves and their ways with those reputed to be worse than themselves	89
11	By polluting the souls and judgments of men with dangerous errors that lead to looseness and wickedness	92
12	By leading men to choose wicked company	99
	SATAN’S DEVICES TO KEEP SOULS FROM HOLY DUTIES, TO HINDER SOULS IN HOLY SERVICES, TO KEEP THEM OFF FROM RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES
	[8 devices and their remedies]
1	By presenting the world in such a garb as to ensnare the soul	102
2	By presenting to the soul the dangers, losses and sufferings that accompany the performance of certain religious duties	112
3	By presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing religious duties	117
4	By causing saints to draw false inferences from the blessed and glorious things that Christ has done	122
5	By presenting to view the fewness and poverty of those who hold to religious practices	127
6	By showing saints that the majority of men make light of God’s ways and walk in the ways of their own hearts	133
7	By casting in vain thoughts while the soul is seeking God or waiting on God	135
8	By tempting Christians to rest in their performances	139
	SATAN’S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION
	[8 devices and their remedies]	142
1	By causing saints to remember their sins more than their Saviour, yea, even to forget and neglect their Saviour	142
2	By causing saints to make false definitions of their graces	148
3	By causing saints to make false inferences from the cross actions of Providence	151
4	By suggesting to saints that their graces are not true, but counterfeit	154
5	By suggesting to saints that the conflict that is in them is found also in hypocrites and profane souls	162
6	By suggesting to the saint who has lost joy and comfort that his state is not good	167
7	By reminding the saint of his frequent relapses into sin formerly repented of and prayed against	171
8	By persuading saints that their state is not good nor their graces sound	176
	SATAN’S DEVICES TO DESTROY AND ENSNARE ALL SORTS AND RANKS OF MEN IN THE WORLD
	[5 devices and their remedies]
I	DEVICES AGAINST THE GREAT AND HONOURABLE OF THE EARTH
1	By causing them to seek greatness, position, riches and security	183
2	By causing them to act against the people of the Most High	190
II	DEVICE AGAINST THE LEARNED AND THE WISE	194
	By moving them to pride themselves on their parts and abilities, and to despise men of greater grace but inferior abilities	194
III	DEVICE AGAINST THE SAINTS
	By dividing them and causing them to ‘bite and devour one another’	198
IV	DEVICE AGAINST POOR AND IGNORANT SOULS
	By causing them to affect ignorance and to neglect and despise the means of knowledge	211
	APPENDIX
	TOUCHING FIVE MORE OF SATAN’S DEVICES	214
1	By suggesting to men the greatness and vileness of their sins	214
2	By suggesting to sinners their unworthiness	222
3	By suggesting to sinners their want of certain preparations and qualifications	224
4	By suggesting to sinners that Christ is unwilling to save them	228
5	By causing sinners to give more attention to the secret decrees and counsels of God than to their own duty	229
	SEVEN CHARACTERS OF FALSE TEACHERS	230
	SIX PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING SATAN AND HIS DEVICES	234
	[Five reasons of the point added]	240
	CONCLUSION – CHIEFLY, TEN SPECIAL HELPS AND RULES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES	243

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The Secret Key to Heaven

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Thomas Brooks’ Secret Key to Heaven is a manifesto for private prayer. Brooks outlines its necessity, benefits, common objections and distractions which hinder our progress in it, and encouragement and guidance for it. In a treatmeant of private prayer, Brooks enables us to see the essential character of the Christian life itself: God-centred, God-dependent, focused, and fruitful.

Book Description

‘The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies.’ This was the deeply held conviction of Thomas Brooks. As a pastor who knew his people well, he feared that many Christians did not understand the ‘necessity, excellency, and usefulness’ of private prayer, and that many lived in ‘too great a neglect of this indispensable duty.’

Focusing on our Lord’s words about ‘closet prayer’ in Matthew 6:6, Brooks supplies us with a masterful treatment of a vitally important aspect of the Christian’s life. His aim is intensely practical: ‘to preserve and keep up the power of religion and godliness both in men’s houses, hearts, and lives.’

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	Publisher’s Note	xi
	Author’s Preface	xiii
	PART ONE
	The Doctrine of the Text (Matt. 6:6) Stated and Proved	1
	PART TWO
	Twenty Arguments for Private Prayer
1:	The Most Eminent Saints Engaged in Private Prayer	7
2:	Christ Engaged in Secret Prayer	13
3:	Secret Prayer Distinguishes Sincerity from Hypocrisy	18
4:	Secret Prayer Lets Us Unbosom Ourselves before God	20
5:	Secret Duties Shall Have Open Rewards	23
6:	God Most Manifests Himself in Secret	24
7:	This Life Is the Only Time for Private Prayer	31
8:	Private Prayer’s Prevailing Power	31
9:	Private Prayer Is the Most Soul-Enriching of Duties	44
10:	Secret Prayer and Secret Sins	46
11:	Secret Prayer Delights Christ	47
12:	Only Believers Share God’s Secrets	48
13:	Private Prayer Is the Christian’s Refuge in Trouble	58
14:	God Is Omnipresent	61
15:	If We Neglect Private Prayer, God Will Not Hear Our Public Prayers	64
16:	The Times Call for Private Prayer	66
17:	Those Near to the Lord Should Engage in Secret Prayer	68
18:	Special Marks of God’s Favour	71
19:	Satan’s Enmity to Secret Prayer	72
20:	The Lord’s Secret Ones Should Engage in Secret Prayer	75
	PART THREE
	The Use and Application of the Doctrine
	The Doctrine Condemns Five Ways in Which Private Prayer Is Neglected	79
	The Doctrine Exhorts Us to Be Frequent and Constant in Private Prayer	85
	PART FOUR
	Six Objections Stated and Answered
1:	We Are Too Busy to Spare Time for Private Prayer	87
2:	As Servants, We Have No Time That We Can Call Our Own	104
3:	We Lack the Necessary Gifts and Abilities for Private Prayer	127
4:	God Knows Our Desires and Needs Whether We Pray in Private or Not	156
5:	We Lack a Convenient Place for Private Prayer	159
6:	Our Weaknesses and Infirmities Hinder Us from Private Prayer	161
	PART FIVE
	Eleven Instructions concerning Private Prayer
1:	Be Frequent in Private Prayer	183
2:	Use the Best Times and Opportunities	188
3:	Do Not Perform Closet Duties Merely to Still Your Conscience	191
4:	Do Not Trust in Closet Duties	193
5:	Put Your Heart into All Closet Duties	197
6:	Be Fervent, Warm, and Importunate with God in All Closet Duties	201
7:	Be Constant and Persevering in Closet Prayer	208
8:	Thirst and Long after Communion with God in Private Prayer	212
9:	Make the Glory of God Your Ultimate End	233
10:	Always Pray in the Name of Christ Alone	235
11:	Look for Answers to Your Closet Prayers	239
	PART SIX
	Means, Rules, and Directions for Faithful Private Prayer
1:	Beware of an Idle, Slothful Spirit	243
2:	Beware of Spending Precious Time on Small, Circumstantial Matters	248
3:	Beware of Curious Questions	249
4:	Beware of Engaging in Too Much Worldly Business	254
5:	Beware of Secret Sins	256
	Closing Advice
1:	Mourn over Neglect of Private Prayer	273
2:	Cultivate the Habit of Closet Prayer	274
3:	Keep a Diary of Closet Mercies	274
4:	Do Not Let Public Duties and Ordinances Crowd Out Private Prayer	277
5:	Love Christ with a More Inflamed Love	278
6:	Be Thoroughly Resolved in the Strength of Christ to Persevere in Closet Prayer	280
7:	Strive for a Greater Measure of the Spirit	282
8:	Be Frequent in the Serious Consideration of Eternity	284

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Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Book Description

‘As a writer, Brooks scatters stars with both his hands: he hath dust of gold; in his storehouse are all manner of precious stones.’ So wrote C.H. Spurgeon in his Preface to this book. He counted Thomas Brooks among his favourite Puritan authors, and it is not hard to see why. Brooks’ popularity lies both in his subjects – practical truths, central to the Christian life – and in the manner of his presentation. He is ever direct, urgent, fervent, full of Scripture, and able to choose words which make his sentences stick in one’s mind.

This book is a collection of sentences, illustrations, and quaint sayings from this renowned Puritan. Gathered by Spurgeon out of the 6 volume set of Brooks’s Works, it remains an excellent introduction to both the man and his writings.

Spurgeon continues, ‘Reader, thou hast here presented to thee, in a cheap and readable form, the choice sayings of one of the King’s mighties. The great divine who wrote these precious sentences was of the race of the giants. He was head and shoulders above all the people, not in his stature (like Saul), but in mind, and soul, and grace. Treasure these gems, and adorn thyself with them, by putting them into the golden setting of holy practice, which is the end the writer always aimed at. Use these “smooth stones” as David of old, and may the Lord direct them to the very forehead of thy sins, for this is the author’s main design! One of these pithy extracts may assist our meditations for a whole day, and may open up some sweet passage of Scripture to our understandings, and perhaps some brief sentence may stick in the sinner’s conscience, like an arrow from the bow of God. So prays the servant of Christ and his church.’ C.H. Spurgeon”.

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V1	Memoir of Brooks by A. B. Grosart
	Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices
	Apples of Gold
	The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod
	A String of Pearls
V2	An Ark for All God’s Noahs
	The Privy Key of Heaven
	Heaven on Earth
V3	The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
	A Cabinet of Jewels
V4	The Crown and Glory of Christianity
	or, Holiness the Only Way to Happiness
	(58 sermons on Hebrews 12:14)
V5	The Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures
	Paradise Opened
	A Word in Season
V6	London’s Lamentations
	The Glorious Day of the Saints’ Appearance
	God’s Delight in the Progress of the Upright
	Hypocrites Detected
	A Believer’s Last Day His Best Day
	A Heavenly Cordial
	The Legacy of a Dying Mother
	With a glossary and indexes of texts expounded, persons referred to and topics discussed in all six volumes

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Repent and Believe!

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Endorsement

‘To read the work of a Puritan doctor of the soul is to enter a rich world of spiritual theology to feed the mind, heart-searching analysis to probe the conscience, Christ-centred grace to transform the heart, and wise counsel to direct the life. This series of Pocket Puritans provides all this in miniature, but also in abundance.’– SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON

Book Description

The Puritans believed in the reality of the Devil and in his deadly antagonism to the souls of men. To keep us in our lost and condemned state he employs two devices against us: he persuades us that repentance is easy and believing in Christ is impossible. Brooks masterfully uncovers Satan’s devices and skilfully prescribes the Bible’s remedies against them.

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United We Stand

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Endorsement

Book Description

In his constant warfare against the church the devil loves nothing better than to sow the seeds of discord and division. The Puritan Thomas Brooks lamented, ‘Our own woeful experience is too great a proof of this.’ How can we counter this devilish ploy? Brooks outlines a twelve-point action plan and teaches us that United We Stand, Divided We Fall is a fitting motto for every Christian soldier.

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Remedios Preciosos- Contra Las Artimañas De Santanás

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Book Description

La extraña oposición que sufrí de parte de Santanás realiza un mayor esfuerzo, al saber que Satanás lucha ferozmente por evitar que salgan a la luz aquellas cosas que pueden sacudir y derrotar su reino de tinieblas, engrandeciendo el Reino y la gloria del Señor Jesucristo en las almas y vidas de los hijos de los hombres {…}’. Esta es una de las siete razones por las que escribi el presente libro citadas por el autor, Thomas Brooks, en su prefacio.

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