A Believer's Last Day His Best Day

by Thomas Brooks

A Believer’s Last Day was originally preached as a funeral sermon. In his unique descriptive style, filled with illustrations from Scripture and antiquity, Brooks encourages all to consider death. His call to unbelievers is that they would repent while still in this day of grace and flee to Christ for salvation. His encouragement for believers everywhere is that they would realize that death is not their enemy, but a friend to escort them into the untold wonders of God’s presence. There we shall enter into not only a blessed place, but holy company, worshipful service, and spiritual rest. Thus we can look forward to our dying day as our best day ever lived.

90 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 9, 2010

About the author

Little is known about Thomas Brooks as a man, other than can be ascertained from his many writings. Born, probably of well-to-do parents, in 1608, Brooks entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1625. He was licensed as a preacher of the gospel by 1640 at the latest. Before that date he seems to have spent a number of years at sea, probably as a chaplain with the fleet. After the Civil War, Brooks became minister at Thomas Apostle s, London, and was sufficiently renowned to be chosen as preacher before the House of Commons on 26 December, 1648. Three or four years later he moved to St Margaret s, Fish-street Hill, London, but encountered considerable opposition as he refused baptism and the Lord s Supper to those clearly unworthy of such privileges. The following years were filled with written as well as spoken ministry. In 1662 he fell victim to the notorious Act of Uniformity, but he appears to have remained in his parish and to have preached the Word as opportunity offered. Treatises continued to flow from his agile pen. In 1677 or 1678 he married for the second time, 'she spring-young, he winter-old'. Two years later he went home to his Lord.