Works of Thomas Brooks: 6 Volume Set

by Thomas Brooks

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This eBook includes the full text of all the following eleven titles by Thomas Brooks:

Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

A Word in Season to Suffering Saints

A Cabinet of Choice Jewels

The Best Wine Reserved Until Last

The Privy Key of Heaven

Heaven on Earth

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Apples of Gold

The Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures

Paradise Opened

Genres: Theology, Christian Living

550 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1980

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.