The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 1

J. Nichol, 1866

THE PREFACE XVXix	xv

Appendix to Memoir Xxxviiilxxxii	xxxviii

xiv	xli

Epistle Dedicatory	3

Obj Most men give liberty to themselves aud walk in ways more	4

A Table shewing the principal things in this Treatise	10

Secondly As Satan hath his several devices to draw souls	63

In the third place is shewed the several devices Satan hath	91

1 You must labour to acquaint yourselves with the Scripture	235

2 If you would be good betimes then you must know	241

3 If you would be good betimes then you must remember	250

CHAPTER VIII	261

Obj The last I shall mention is That God is a God of mercy	273

APPENDIX	279

THE MUTE CHRISTIAN UNDER THE SMARTING ROD	286

What doth a prudent a gracious a holy silence include	298

The fifth device that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad	104

The seventh device that Satan hath to keep poor souls in	110

In the fourth place is shewed the several ways and devices	114

First By working them to make it their business to seek	123

Fourthly Satan hath his devices to destroy poor ignorant	136

Lastly several sweet and profitable uses of the point from 157164	157

The Stationer to the Reader	165

Epistle Dedicatory 169174	169

The explication of the words from 175178	175

CHAPTER III	199

CHAPTER IV	203

It is just with God to reserve the dregs of his wrath for them	211

CHAPTER V	220

Take heed of putting the day of death afar off from	226

If you would be good betimes then you must take heed	232

Eight reasons why Christians must be mute and silent	313

Use This truth looks sourly upon five sorts of persons	323

The Lord hath smitten me in my nearest and dearest	346

Oh but my afflictions my troubles have been long	354

Oh but my afflictions are greater than other mens	364

Oh but God hath deserted me he hath forsaken	372

Quest But what are the reasons that God doth so delay	387

Quest What are the means that may help persons to be silent	393

The Epistle Dedicatory	401

Doct That God reserves the best and greatest favours and blessings	410

4 It is a peculiar rest	417

Fifthly They shall enjoy perfection of grace in heaven and that	424

Eight reasons why God has reserved the best and greatest things	437

Twenty motives or considerations to work Christians to	463

Title	The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 1 Nichol's series of standard divines Nichol's series of standard divines. Puritan period The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart
Author	Thomas Brooks
Editor	Alexander Balloch Grosart
Publisher	J. Nichol, 1866
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	22 Aug 2008
ISBN	0404011233, 9780404011239

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