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Thomas Brooks (1608 - 1680). English Puritan preacher and author born in Glastonbury, Somerset. Likely educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he entered ministry during the English Civil War, possibly serving as a chaplain in the Parliamentary navy. By 1648, he preached in London, becoming rector of St. Margaret’s, New Fish Street, in 1652, where he ministered through the Great Plague and Great Fire of 1666. A nonconformist, he was ejected in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity but continued preaching privately. Brooks wrote over a dozen works, including Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1652) and The Mute Christian Under the Rod, blending practical theology with vivid illustrations. Known for his warm, accessible style, he influenced Puritan spirituality, emphasizing repentance and divine sovereignty. Married twice—first to Martha Burgess in 1640, with whom he had four sons, then to Patience Cartwright—he faced personal loss but remained steadfast. His sermons drew crowds, and his books, reprinted centuries later, shaped Reformed thought. Brooks’ legacy endures through digital archives and reprints for modern readers.
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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the profound nature of the covenant of grace, which is God's merciful agreement to save sinful humanity. He explains that this covenant is rooted in God's free grace and mercy, providing believers with a new heart, the assurance of His goodness, and the promise of His presence. Brooks highlights the covenant's ability to meet the deepest needs of distressed sinners, offering them comfort, cleansing, and the strength to resist sin. He encourages listeners to recognize the covenant as a divine storehouse filled with everything they require for spiritual sustenance and peace. Ultimately, the covenant of grace reveals God's infinite love and care for His people.
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The Covenant of Grace
"I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear Me, so that they will never turn away from Me." Jeremiah 32:40 The covenant of grace is that agreement which God has made with sinful man out of His own free mercy and grace, wherein He undertakes to save fallen man. All mankind would have been eternally lost—had He not of his own free grace and mercy made such an agreement with sinful man. This covenant is called a covenant of grace, because it flows from the free grace and mercy of God. There was nothing outside of God, nor anything in God—but His free mercy and grace—which moved Him to enter into covenant with poor sinners. The covenant of grace consists in these things: (1.) that God will be our God; (2.) that He will give us a new heart, a new spirit; (3.) that He will not turn away His face from doing of us good; (4.) that He will put His fear into our hearts; (5.) that He will cleanse us from all our filthiness and idols; (6.) that He will rejoice over us to do us good; (7.) that we shall be His people; (8.) that we shall fear Him forever; (9.) that we shall walk in His statutes; (10.) that we shall not depart from Him. Oh what head can conceive, or what tongue can express that infinite counsel, wisdom, love, care and tenderness, which is in the covenant of grace—so as it may best suit to all the needs, and straits, and necessities, and miseries, and desires, and longings of poor sinners' souls. The covenant of grace is so well ordered by the unsearchable wisdom of God, that you may find in it . . . remedies to cure all your diseases, and cordials to comfort you against all your faintings, and a spiritual armory to arm you against all your enemies, namely, the world, the flesh, and the devil. Do you, O distressed sinner, need a loving God, a compassionate God, a reconciled God, a sin-pardoning God? Here you may find Him, in the covenant of grace. Do you need a Christ to counsel you by His wisdom, and to clothe you with His righteousness, and to adorn you with His grace? Here you may find Him in the covenant of grace. Do you need the Spirit to enlighten you, to teach you, to convince you, to awaken you, to lead you, to cleanse you, to cheer you? Here you may find Him in the covenant of grace. Do you need grace, or peace, or rest, or quiet, or contentment, or comfort, or satisfaction? Here you may find it in the covenant of grace. God has laid into the covenant of grace, as into a storehouse, all those things that sinners or saints can need.
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Thomas Brooks (1608 - 1680). English Puritan preacher and author born in Glastonbury, Somerset. Likely educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he entered ministry during the English Civil War, possibly serving as a chaplain in the Parliamentary navy. By 1648, he preached in London, becoming rector of St. Margaret’s, New Fish Street, in 1652, where he ministered through the Great Plague and Great Fire of 1666. A nonconformist, he was ejected in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity but continued preaching privately. Brooks wrote over a dozen works, including Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1652) and The Mute Christian Under the Rod, blending practical theology with vivid illustrations. Known for his warm, accessible style, he influenced Puritan spirituality, emphasizing repentance and divine sovereignty. Married twice—first to Martha Burgess in 1640, with whom he had four sons, then to Patience Cartwright—he faced personal loss but remained steadfast. His sermons drew crowds, and his books, reprinted centuries later, shaped Reformed thought. Brooks’ legacy endures through digital archives and reprints for modern readers.