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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 depth of God's wrath against sin, illustrated by the extreme suffering inflicted upon His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. He argues that while God has shown His hatred for sin through various judgments throughout history, the ultimate demonstration of this hatred is seen in the crucifixion of Christ, where all the weight of sin's curse was placed upon Him. Brooks compares this act to a father punishing his innocent son, highlighting the unimaginable severity of God's justice and the love behind it. The sermon calls believers to recognize the gravity of sin and the immense sacrifice made for their salvation.
The Sword of His Pure, Infinite, and Incensed Wrath
To see God thrust the sword of His pure, infinite, and incensed wrath through the very heart of His dearest Son, notwithstanding all His supplications, prayers, tears, and strong cries—is the highest manifestation of the Lord's hatred and indignation of sin—which ever was, or ever will be! It is true God revealed his great hatred against sin . . . by turning Adam out of paradise, and by casting the angels down to hell, and by drowning the old world, and by raining hell out of heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and by the various and dreadful judgments which He has been a-pouring forth upon the world in all ages. But all this hatred is but an emblem of hatred, compared to that hatred which God manifested against sin in causing the whole curse to meet upon our crucified Lord. It is true God reveals His hatred of sin by those endless, easeless, and remediless torments, which He inflicts upon devils and damned spirits. But this is no hatred—compared to that hatred against sin, which God revealed when He opened all the floodgates of His envenomed wrath upon His Son—His own Son, His only Son, His Son who always pleased Him, His Son who never offended Him. Suppose you saw a father who had but one son—such a son in whom he always delighted, and by whom he had never been provoked. Now suppose you should you see this father inflicting the most intensified pains and punishments, tortures and torments, calamities and miseries upon this, his dearest son. Would you not wonder at the cause of the father's exercising such amazing, such matchless severity, fury and cruelty upon his only beloved son? Now cast your eye upon the actings of God the Father towards Jesus Christ, and you will find that He has inflicted more and greater torments upon the Son of His dearest love, than all mortals ever have or could inflict upon others. God made all the penalties and sufferings that were due to us—to fall upon Jesus Christ. God Himself inflicted upon dear Jesus whatever was requisite to the satisfying of His justice, to the obtaining of pardon, and to the saving of all His elect!
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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.