The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod: Annotated - Couverture souple

Brooks, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1688314628 ISBN 13 : 9781688314627

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

This book has been reprinted many times. Of the modern printings, this one is foot-noted for the numerous references Brooks makes to the classics of the Greeks and Romans and other ancients. Rather make major changes to Brooks beautiful flow of 17th century English, notes have again been added where he uses archaic words-- yet there are not so many notes as to take the reader's attention from his main discourse: how to deal with suffering and affliction in a right manner and even glory in it. [Checked on readability, the Flesch-Kincaid grade level is 7.2. Flesch reading ease is 73.5. The closer the reading ease is to 100, the easier the text is to read. The score of 73.5 is quite readable for most people. Thomas Brooks was born in 1606 and lived until 1680, his life spanning a major part of the seventeenth century. The pious Brooks, who had been born into a yeoman rural family, more than likely went to sea at an early age as a chaplain. Returning from sea, the year 1848 found him preaching at St. Thomas the Apostle church. Ejected from his pulpit in 1662, Brooks took to his pen, turning out jewels such as, "Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices," "Heaven on Earth," "The Unsearchable Riches of Christ;" this volume, and many other treatises, essays, and sermons flowed from Brook’s pen. He preached whenever he had opportunity, and left us a vast body of work by which our souls prosper. This timeless little book is one of the best ever written to solidly establish the Christian on solid ground as the trials and viccisitudes of life are encountered. Truly, it is a refreshing cordial to those facing a time of trouble. Brooks says in his Preface, "The choicest saints are born to troubles, as the sparks fly upwards, Psal. xxxiv. 19. Job v. l. Psal. lxxxviii. 3, 4. Many are the troubles of the righteous. If they were many, and not troubles, then, as it is in the pro verb, the more the happier; or if they were troubles, and not many, then the fewer the better. But God, who is infinite in wisdom, and matchless in goodness, hath ordered troubles, yea, many troubles to come crowding in upon us on every side. As our mercies, so our crosses seldom come single; they usually come treading one upon the heels of another; they are like April showers, no sooner is one over, but another comes. And yet, Christians, it is mercy, it is rich mercy, that every affliction is not an execution, that every correction is not a damnation. The higher the waters rose, the nearer Noah's ark was lifted up to heaven; the more thy afflictions are increased, the more thy heart shall be raised heaven-wards." This would make a fine gift book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1688314628
• ISBN 13: 9781688314627
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 167
• Éditeur: Roper L. B.
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