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The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brooks discusses several ways of gaining assurance, everlasting happiness and blessedness. Additionally, he also covers salvation and the faith, repentance and obedience that accompanies it. Also covered in Volume 2 is the doctrine of God being our portion as being observed in three ways. First, an assertion of the Lord being our portion; second, the proof being in the words, “says my soul.”...

of his parts and wanton wit, he turned most of the Scriptures into allegories; and by the just judgment of God upon him, he foolishly understood and absurdly applied that Mat. 19:12 literally, ‘Some have made themselves chaste for the kingdom of heaven,’ and sogelded himself. And indeed he might as well have plucked out one of his eyes upon the same account, because Christ saith, ‘It is better to go to heaven with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire,’ Mat. 18:9. In all ages heretics
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