Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

"God is as just as He is merciful."

"God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed."

"Sin which men account small brings Gods great wrath on men."

"The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart. (page 87)"

"The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater."

"God has ends and designs in giving evil men outward mercies and present rest from sorrows and sufferings that cause saints to sigh."

"Ah! How many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ, and yet betray Christ; that in their words profess him, but in their works deny him; that bow their knee to him, and yet in their hearts despise him; that call him Jesus, and yet will not obey him for their Lord (from: A Word To The Reader)"

"Sins against Gods mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon mens heads and hearts. Mercy is Gods Alpha, justice is His Omega."

"When Satan attempts to draw you to sin by presenting God as a God all made up of mercy, oh then reply, that though Gods general mercy extend to all the works of his hand, yet his special mercy is confined to those who are divinely qualified, to those who love him and keep his commandments, to those who trust in him, that by hope hang upon him, and who fear him; and that you must be such a one here, or else you can never be happy hereafter; you must partake of his special mercy, or else eternally perish in everlasting misery, notwithstanding Gods general mercy. (page 44)"

"There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan - than to argue from Gods mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness."

"Afflictions, they are but as a dark entry into your Fathers house; they are but as a dirty lane to a royal palace. Now, tell me, souls, whether it be not very great madness to shun the ways of holiness, and to walk in the ways of wickedness, because of those afflictions which attend the ways of holiness."

"Satan, being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to a devil, is so full of malice and envy that he will leave no means unattempted, whereby he may make all others eternally miserable with himself."