Complete Works of Thomas Brooks

# Museum Catalog Note

This is Volume I of Thomas Brooks's Complete Works, edited by Alexander Balloch Grosart and published in 1866 as part of Nichol's Series of Standard Divines. The volume contains four theological treatises: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women, The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod, and A String of Pearls. The first and most substantial work systematizes Satan's temptations into numbered categories—including presenting sin's bait while hiding consequences, disguising sin as virtue, and undermining religious devotion—with multiple prescribed remedies for each. Apples of Gold addresses young believers, arguing for early conversion through twelve reasons including mortality's uncertainty and spiritual advantages of youthful commitment. A biographical memoir precedes the treatises. All works employ the Puritan theological framework characteristic of seventeenth-century Reformed Protestant devotional literature.