Spurgeon gathered these sentences and sayings out of the six volumes of Thomas Brooks' works. "As a writer, Brooks scatters stars with both his hands," he wrote; "he hath dust of gold." Read more.
As a writer, Brooks scatters stars with both his hands: he hath dust of gold; in his storehouse are all manner of precious stones. So wrote C.H. Spurgeon in his preface to this book. He counted Thomas Brooks among the Puritan authors he returned to most often, and the reason is not hard to see.
Brooks' hold on readers lies partly in his subjects - practical truths at the center of the Christian life - and partly in his manner, which is direct, urgent, fervent, saturated in Scripture, and given to phrases that lodge in the memory. This is a collection of such sentences, illustrations and quaint sayings, gathered by Spurgeon out of the six-volume set of Brooks' Works, and it remains an excellent introduction to him.
