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NICHOL'S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., /
LINCOLN college; HONORAKY CAJiON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF 3T MARTIN's, BIRMINGHAM.
WORKS OF THOMAS BROOKS.
COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.
W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh.
JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh.
THOMAS J. CRAWFOED, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh.
D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.
ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presby- terian Church, Edinburgh.
45eneral 4SDitor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, D.D., Edinbubgh.
BY THE KEV. ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART, LIVEKPOOL.
THE GOLDEN KEY TO OPEK HIDDEN TREASURES; PAE4D1SE OPENEiJj,^ \
A TIfOflJ) IN SEASON. \ \
EDINBURGH : JAMES NICHOL.
LONDON : JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN : G. HERBERT.
I. The Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures,
The Epistle Dedicatory, ..... 3-15 Serious and Weighty Questions Clearly and Satisfactorily
Answered, . ... . . . 16-61
1. What are the special remedies, means, or helps against
cherishing or keeping up of any special or peculiar sin, either in heart or life, against the Lord, or against the light and conviction of a man's own conscience ? . 16
2. What is that faith that gives a man an interest in Christ,
and in all those blessed benefits and favours that come by Christ ? or whether that person that experiences the following particulars, may not safely, groundedly, and comfortably conclude that his faith is a true, justifying, saving faith, the faith of God's elect, and such a faith as clearly evidences a gracious estate, and will certainly bring the soul to heaven ? . . . . 49
3. Whether in the great day of the Lord, the day of general
judgment, or in the particular judgment that will pass 2ipon every soul immediately after deaih, which is the stating of the soul in an eteimal estate or condition, either of happiness or misery ; whether the sins of the saints, the follies and vanities of believers, the infirmities and enormities of sincere Christians, sliall be brought into the judgment of discussion and discovery, or no ? Whether the Lord will either in the great day of account, or in a marHs particular day of account or judgment, publicly manifest, proclaim, and make mention of the sins of his people, or no ? . . . . 52
Pleas in answer to the third question, . . .61-261
The Epistle Dedicatory, ..... 265-285 Pleas continued from ' The Golden Key,' . . . 286-414
III. A Word in Season.
A general Epistle to all suffering saints, . . . 416-448
Some words of counsel to a dear friend, . . . 449-455
The signal presence of God with his people, . . . 456-597
OPEN HIDDEN TREASURES.
The 'Golden Key' forms Part I, of, spiritually, the richest and most nurturing of Brooks's larger treatises. Part II. follows in this volume. The title-page of the former will be found below.* It is interesting to compare Brooks's * Golden Key' with the earlier work of Francis Dillingham, entitled 'A Golden Keye opening the Locke to eternall Happiness : containing seven most sweete and comfortable directions to a Christian life,' 1609, 12mo.--G,
Several great Points, that refer to the Saints present blessedness, and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions.
Here you have also The Active and Passive Obedience of Christ vindicated and improved against men of corrupt minds, d-c. Who boldly, in Pulpit and Press, contend against those glorious Truths of the Gospel.
You have farther Eleven serious singular Pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make, to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general Judgment, and of that particular Judgment, that must cer- tainly pass upon them all immediately after death, s. ,
"^l^n^^/c '^^ f "u ^^.^"^"^'i ?f Christ, is here largely proved, and im- E./°Tv ^" Gamsayers, by what names and titles soever they are distin- mpS. on^ni^T"" ^^«"g ««• Sevejal things concerning Hell, and hellish tor- mente, opened cleared and improved against all Atheists, and all others that boldly assert, that there is no Hell, but what is in us. Som^ other points^f im- Z^hlTe.^Z^lT^"''^ opened, which other Authors (so fJr as he 1^. rn^Hnn nf fll^ "^^^f ''''''' ^^"'^ '"^ ^''^^^ ^^l^^^^' ^11 tending to the confir- mation of the strong, and support, peace, comfort, settlement and satisfaction of poor, weak, doubting, trembling, staggering Christians. sa"8taction
By Tho. Brooks late Preacher of the Gospel, at Margarets-New-Fish-street.
^J'^^t S!-^°'*^°a" ^«'^«»' at the King's-Arms in the Poultrey: and at the Ship and Anchor, at the Bridg-foot, on Southwark ^I^il5.
THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
To his much honoured and worthily esteemed friend, Sir Nathaniel Herne, Knight, Sheriff of London, and Governor of the East India Company, i
Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied upon you and yours.
Sir —Much might be said, were it necessary, for the dedication of books unto persons of worth, interest, service, and honour, this having been the constant practice of the best and wisest of men in aU the ages of the world ; and therefore I need not make any farther apology for my present practice. . ^ o j j
What is written is permanent, litera scripia manet,^ and spreads itself farther by far, for time, place, and persons than the voice can reach. Augustine, writing to Volusian, saith, ' That which is writ- ten is always at hand to be read when the reader is at leisure. There are those that think— and, as they conceive, from bcripture grounds too— that the glory of the saints in heaven receives additions and increases daily, as their holy walk and faithful service when here on earth doth, after they are gone, bring forth fruit to the praise ot (xod amongst those that are left behind them. If this be so what greater encouragement can there be to write, print, preach, and to walk holily
in this world ? , , . .i. i. r