A Word in Season to Suffering Saints (eBook)

by Thomas Brooks

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In A Word in Season to Suffering Saints, the English Puritan Thomas Brooks offers a theological masterpiece wrapped in pastoral tenderness. This is no shallow encouragement or theoretical treatise; it is a furnace-forged, Christ-centered balm written for those walking through the valley of affliction — whether they suffer under persecution, sickness, spiritual darkness, or any number of trials that press the soul into despair. Brooks writes not as one who merely knows the doctrine of suffering, but as a seasoned shepherd who has walked with the suffering and wept with them in the trenches.

The modern edition preserves the rich theology and piercing insights of Brooks while making his message clear to the modern reader. Every paragraph breathes Scripture, and every page beckons the afflicted soul to lift its eyes toward the ever-present Savior. Brooks anchors his message in the unshakable truth that God is most eminently present with His people when they are in their deepest distresses.

He walks the reader through profound meditations on the presence of God — not merely His general or providential presence, but His favorable, comforting, and covenantal nearness in the darkest of nights. Drawing from Paul’s sufferings, Joseph’s trials, Daniel’s lions’ den, and the fire-walking faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Brooks demonstrates that God does not abandon His people in suffering but instead stoops to strengthen them, teach them, uphold them, and glorify Himself in them.

This is a book that will fortify the faint-hearted and ignite the flame of endurance in those growing weary. Brooks does not offer pity without purpose — he arms believers with reasons to hope, to trust, and to rejoice even in suffering. His pages are filled with hard truths made sweet by grace: that suffering is not a mark of God’s absence, but often the clearest evidence of His fatherly hand; that the presence of affliction often accompanies the presence of Christ; and that the path to glory is stained with tears but paved by the sovereignty and goodness of God.

Whether you are in the storm, preparing for it, or walking with others through it, A Word in Season to Suffering Saints is exactly what its title claims: a divine word — timeless, tender, and triumphant — spoken directly into the trials of the saints. This is soul-medicine of the rarest and richest kind.

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Table of Contents 

I. The Lord stood at my side and gave me strength

II. It is God's favorable, special, and eminent presence with his people, which makes them persevere in an evil day: 

III. What are the reasons why God will be favorably with his people in their greatest troubles

Application

Ten Inferences

Ten Exhortations

What Means Should We Use that We may Enjoy the Gracious Presence of the Lord

Comfort and Consolation

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Joy

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1 Chronicles

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Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

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Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

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Jeremiah

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Ezekiel

Daniel

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Habakkuk

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Zechariah

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