# “Get good books” by Thomas Watson

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2015/05/28/get-good-books-by-thomas-watson/
- Published: 2015-05-28T08:00:58-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Get good books in your houses. When you have not the spring near to you, then get
water into your cistern; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you 
desire, good books are cisterns that hold the waters of life in them to refresh 
you.

When David’s natural heat was taken away, they covered him with warm clothes (1 
Kings 1:1); so when you find a chillness upon your souls and your former heat begins
to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint
you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.”

–Thomas Watson, “Parting Counsels” in [_Sermons of the Great Ejection_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848711522?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1662/2012), 166.

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## Comments

### By: Angela Wittman

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2015/05/28/get-good-books-by-thomas-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-8735
- Published: 2015-05-28T09:54:57-05:00

Reblogged this on [Our Reformed Christian Heritage](https://reformedchristianheritage.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/get-good-books-by-thomas-watson/).

### By: The 3 R's Blog

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2015/05/28/get-good-books-by-thomas-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-8737
- Published: 2015-05-30T06:56:42-05:00

Reblogged this on [The Three R's Blog](https://cjts3rs.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/get-good-books-by-thomas-watson/)
and commented:
 Good thoughts from Puritan Thomas Watson posted by a fellow blogger
and good book lover at “Tolle Lege”. May you gather good books that may be a well
of water to your soul.