# “Remember this” by Thomas Brooks

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- Published: 2019-04-26T12:00:56-05:00
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“My desires to you are:

> That you would make it your business to study Christ, His Word, your own hearts,
> Satan’s plots, and eternity, more than ever;
> That ye would endeavour more to be inwardly sincere than outwardly glorious: to
> live, than to have a name to live;
> That ye would labour with all your might to be thankful under mercies, and faithful
> in your places, and humble under divine appearances, and fruitful under precious
> ordinances;
> That as your means and mercies are greater than others’ so your account before
> God may not prove a worse than others’;
> That ye would pray for me, who am not worthy to be named among the saints, that
> I may be a precious instrument in the hand of Christ to bring in many souls unto
> Him, and to build up those that are brought in in their most holy faith; and ‘
> that utterance may be given to me, that I may make known all the will of God,’(
> Eph. 6:19);
> That I may be sincere, faithful, frequent, fervent, and constant in the work of
> the Lord, and that my labour be not in vain in the Lord; that my labours may be
> accepted in the Lord and His saints, and I may daily see the travail of my soul.

But, above all, pray for me:

> That I may more and more find the power and sweet of those things upon my own 
> heart, that I give out to you and others;
> That my soul be so visited with strength from on high, that I may live up fully
> and constantly to those truths that I hold forth to the world;
> And that I may be both in life and doctrine ‘a burning and a shining light,’ that
> so, when the Lord Jesus shall appear, ‘I may receive a crown of glory which He
> shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but to all that love His appearance.’

_For a close, remember this_: your life is short, your duties many, your assistance
great, and your reward sure. Therefore, faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways 
of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.

I shall now take leave of you, when my heart hath by my hand subscribed, that I 
am, your loving pastor under Christ, according to all pastoral affections and engagements
in our dearest Lord,

-Thomas Brooks”

–Thomas Brooks, [_The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 1_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),
Ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1666/2001), 6-7.

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