# “Pure good” by Thomas Brooks

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- Published: 2022-04-25T16:00:03-05:00
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“**Remedy (7).** The seventh remedy against this device of Satan is, wisely to consider,
_That as there is nothing in Christ to discourage the greatest sinners from believing
in Him, so there is everything in Christ that may encourage the greatest sinners
to believe on Him, to rest and lean upon Him for all happiness and blessedness, _(**
Cant. 1:3**)_. _

If you look upon His nature, His disposition, His names, His titles, His offices
as king, priest, and prophet, you will find nothing to discourage the greatest sinners
from believing in Him, but many things to encourage the greatest sinners to receive
Him, to believe on Him.

Christ is the greatest good, the choicest good, the chiefest good, the most suitable
good, the most necessary good. He is a pure good, a real good, a total good, an 
eternal good, and a soul-satisfying good, (**Rev. 3:17-18**).

Sinners, are you _poor_? Christ hath gold to enrich you.

Are you _naked_? Christ hath royal robes, He hath white raiment to clothe you.

Are you _blind_? Christ hath eye-salve to enlighten you.

Are you _hungry_? Christ will be manna to feed you.

Are you _thirsty_? He will be a well of living water to refresh you.

Are you _wounded_? He hath a balm under His wings to heal you.

Are you _sick_? He is a physician to cure you.

Are you _prisoners_? He hath laid down a ransom for you.

Ah, sinners! Tell me, tell me, is there anything in Christ to keep you off from 
believing? _No_.

Is there not everything in Christ that may encourage you to believe in Him? _Yes_.

Oh, then, believe in Him, and then, ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall 
be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool,’ (**
Isa. 1:18**).

Nay, then, your iniquities shall be forgotten as well as forgiven, they shall be
remembered no more. God will cast them behind His back, He will throw them into 
the bottom of the sea, (**Isa. 43:25, 38:17, Micah 7:19**).”

–Thomas Brooks, “[Precious Remedies](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
in [_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), 1: 143-
144.

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