"You have no lease of your lives, and death is not bound to give you warning before it gives you that deadly blow that will send you to everlasting misery or everlasting felicity."
About Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) was an English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author.
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