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A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse…
A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favourable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favorable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I know Caesar told Metellus, that he could as easily take away his life, as bid it be done; but these were only bravado's, for that is a Royalty which belongs to God only (To whom belong the issues 1of death;) or the goings out from death, that is deliverances from death and deadly dangers. It is an allusion to one that keepeth a passage or a door, that is God hath all the ways which lead out from death in his own keeping. Christ hath the keys of death, the sole 2dominion and disposal of it; the Lord knows how to deliver his People from the most desperate and deadly dangers, he can deliver them out of the mouth of the ⟨p. 63⟩Lion, he can pull them out of the jaws of death, and so secure them from all harm or hurt, none can be so against the People of God as to harm their souls, as to hurt their happiness: But
I know Caesar told Metellus, that he could as easily take away his life, as bid it be done; but these were only bravado's, for that is a Royalty which belongs to God only (To whom belong the issues 1of death;) or the goings out from death, that is deliverances from death and deadly dangers. It is an allusion to one that keepeth a passage or a door, that is God hath all the wayes which lead out from death in his own keeping. Christ hath the keys of death, the sole 2dominion and disposal of it; the Lord knows how to deliver his People from the most desperate and deadly dangers, he can deliver them out of the mouth of the ⟨p. 63⟩Lion, he can pull them out of the jaws of death, and so secure them from all harm or hurt, none can be so against the People of God as to harm their souls, as to hurt their happiness: But