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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.
(If God be with us, who can be against us?) I answer, Secondly, None can be so against us, as to prevail 1over us; the Gates of hell may fight against us, but the Gates of hell cannot prevail against us: Christ is the Captain of your Salvation, God hath made him General of the Field, and therefore you may be sure that he will stand by you, and bring you off with honour; you need never fear having the day, who have Christ your Captain for your second; though your persecutors are as so many roaring Lions, yet Christ who is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, will make you victorious over 2them all. In all storms and tempests the Church will stand fast, because it stands upon a rock. God is on Zions side, and the Enemies of Zion must first prevail against Zions God: Before they can prevail over Zion her self, Zions God will be a wall of fire about her, and 3therefore Zions Enemies shall never prevail over her: Were Zions shelter stones, these might be battered; were it walls of lead, these might be melted; were it a defence of waters, these might be dried up; were it garrisons of mighty men, these might be scattered; were it engines of war, these might be defeated; were it trenches, these might be stopped; were it bulwarks, these might be overthrown: But Zion is guarded with a wall of fire round about her, and therefore all her opposers can never prevail over her: The Enemies of Zion 4are weak Enemies, they are infatuated Enemies, they are conquered Enemies, they are limited Enemies, they are chained Enemies, they are cursed Enemies, and they are naked Enemies, and therefore they shall never be prevalent Enemies over Zion Pharaoh followed the 5Israelites, but he and his mighty men were drowned, and Israel delivered, for God was with them. Saul 6hunted David as a Partridge i• the Mountains, but Saul ⟨p. 64⟩