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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.
That though these which he here rehearseth, consist of a certain number, yet every one as a General hath special Troops under it: As when he saith Tribulation, he saith, imprisonments, bonds, slanders, banishments, &c. Shall tribulation, distress, persecution? &c. No: They are blessed which endure these ⟨p. 66⟩1things. Shall famine? He which feeds on Christ, shall never perish for hunger. Shall nakedness? Christs righteousness is my clothing; I shall willingly follow him even naked, who when he was clothed with infinite glory as with a garment▪ was content to be born naked, and to be stripped on the Cross for my sake. Shall peril? I know the hardest. Shall the sword? Christ is to me in life and death advantage. But,
That though these which he here rehcarseth, consist of a certain number, yet every one as a General hath special Troops under it: As when he saith Tribulation, he saith, imsprisonments, bonds, slanders, banishments, &c. Shall tribulation, distress, persecution? &c. No: They are blessed which endure these ⟨p. 66⟩1things. Shall famine? He which feeds on Christ, shall never perish for hunger. Shall nakedness? Christs righteousness is my cloathing; I shall willingly follow him even naked, who when he was cloathed with infinit glory as with a garment▪ was content to be born naked, and to be stript on the Cross for my sake. Shall peril? I know the hardest. Shall the sword? Christ is to me in life and death advantage. But,