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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.
Sixthly, (If God be with us, who can be against us?) §6I answer, None; as to hinder our communion and fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit. 1 John 1. 3. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1Mans summum bonum stands in his Communion with God, as Scripture and experience evidences. A Man whose soul is conversant with God, shall find more pleasure in a desert, in a den, in a dungeon, in a fiery furnace, yea, and in the valley of the shadow of death, than in the Palace of a Prince. There is a sweet and intimate Communion which Believers have with God; hence they are said to walk with God, Genes. 5. 24. cap. 6. 9. and to talk with God, as Moses frequently did, and to dwell in God, 1 John 4. 15. And to sup with God, Rev. 3. 20. And to lodge with God, Cant. 7. 11. The nearness of this fellowship which we have with the Father, is represented by a gradation of allusions in Scripture, all which do excellently illustrate this truth. There is some kind of participation that a Servant hath with his Master, yet greater is that which one Friend hath with another, but yet greater is that which a Son hath with the Father, but greatest of all is that which the Bride hath with the Bridegroom. Now in all these relations we stand to the Father; we are his Servants and he is our Lord, Exod 12. 7. We are his friends, John 15. 14, 15. Jam. 2. 23. And he is our friend, Cant. 5. 1. an able friend, a sure friend, a faithful friend, a close friend, a constant friend. Plutarch's reasoning is good ([Greek or Hebrew]) Friends have all things in common: But God is our Friend; Ergo we