A29709:117
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.
Eighthly, (If God •e with us, who can be against us?) §8I answer, None, so as to deprive us of the sweet Testimony of our renewed consciences, 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our rejoicing (or boasting) is this the testimony of our conscience, 1that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youward. They were in great and pressing troubles in Asia, Verse the 8. and yet they boasted in the testimony of their consciences; they were under a Sentence of death in themselves, Verse 9: and yet gloried in the testimony of their consciences. Joy of conscience is the greatest joy, as trouble of conscience is the greatest trouble: ⟨p. 75⟩when conscience bears its testimony with us, and for us, how full of joy is the soul, even in the midst of the deepest sorrows, and greatest sufferings! Conscientia pura semper secura, a good conscience hath sure confidence, and he that hath it, sits Noah like —mediis tranquillus in undis:
Eightly, (If God •e with us, who can be against us?) §8I answer, None, so as to deprive us of the sweet Testimonie of our renewed consciences, 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our rejoycing (or boasting) is this the testimony of our conscience, 1that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youward. They were in great and pressing troubles in Asia, Verse the 8. and yet they boasted in the testimony of their consciences; they were under a Sentence of death in themselves, Verse 9: and yet gloried in the testimony of their consciences. Joy of conscience is the greatest joy, as trouble of conscience is the greatest trouble: