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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.
Tenthly, (If God be with us, who can be against us?) I 1answer, None, so as to hinder the springs of joy and comfort, from rising and flowing in their Souls. Psalm 71. 20. Thou which hast showed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the Earth. Verse 21. Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. The Psalmist ⟨p. 80⟩was in those desperate dangers, that he seemed to be as a man that was dead and buried, and yet he had faith enough to believe, that God would surround him with cordials, and supply him with comforts from all sides; there is no true comfort to be drawn out of the standing pools of outward sufficiences, but out of the living fountains of the all-sufficiences of the Lord Almighty. Thou shalt comfort me on every side. Psalm 94. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, (or of my careful, troubled, perplexed thoughts, as the word properly signifies) thy comforts delight my soul. As the Psalmist always found God a present help, so he always found him a present comfort in the day of troubles; God never did, nor never will want a cordial, to revive and keep up the Spirits of his people from fainting and sinking in an evil day; when the Psalmist was under many griefs, cares, fears, and perplexities of Spirit: God came in with those comforts that did delight his soul, and cheer up his Spirits. The word of the Lord is never 2more a word of comfort, nor the Spirit of the Lord is never more a Spirit of comfort, than when the Saints are in their deepest distresses, and sorest perplexities, John 14. 16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. Verse 26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name. Hudson the Martyr being at the stake, he went from under his chain, and having prayed earnestly, he was so comforted and refreshed by the Holy Spirit, that he suffered valiantly and cheerfully. The Holy Ghost is called again and again the Comforter, because his office is to work consolation in the hearts of Gods People, in all their troubles and distresses. Spiritual comfort is therefore called joy in the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost doth.