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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.
Thirdly, another print of Divine displeasure in the scarcity threatened is, that it is a national famine, a general famine, an overspreading famine, usually if one part of the Land suffers scarcity, other parts abound with plenty; but when God calls for a famine, he turns a whole Land into a desert, into a barren wilderness: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon 1languisheth; these were the richest soil of all the Country, yet these were parched up, and fruitless by his displeasure, and yet for all this Habakkuk will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of his salvation. But,
Thirdly, another print of Divine displeasure in the scarcity threatned is, that it is a national famine, a general famine, an overspreading famine, usually if one part of the Land suffers scarcity, other parts abound with plenty; but when God calls for a famine, he turns a whole Land into a desart, into a barren wilderness: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon 1languisheth; these were the richest soyl of all the Country, yet these were parched up, and fruitless by his displeasure, and yet for all this Habakkuk will rejoyce in the Lord, and joy in the God of his salvation. But,
Fourthly, another print of Divine displeasure is this, that the Lord makes it an universal scarcity-upon all kind of foods, and supports of life; here is the staff of bread broken, and the herds and flocks fail, and the refreshing of the wine press, the seed and the vine, and the figtree and the olive-tree, all become fruitless; such a desolation is more than ordinary, usually when one commodity fails, another abounds; if corn be dear, cattle will be cheap, that weather oft times, that hinders one kind of grain, helps another: but here God blasts all the helps of the nature. Therefore God compares his judgments to a fire that burns all before it. The Land is