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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.
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 1as the Garden of Eden, before it and behind it a desolate wilderness, and this the Lord points at as a wonder, Joel 1. 2. Hear this ye old men (who can talk of dear years) hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your Fathers? that which the Palmer-worm hath left, hath the cater pillars eaten. When God begins in a way of judgment, he makes an end, he makes the decays of nature ⟨p. 83⟩excessive and violent; and yet Habakkuk will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of his salvation. In his resolution you have the first particle (although) Verse 17. Now this particle is an act of forecast, these miseries may befall us; And in the 18. Verse you have the particle (yet) & that's an act of preparation against these miseries. That particle (although) forecasts the misery and that particle (yet) forelays the remedy; he foresees sorrows in the first, and he provides against them in the second, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation.
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, cattel 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