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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.
God loves to comfort his People, when all their outward comforts fail them. Gods comforts are not only sweet, but seasonable; he never comes too soon, nor never stays too long. If one drop of the joy of the Holy Ghost should fall into Hell, it would swallow up all the torments of Hell, saith Austin. The joy of the Holy Ghost will certainly swallow up all the troubles and sufferings that we meet with in a way of righteousness. None have 1been more Divinely cheerful and merry than the Saints have been under their greatest sufferings. John Noyes took up a faggot at the fire, and kissed it, saying, Blessed be the time, that ever I was born to come to this preferment. When they fastened Alice Driver to the stake to be burnt, never did neck-kerchief (said she with a cheerful countenance) become me so well as this chain. Mr. Bradford put off his cap and thanked God, when the Keepers wife brought him word that he was to be burnt on the morrow. Mr. Taylor fetched a frisk, when he was come near the place where he was to suffer. Henry and John (two Augustin Monks) being the first that were burnt in Germany; and Mr. Rogers the first that was burnt in Queen Mary's days, did all sing in the flames. Thus you see, that it is not the greatest troubles, nor the deepest distresses, nor the most deadly dangers that can hinder ⟨p. 85⟩the joy of the Lord, from overflowing the soul. But,
God loves to comfort his People, when all their outward comforts fail them. Gods comforts are not only sweet, but seasonable; he never comes too soon, nor never stays too long. If one drop of the joy of the Holy Ghost should fall into Hell, it would swallow up all the torments of Hell, saith Austin. The joy of the Holy Ghost will certainly swallow up all the troubles and sufferings that we meet with in a way of righteousness. None have 1been more Divinely cheerful and merry than the Saints have been under their greatest sufferings. John Noyes took up a faggot at the fire, and kissed it, saying, Blessed be the time, that ever I was born to come to this preferment. When they fastned Alice Driver to the stake to be burnt, never did neck-kerchief (said she with a cheerful countenance) become me so well as this chain. Mr. Bradford put off his cap and thanked God, when the Keepers wife brought him word that he was to be burnt on the morrow. Mr. Taylor fetcht a frisk, when he was come near the place where he was to suffer. Henry and John (two Augustin Monks) being the first that were burnt in Germany; and Mr. Rogers the first that was burnt in Queen Mary's dayes, did all sing in the flames. Thus you see, that it is not the greatest troubles, nor the deepest distresses, nor the most deadly dangers that can hinder