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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.
grace differs very little from glory, the one is the seed, the other the flower; grace is glory militant, and glory is grace triumphant; grace is a beginning of glory, it may be compared to the golden chain in Homer, whose top was fastened to the chair of Jupiter; grace and glory are individual, and inseparable; the Psalmist joins them together, 1The Lord will give grace and glory. Grace is a living spring that never faileth, a seed that never dyeth, a jewel which never consumeth, a Sun that never setteth; all other gifts of whatsoever kind, worth or excellency, are but like a cloud soon dispelled, a vessel of clay soon broken, a sandy foundation soon sunk; grace is more excellent than gold: gold draws the heart from God, grace draws the heart to God; gold doth but enrich the mortal part, the ignoble part, but grace enriches the Angelical part, the noble part; gold perishes, but grace perseveres; if grace were not permanent, it could not be excellent; 2if grace were not durable, it could not be pleasurable; if grace were not lasting, yea everlasting, it could not be a Christians comfort in life; his support in death and his glorious crown in the great day of account; grace in it self is permanent, incorruptible; it fadeth not away; it is a birth that shall never dye; it is a plant of renown that shall never wither, but grow up more and more till grace be turned into glory: upon which account one of the Ancients had rather have S. Paul's coat 3with his heavenly graces, then the purple of Kings with their Kingdoms: No troubles, no distresses, no dangers, can deprive us of our graces, can rob us of our spiritual treasure. But,
grace differs very little from glory, the one is the seed, the other the flower; grace is glory militant, and glory is grace triumphant; grace is a beginning of glory, it may be compared to the golden chain in Homer, whose top was fastned to the chair of Jupiter; grace and glory are individual, and inseparable; the Psalmist joyns them together, 1The Lord will give grace and glory. Grace is a living spring that never faileth, a seed that never dyeth, a jewel which never consumeth, a Sun that never setteth; all other gifts of whatsoever kind, worth or excellency, are but like a cloud soon dispelled, a vessel of clay soon broken, a sandy foundation soon sunk; grace is more excellent than gold: gold draws the heart from God, grace draws the heart to God; gold doth but enrich the mortal part, the ignoble part, but grace enriches the Angelical part, the noble part; gold perishes, but grace perseveres; if grace were not permanent, it could not be excellent;