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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.
Thirteenthly, [If God be with us, who can be against us?] I answer none, so as to hinder us from being hid, secured, guarded, and protected by God in an evil day, or in a day of greatest trouble, distress, or danger. Jer. 39. 11. Now Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, gave charge concerning Jeremiah, to Neburazadan the Captain of the Guard, saying: Verse 12. Take him, and look well to him, [Heb. Set thine eyes upon him] and do him no harm, but do unto him, even as he shall say unto thee. Here you shall see the admirable power, wisdom, and goodness of God, inclining the heart of this great Monarch & Conqueror to provide for the Prophets safety and security, he that was a dreadful scourge to punish the wicked, is made by God the deliverer and preserver of the Prophet. In the 12 Verse you have the Kings Royal Commission to the Captain of his Guard, to be as kind to him as tender of him, and to carry it as courteously to him, even as the Prophet himself should desire: Look well to him, do him no harm, but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. Let him have all the content, all the satisfaction, and all the accommodation that himself shall require. Jer. 15. 11. The Lord said, Verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction. Heb. If I do not cause, &c. A defective speech in the nature of an oath, as if God had said, Let me not be deemed a God of my word, let me not be accounted true, let none reckon me faithful in my promise, if I don't turn his sufferings into his advantage, and save him from danger in the midst of danger: If in the time of the enemies invasion 1I be not a wall of fire about him, if in the time of public calamity I don't secure him; never trust me for a God more: If he don't find more favour at the hand of ⟨p. 91⟩his enemies than he hath formerly found among his own 2People, never own me for a God more. Verse 20. I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Verse 21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. God engages himself to protect him against all the might & malice of his most terrible enemies; and though he should fall into their hands, yet he would deliver him out of their hands.