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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.
Secondly, here is the end for which the Lord stood by him, assisted; strengthened, and delivered him, viz. 1That he might preach the Gospel to the Nations. That he might have more time, and further opportunity, to spread abroad the everlasting Gospel among the Gentiles, whose Apostle he was. Rome at this time, was ⟨p. 4⟩the Queen of the World, and in its most flourishing condition, people from all parts of the World flocked to Rome. Now when they should hear and see Paul's prudence, courage, constancy and boldness, in professing of Christ, and in preaching and professing the Gospel; even before that grand Tyrant, that monster of mankind Nero, they could not but be wrought upon, and the fame of the glorious Gospel could not but by this means be spread all the World over.
Secondly, here is the end for which the Lord stood by him, assisted; strengthned, and delivered him, viz. 1That he might preach the Gospel to the Nations. That he might have more time, and further opportunity, to spread abroad the everlasting Gospel among the Gentiles, whose Apostle he was. Rome at this time, was ⟨p. 4⟩the Queen of the World, and in its most flourishing condition, people from all parts of the World flockt to Rome. Now when they should hear and see Paul's prudence, courage, constancy and boldness, in professing of Christ, and in preaching and professing the Gospel; even before that grand Tyrant, that monster of mankind Nero, they could not but be wrought upon, and the fame of the glorious Gospel could not but by this means be spread all the World over.