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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.
Thirdly, there is no power nor policy on Earth or in 1Hell, that can deprive a Believer of an incorruptible Crown, 1 Cor. 9. 25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things, now, they do it to obtain ⟨p. 104⟩a corruptible Crown, but we an incorruptible. He alludes to the Olympic exercises; now, running and wrestling were two of the Olympic games; now, in these Olympic games the reward was only a corruptible crown, a crown made up of Laurels, or Olive-branches, or Oaken-leaves, or of Flowers and Herbs, or at the highest of Silver and Gold, which soon faded; but we run for an incorruptible Crown of glory. A man (saith Chrysostom) would dwell in this contemplation of Heaven, and be loth to come out of it. Nay (saith Augustin) a man might age himself in it, and sooner grow old than weary. 1 Pet. 1. 4. To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you. Here are super-excellent properties of the Heavenly inheritance.
Thirdly, there is no power nor policy on Earth or in 1Hell, that can deprive a Believer of an incorruptible Crown, 1 Cor. 9. 25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things, now, they do it to obtain ⟨p. 104⟩a corruptible Crown, but we an incorruptible. He alludes to the Olympick exercises; now, running and wrestling were two of the Olympick games; now, in these Olympick games the reward was only a corruptible crown, a crown made up of Laurels, or Olive-branches, or Oaken-leaves, or of Flowers and Herbs, or at the highest of Silver and Gold, which soon faded; but we run for an incorruptible Crown of glory. A man (saith Chrysostom) would dwell in this contemplation of Heaven, and be loth to come out of it. Nay (saith Augustin) a man might age himself in it, and sooner grow old than weary.