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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.
And as singular prophecies so choice, and precious promises speak out the Saints growth in grace take a taste of some of them. But the path of the Just, is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the 1perfect day. The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. They shall go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree, be shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our God, in old age they shall be fat and flourishing. I have read of an Old-man, who being asked, whether he grew in grace? Answered, I believe I do, for God hath promised that in old age his children should be fat and flourishing. So Isa. 46. 3. Hearken unto me O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel which are born by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb. Verse 4. And even to your old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made and I will bear, even I will carry and will deliver you. Zach. 12. 8. And he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God, as the Angel of the Lord before them. Hosea 14. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the Lilly, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. Verse 6. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. Verse 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine, the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Malach. 4. 2. But unto you that fear my Name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings, and ye shall go forth and grow up as the calves of the stall. Psalm 1. 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the […] of waters, that bringeth forth ⟨p. 112⟩