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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.
The second Proposition is this, That the favourable, 1signal, and eminent presence of God with his People, in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, is only to be extended to his Covenant people, to those that are his People by special grace. Jer. 32. 38. And they shall be my People, and I will be their God. Verse 40. And I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Verse 41. Yea I will rejoice over them, to do them good. There are many precious promises of the Divine presence, as I have already showed, but they are all entailed upon Gods Covenant-people: We are all the People of God by Creation, both good and bad, sinners and saints, bond and free, rich and poor, high and low; and we are all the People of God by outward profession. All that do make an outward profession of God, and perform external worship to God; they are all the People of God in this sense; all the Carnal Israelites, are frequently called the People of God, as well as the spiritual Seed; thus Cain was one of Gods People as well as Abel, and Esau, as well as Jacob. Now such as are only the People of God by creation, or by profession, these are strangers to God, these are enemies 2to God, and will he be favourably present with ⟨p. 136⟩these. Such as are only the People of God by creation 3and outward profession, they are dead in trespasses and sins, and can the living God take pleasure in being among 4the dead; such are under all the threatenings of the Law, and under all the curses of the Law, even to the uttermost extent of them, such are not one moment secure; the threatenings of God and the curses of the Law 5may light upon them, when in the house, when in the field, when waking when sleeping, when alone when in company, when rejoicing when lamenting, when sick when well, when boasting when despairing, when upon the Throne when upon a sick-bed; and will God grace these with his presence? surely no. Such say to