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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.
When the hearts of the Saints are ready to faint and sink, then the Lord will employ all his power for their support, bearing them up as it were with both hands. He hath put his left hand under my head as a pillow to rest upon, and with his right hand he hath embraced me, as a loving Husband 1cherisheth his sick Wife, and doth her all the help he can. The best of Saints would fail, and faint in a day of trouble, if Christ did not put to both his hands to keep them up. In days of sorrow Gods People stands in need of a whole Christ to support them and uphold them. My head sinks, O my Beloved, put thy left hand softer than pillows of roses, firmer than pillars of marble, under it; my heart faileth and dyeth, O let thy right hand embrace me. But,
When the hearts of the Saints are ready to faint and sink, then the Lord will employ all his power for their support, bearing them up as it were with both hands. He hath put his left hand under my head as a pillow to rest upon, and with his right hand he hath embraced me, as a loving Husband 1cherisheth his sick Wife, and doth her all the help he can. The best of Saints would fail, and faint in a day of trouble, if Christ did not put to both his hands to keep them up. In dayes of sorrow Gods People stands in need of a whole Christ to support them and uphold them. My head sinks, O my Beloved, put thy left hand softer than pillowes of roses, firmer than pillars of marable, under it; my heart faileth and dyeth, O let thy right hand embrace me. But,
The fourth proposition is this, that all Saints have 1