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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 fourth proposition is this, that all Saints have 1not a like measure of the presence of the Lord in their troubles and trials, in their sorrows and sufferings; some have more, and others have less of this presence of God in an evil day. 1. All Saints have not a like work ⟨p. 139⟩to do in an evil day. 2. All Saints have not alike temptations to withstand in an evil day. 3. All Saints have not alike testimony to give in an evil day. 4. All Saints have not alike burdens to bear in an evil day. 5. All Saints have 2not alike things to suffer in an evil day. There are greater and there are lesser troubles, distresses and dangers; and there are ordinary troubles, distresses and dangers, and there are extraordinary troubles, distresses and dangers: Now where the trouble, the distress, the danger is ordinary, there an ordinary presence of God may suffice; but 3where the trouble, the distress, the danger is extraordinary, there the People of God shall have an extraordinary presence of God with them, as you may see in the three Children, Daniel, the Apostles, the primitive Christians, and the Book of Martyrs. Some troubles, distresses and dangers are but of a short continuance, as Athanasius said of his banishment, Nubecula est, citò transibit, It is but a little cloud, and will quickly be gone. Others are of a longer continuance, and accordingly God suits his presence. All Saints have not a like outward succours, supplies, reliefs, comforts, &c. in their troubles, distresses and dangers; some have a shelter, a friend at hand, others have not; some have many friends, and others may cry out with him, O my friends, I have never a friend! some are surrounded with outward comforts, and others have not one, not one penny, not one friend, not one days work, &c. in a storm some have good Harbours at hand, others are near the rocks, and in danger of being swallowed up in the sands: so here, and accordingly God lets out more or less of his presence among his People, some need more of his presence than others do, and accordingly God dispenseth it among his Saints. But,
The fourth proposition is this, that all Saints have