A29709:200
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.
Sixthly, if the Lord be not signally present with you, under all you troubles and deep distresses, 1why do you not cast off prayer and neglect hearing, and forsake the assembling of your selves together, and turn your backs upon the Table of the Lord, and take your leaves of closet-duties? But, seventhly, if the Lord be not signally present with you, under your great troubles and deep distresses, why don't you say, with Pharaoh, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice? 2And with the King of Israel, Behold this evil is of the Lord, and why should I wait for the Lord any longer? Or with that Noble Pagan, If the Lord would make windows in Heaven, might this thing be? Or with Saul, why don't you run to a Witch? Or with Ahab, why don't you sell your selves to work evil in the sight of the Lord? Or with Ahaz, trespass most when you are distressed most? Why don't you fret, and faint, and lye in the streets as a wild Bull, full of the fury of the Lord? Why don't ⟨p. 142⟩you grope for the wall, and stumble at noon-day, and roar all like Bears? But, eighthly, if the Lord be not signally present with you in your greatest troubles and deepest distresses, why do you with Moses, prefer suffering before 3sinning, and Christs reproaches before Egypt's treasures? Why do you scruple the sinning of your selves out of your 4sorrows? Why do you look upon sin as your greatest burden? Why are you so tender in the point of transgression, and so stout in resistance of the most pleasing temptation? But, ninthly, if the Lord be not signally 5with you in your great troubles and deep distresses, why do you set so high a price upon those that have much of the presence of God with them in their troubles and trials? Why do you look upon them as more excellent than their Neighbours? yea as such worthies, of whom this world is no ways worthy? But, tenthly and lastly, 6