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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.
Thirdly, Will the Lord be signally present with his 1People, in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers; then from hence you may see the weakness, madness, sottishness, and folly of all such as 2make opposition against the Saints; that affront, injure, and make head against those that have the presence of the great God in the midst of them. O Sirs! the weakness of God is stronger than Men. What then is the strength of God? 1 Cor. 10. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? Ah who knows the power of his 3anger! It is such that none of the Potentates of the world, who set themselves against the Saints, can avert or avoid, avoid or abide: That God is a mighty God, the Scriptures do abundantly evidence, and it appears also in the Epithet, that is added unto Ell-, which is Gibbor, importing that he is a God of prevailing might. By Daniel he is called Ell-Elim, the mighty of mighties. Now what folly and madness is it for Dust and Ashes, for crawling Worms, to make head against a mighty God; yea an Almighty God, who can curse them, and crush 4them with a word of his mouth. 2 Chron. 32. 7. Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him, for there be more with us than with him. Verse 8. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. The King of Assyria was at that time the greatest Monarch in the World, and the most formidable Enemy the Church had, yet the Divine presence was a sovereign Antidote to expel all base slavish fears, that might arise in any of their hearts, concerning his greatness, power, or multitude. What was that great multitude that was with the King of Assyria, to that innumerable Company of Angels that was 5with Hezekiah? And what was an arm of flesh to Gods supreme Sovereignty; that had this proud Prince in chains, and that put a hook in his nose, and a bridle in his lips, and cut off his great Army by the hand of