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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.
how comes this about, that he who came to fight against them, thinks them beyond all compare, nay doth himself admire their postures and order, their great glory & brave gallantry, why all is from the presence of their Lord-General with them? The Lord their God is with 1them, the shout of a King is amongst them. It is the highest honour, renown and dignity of a People to have God in the midst of them, to have God near unto them; Thus Moses sets out the honour and dignity of the Jews, Deut. 26. 18. The Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar People, Verse 19. To make thee high, above all Nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour. When God reckons up the dignities of his People, this is the main the top of all, Psalm 87. 5. And of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her, and the Highest himself shall establish her. If you would keep your honour and dignity, keep the presence of God in the midst of you; when God is departed from Israel, then you may write Ichabod upon Israel, The glory is departed 2from Israel. But,
how comes this about, that he who came to fight against them, thinks them beyond all compare, nay doth himself admire their postures and order, their great glory & brave gallantry, why all is from the presence of their Lord-General with them? The Lord their God is with 1them, the shout of a King is amongst them. It is the highest honour, renown and dignity of a People to have God in the midst of them, to have God near unto them; Thus Moses sets out the honour and dignity of the Jews, Deut. 26. 18. The Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar People, Verse 19. To make thee high, above all Nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour. When God reckons up the dignities of his People, this is the main the top of all,