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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.
yea that all the world should leave him than that his God should leave him: The daily, yea the hourly language of his soul is, Lord leave me not, though all the world should leave me, yet don't thou leave me. 4. Such a Person will do all he can, that all under his 1care and charge may partake of this signal presence of God, he will do his utmost that Children, Yoke-fellow, Kindred, Servants may taste the sweetness of the Divine presence. When Sampson had found honey in the Carcass of the Lion, he did not only eat himself, but he gave of the honey to his Father and Mother, and they did eat also; of all sweets the presence of God is the greatest sweet, and when ever a poor soul comes to taste of this heavenly honey, he will do his best that all others (especially those that are near and dear to him) may taste of the same honey. But
yea that all the world should leave him than that his God should leave him: The daily, yea the hourly language of his soul is, Lord leave me not, though all the world should leave me, yet don't thou leave me. 4. Such a Person will do all he can, that all under his 1care and charge may partake of this signal presence of God, he will do his utmost that Children, Yoak-fellow, Kindred, Servants may tast the sweetness of the Divine presence. When Sampson had found honey in the Carcass of the Lion, he did not only eat himself, but he gave of the honey to his Father and Mother, and they did eat also; of all sweets the presence of God is the greatest sweet, and when ever a poor soul comes to tast of this heavenly honey, he will do his best that all others (especially those that are near and dear to him) may tast of the same honey. But
- 1John 1. 40. to the end. Cap. 4. 28. to 43. Acts 10. 24. to 36. Judges 14. 8, 9.