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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.
Job 16. 2. Miserable Comforters are ye all. Cap. 19. 2. How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? But the presence of the Lord is very desirable, most desirable, and always desirable, and the more any man has of this Divine presence, the more his heart will be inflamed after more and more of it. A sound sincere Christian can never have enough power against sin, nor never enough strength against temptation, nor never enough weanedness ⟨p. 171⟩from this World, nor never enough ripeness for Heaven, nor never enough of the presence of the Lord; enough of the Divine presence, he may have to quiet him, and cheer him, and encourage him, but whilst he is out of Heaven, he can never have enough of the Divine presence to satisfy him, so as not to cry out, Lord more of thy presence, O a little more of thy presence! 15. 'Tis the most joyful, refreshing, and delightful presence, Psalm 16. ult. Acts 5. 40, 41. Cap. 16. 25. This 2Vincentius, and many thousand Martyrs, and suffering Christians have experienced in all the Ages of the world, but of this before. 6. 'Tis a peculiar and distinguishing 3presence; this favourable signal presence of God is a choice Jewel, that he hangs in no breasts, a Bracelet that he puts upon no arms, a Crown that he sets upon no heads, but such whom he loves with a peculiar love, with an everlasting love. The general presence of God extends 4and reaches to all Sinners and Saints; Angels and Devils, to all, both in that upper and this lower world; But this favourable signal presence of God, is peculiar to those that are the purchase of Christs blood, and the travail of his soul; 7. 'Tis an inflaming presence: Oh, how does it, 1. Inflame the heart to duty?