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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.
Shimei curses David, but his curses could not hurt him, for God was with him. The People generally cursed Jeremiah, but ⟨p. 179⟩all their curses could not harm him, for God was with him. The Jews in their prayers daily curse the Christian 1Churches, but all their curses can't prejudice them, because God is in the midst of them; And who will say that the reformed Churches are one pin the worse for all the Popes excommunications and execrations with Bell, Book and Candle? The signal presence of God with his People is a most sovereign antidote against all the curses and cursings of cursed men, and therefore what ever you part with, be sure you don't part with your God, let him be but in the midst of you, and then no curses shall be prevalent against you. This age abounds with such monsters whose mouths are full of curses, but if every curse should stick a visible blister on the cursers tongue, as it doth insensible ones on the cursers soul, their tongues would quickly be too big for their mouths, and they would soon grow weary of cursing the People of God, the things of God, the ways of God, the providences of God, and the faithful dispensers of the mysteries of God; but the best of it is, when they have done their worst and spit out all their curses, the curse causeless shall not come, for the ever blessed God is in his People, 2and with his People, and among his People, and a 3wall of fire always about his People, and therefore they are safe and secure enough, when men and Devils have done their worst. But,
Shemei curses David, but his curses could not hurt him, for God was with him. The People generally cursed Jeremiah, but ⟨p. 179⟩all their curses could not harm him, for God was with him. The Jews in their prayers daily curse the Christian 1Churches, but all their curses can't prejudice them, because God is in the midst of them; And who will say that the reformed Churches are one pin the worse for all the Popes excommunications and execrations with Bell, Book and Candle? The signal prefence of God with his People is a most soveraign antidote against all the curses and cursings of cursed men, and therefore what ever you part with, be sure you don't part with your God, let him be but in the midst of you, and then no curses shall be prevalent against you. This age abounds with such monsters whose mouths are full of curses, but if every curse should stick a visible blister on the cursers tongue, as it doth insensible ones on the cursers soul, their tongues would quickly be too big for their mouths, and they would soon grow weary of cursing the People of God, the things of God, the wayes of God, the providences of God, and the faithful dispensers of the mysteries of God; but the best of it is, when they have done their worst and spit out all their curses, the curse causeless shall not come, for the ever blessed God is in his People,