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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
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Fourthly, there is a Majestical and glorious presence ⟨p. 8⟩of Christ, and thus he is said to be in Heaven. Psalm 2. 4. 1He that sitteth in the Heavens will laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. Heb. 1. 13. But to which of the Angels said he at any time, sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Cap. 9. 24. For Christ is not entered into the boly Pl•oes made with hands, which are the figure of the true, but into Heaven it self, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Not that Heaven is circulus concludens, a place wherein Christ is shut up, but Palatium resplendens, the Court (as it were) where his Majesty in acts of wisdom, and power, and mercy, and conjunction of grace and glory doth most of all appear. As the soul of man, though it be in every part of man, yet it doth principally appear and manifest it self in the heart and brain, so here, &c. Monica, Austin's Mother, standing one day, and seeing the Sun shine, raised this meditation, Oh if the Sun be so bright, what is the light of Christ's presence in glory! But this is not the presence we design now to discourse of.
Fourthly, there is a Majestical and glorious presence ⟨p. 8⟩of Christ, and thus he is said to be in Heaven. Psalm 2. 4. 1He that sitteth in the Heavens will laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. Heb. 1. 13. But to which of the Angels said he at any time, sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Cap. 9. 24. For Christ is not entred into the boly Pl•oes made with hands, which are the figure of the true, but into Heaven it self, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Not that Heaven is circulus concludens, a place wherein Christ is shut up, but Palatium resplendens, the Court (as it were) where his Majesty in acts of wisdom, and power, and mercy, and conjunction of grace and glory doth most of all appear. As the soul of man, though it be in every part of man, yet it doth principally appear and manifest it self in the heart and brain, so here, &c. Manica, Austin's Mother, standing one day, and seeing the Sun shine, raised this meditation, Oh if the Sun be so bright, what is the light of Christ's presence in glory! But this is not the presence we design now to discourse of.