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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.
First, Be sure that you are brought under the bond of the Covenant. This gracious signal presence of God 1with his People, under their greatest troubles, and deepest distresses, is peculiar to those that are in Covenant with God. Noah was in Covenant with God, and God was with him, providing an Ark for him, and preserving of him from drowning in the midst of drowning. Lot was in Covenant with God-, and God was with him, and secures him in Zoar, when he rained 2Hell out of Heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah. Joseph was in Covenant with God, and God was with Joseph 3in prison. Jeremiah was in Covenant with God, and God kept him company in the Dungeon. The three Children (or rather Champions) were in Covenant with God, and God was signally present with them in the fiery Furnace. Daniel was in Covenant with God, and God was wonderfully with him in the Lions Den. ⟨p. 194⟩Job was in Covenant with God, and God was with him in six troubles, and in seven. David was in Covenant 4with God, and God was with him in the valley of the shadow of death. Take not up in a name to live, nor in a form of godliness, nor in common convictions, nor in an outward reformation, take up in nothing below a Covenant-relation, as you would enjoy the precious presence 5of the Lord with you in your greatest troubles, and deepest distresses, if you choose him for your God you shall then assuredly find him to be your God; if he be the God of our love and fear, he will be the God of our comfort and safety; if God be your God in Covenant, then in distress the cities of refuge are open to you; he will stick close to you, he will never leave you nor forsake you, you have a Father to go to, a God to flee 6to, a God that will take care of you, [Come my People, enter th•u into thy Chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, hide thy self, as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.] Here are Chambers (withdrawing rooms provided not open Chambers, but with doors, and doors shut round about, intimating that guard of protection, which the People of God shall find from him, even in a common inundation. But,