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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.
The upright man shall have joy in tribulation, plenty in penury; liberty in bonds, life in death, as the Martyrs have frequently and gloriously experienced. Sometimes God turns the ⟨p. 201⟩upright mans adversity into prosperity, his sickness into health, his weakness into strength, his night into day, his storms into calms, his long Winter-nights into pleasant Summer-days. Sometimes God hides his upright ones in the hollow of his hand, in his pavilion, in his presence-chamber; when his judgments are abroad 1in the earth, he takes special care of his Jewels, and many times when the upright are in darkness and in great 2distress, God cheers their hearts with the consolations of his Spirit, and the light of his countenance. By all which it is most evident, that Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness. O Sirs, do but maintain your uprightness in all your troubles and distresses, and then you will be sure of the gracious presence of God with you in all your troubles and distresses. God values an upright Job 3upon a Dunghill, before a deceitful Jehu upon his Royal Throne; he sets a higher price upon an upright Lazarus in rags, than upon a rich Dives in his purple robes; And therefore when an upright man is in troubles and distresses God will be sure to keep him company. The upright mans Motto is semper idem, he is like the Philosophers Dye, cast him which way you will, and into what condition you will, he is still upright, and therefore of all persons God loves to grace the upright man with his gracious presence. But,
The upright man shall have joy in tribulation, plenty in penury; liberty in bonds, life in death, as the Martyrs have frequently and gloriously experienced. Sometimes God turnes the ⟨p. 201⟩upright mans adversity into prosperity, his sickness into health, his weakness into strength, his night into day, his stormes into calmes, his long Winter-nights into pleasant Summer-days. Sometimes God hides his upright ones in the hollow of his hand, in his pavilion, in his presence-chamber; when his judgments are abroad