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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.
It was the presence of God with his People, that was their preservation, and their enemies destruction; there is no power, no force, no strength, no combinations that can stand before the powerful presence of God with his People, and a spirit of prayer upon his People. Hezekiah prays and finds such a powerful presence of God with him, as bears up his heart, and as strengthens his faith, and as cuts off his enemies, Isa. 37. 14. to 21. with Verse 36. O beg hard ⟨p. 203⟩of the Lord that he will stay with you, do as they did when Christ made as though he would have gone from 1them, Luke 24. 29. But they constrained him, saying, abide with us, for it is towards evening and the day is far spent; and he went in to tarry with them. By prayer and importunity lay hold on Christ; say, Lord night is near, the night of trouble, the night of distress, the night of danger, the night of death is near, stay with us, depart not from us. They over-entreated him by their importunity, they compelled him by entreaty: Night is near, and the day is far spent. Some conjecture, that Cleophas observing Christ to be very expert in the Prophets, and to discourse so admirable well-of Christs person, sufferings and glory, his heart burning in him with musing, who this should be! he is marvellous importunate with him to stay at his house, and at last prevails. O lay a hand of holy violence upon God as Jacob did, and say (as he) 2I will not let thee go; Jacob though lamed and hard laid at, yet will not let Christ go; Jacob holds fast with both hands when his joints were out of joint, being fully resolved that what ever he did let go, he would not let go his Lord till he had blest him. O be often a crying out with Jeremiah, Leave us not: Lord, though in our great 3troubles and deep distresses, friends should leave us, and Relations leave us, and all the world leave us, yet don't thou leave us, O don't thou leave us, Lord; though all Creatures should desert us, yet if thou wilt but stand by us, we shall do well enough: But woe, woe unto us, if God depart from us. O leave us not. But,