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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.
Eighthly and lastly, If you would enjoy the signal presence of God with you, in your greatest troubles, deepest 1distresses, and most deadly dangers, then labour every day more and more after greater measures of holiness; the more holiness you reach to, the more you shall have of the presence of a holy God with you, in all your straits and trials. If the Scriptures be narrowly searched, you will find that men of the greatest measures and degrees of holiness, have always enjoyed the greatest measures of the Divine presence; witness Enoch, Genes. 5. 24. Noah, Genes. 6. 8, 9, 17, 18. So Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job, David, Daniel, John, Paul, &c. they were all famous for holiness, and accordingly they had a famous presence of God with them, as hath been showed in part, and might more fully have been discovered, but that the press calls upon me to hasten to a conclusion; and therefore I shall now but hint at things, consider.
Eightly and lastly, If you would enjoy the signal presence of God with you, in your greatest troubles, deepest 1distresses, and most deadly dangers, then labour every day more and more after greater measures of holiness; the more holiness you reach to, the more you shall have of the presence of a holy God with you, in all your straits and trials. If the Scriptures be narrowly searched, you will find that men of the greatest measures and degrees of holiness, have alwayes enjoyed the greatest measures of the Divine presence; witness Enoch, Genes. 5. 24. Noah, Genes. 6. 8, 9, 17, 18. So Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job, David, Daniel, John, Paul, &c. they were all famous for holiness, and accordingly they had a famous presence of God with them, as hath been shewed in part, and might more fully have been discovered, but that the press calls upon me to hasten to a conclusion; and therefore I shall now but hint at things, consider.