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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.
Seventhly and lastly. Patiently and quietly wait upon him in the way of his Ordinances for the recovery of his 1presence. Consult the Scriptures in the margin: Here God dwells, here he walks, here he makes known his glory, here he gives forth his love, here he vouchsafes his presence; when God is withdrawn your great business is to prize Ordinances, and to keep close to ordinances, till God shall be pleased to lift up the light of his countenance, and vouchsafe his presence to you; you will never recover the Divine presence by neglecting ordinances, nor by slighting ordinances, nor by turning your back upon ordinances, nor by entertaining low thoughts of ordinances. He that thinks ordinances to be needless things concludes, 1. That the taking away of the Kingdom of Heaven from the Jews was no 2great judgment. 2. That the bestowing of it upon other People is no great mercy. If God be gone, 'tis good to lay at the pool till he returns: There are many dear Christians who have lost their God for a time, but after a time they have found him again in the way of his ordinances; and therefore let no temptation draw thee off from ordinances, say, here I will live, here I will lie, here I will wait at the pool of ordinances, till the Lord shall return in mercy to my soul.
- 1Exod. 20. 24. Mat. •8. 20. Isa. 64. 5. Psal. •7 4. Psal. 65. 4. Revel. 2. 1. Psal. 40. 1, 2, 3. Isa. 8. 17. Mich. 7. 7, 8, 9.