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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.
Num. 13. 30. And Caleb stilled the People before Moses, and said, let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. Cap. 14. 9. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the Land, for 1they are bread for us; their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us, fear them not. The Spies by their lies did what they could to daunt and discourage the People, by crying up the strength of the Anakims, and 2the impossibility of the conquest, these hollow-hearted hypocritical Spies blow hot and cold almost in a breath; First, they make a narrative of the fruitfulness of the Land, and presently they conclude, that it was a Land ⟨p. 17⟩that was not sufficient to nourish the inhabitants, yea, a 3Land that did devour the inhabitants. Liars have no Iron memories. But now behold to what a mighty pitch Caleb's faith is raised. [Let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are able to overcome it.] Or nearer the Hebrew, Marching up, march up, subduing subdue. Let us, saith believing Caleb, march up to the land of Canaan courageously, resolutely, undauntedly, for the day is our own, the Land is our own, all is our own. [They are bread for us,] we shall make but a break-fast of them, we shall easily and as surely root them out, and cut them down with our swords, as we cut the bread we eat. [Their defence is departed from them.] In the Hebrew it 4is, Their shadow is departed from them; the shadow you know guards a man from the scorching heat of the Sun. Caleb by faith, saw God with drawn from them, by the eye of his faith he looked upon them as a people without a fence, a shadow, a guard, a covert, a protection, and therefore, as a people that might easily be subdued, and destroyed. His faith told him, that it was not their strong Cities, nor their high walls, nor their sons of Anack, that could preserve, shelter, secure, or defend them, seeing the Lord had forsaken them, and would be no longer as a shadow or a shelter to them [And the Lord is with us,] to make us victorious, to trad down our enemies, and to give us a quiet possession of the good Land.