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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 is most probable, that they were accessary to that wicked conspiracy against Daniel, by stirring up and provoking their Husbands ⟨p. 20⟩and Fathers, to engage all their power, interest, and policy against him, and never to suffer a poor captive to be advanced in honour and dignity above them; and how just and righteous a thing was it with God, that they who had plotted together, and contrived together, the ruin and destruction of a holy innocent person, that these should suffer together, and go to the den together, and be torn in pieces together. Sinners look to your selves: if you will sin with others, you must expect to suffer with others. 3. Or if a man hath been beneficial to him. 4. Or if a man lieth prostrate before him, in the manner of a supplicant; but Daniel was not safe, he was not secured by any of these means, but God secured him in the midst of these dreadful dangers by the ministry of an Angel. [My God hath sent his Angel, and hath shut the Lyons mouths, that they have not hurt me, Dan. 6. 22.] Others say, that God secured Daniel, by taking away the Lyons hunger from them, at that time, and by causing in them a satiety. And some tell us, that God secured him, by raising such a fantasy in the Lyons that they looked upon Daniel, not as a prey, but as on one, that was a friend unto them. But now in the midst of this dreadful danger, how doth Daniel's faith sparkle and shine, Ver. 23. Then was the King exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den; So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. Daniel in a fiery Furnace, looks upon God as his God, in the midst of the flames he acts faith upon the power of God, the promises of God, &c. Of all living creatures Lyons are most fierce, cruel, and irresistible, and yet such was the strength and force of Daniel's faith, that it stopped their mouths; though Daniel 1was but one man, yet such was the power of his faith, that it stopped the mouths of many Lyons. As Luther says of prayer, so may I say of faith; it hath a kind of omnipotency in it, its able to do all things, est quaedam omnipotentia precum. Thus you see by these famous ⟨p. 21⟩