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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.
The Lord never shows more of his favourable, signal, and eminent presence, than by teaching of his People many gracious and Gospel lessons by their great troubles, deep distresses, and most deadly dangers. But,
The Lord never shews more of his favourable, signal, and eminent presence, than by teaching of his People many gracious and Gospel lessons by their great troubles, deep distresses, and most deadly dangers. But,
Thirdly, the Lord doth manifest his favourable, his signal, his eminent presence with his People, in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, by raising, strengthening, and acting, their suffering graces, viz. their faith, hope, love, patience, prudence, courage, boldness, zeal, constancy. Thus in the Text, The Lord stood by me, and strengthened me. He put new life, and strength, and vigour into all my graces; although there are habits of grace always resident in the 1hearts of the Saints, yet those habits are not always in exercise. The habits of grace cannot act of themselves, there must be renewed strength imparted to set them on 2work. Make me to go in the path of thy Commandments, for therein do I delight. Though David had a spirit of new life within him, yet he could not actually walk in the path of Gods precepts, till by an additional force he was set a going. Cant. 4. 16. Awake, O North wind, and come thou South wind, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. By the garden we may safely ⟨p. 25⟩understand a sanctified soul, and by the spices in this garden we may understand the several graces planted in the soul; now these spices can never flow out, and send forth their fragrant smell, till the North and South wind blows upon them. Habitual grace cannot operate and dilate, and put forth it self into exercise, till by the concurrent presence and assistance of Christ it is educed into act; no Saint can act that grace he hath received by his own strength, without the presence and assistance of Christ,