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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.
Fourthly, the Lord doth manifest his favourable, signal, and eminent presence with his People, in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, by laying a Law of restraint upon every wicked man, and by bridling and checking their fury and insolency, that they shall not add afflictions to the afflicted ⟨p. 27⟩as otherwise they would; as he did upon Laban, Gen. 31. 24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, take heed that thou speak not to Jacob, either good or bad. Verse 29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your Fathers spake unto me yester night, saying, take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. See what a law of restraint God laid upon Esau, Gen. 33. 1, 2, 3, 4. and upon Abimelech, Gen. 20. 6, 7, 8, 17, 18. and upon Benhadad, 1 Kings 20. 1, 10, 29, 30. and upon Haman, as you may see by comparing the 3. and 6. chapters of Esther together; and upon Pharaoh, Exod. 15. 9, 10. and upon Sennacherib, Isa. 37. 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36. and upon Herod, Acts 12, Maximinus set forth a proclamation engraven in 1brass, for the utter abolishing of Christ and Religion: he was eaten up of lice. Valens, being to subscribe an order for the banishment of Basil, was smitten with a sudden trembling of his hand, that he could not subscribe the order; afterwards he was burned to death by the Goths.
Fourthly, the Lord doth manifest his favourable, signal, and eminent presence with his People, in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, by laying a Law of restraint upon every wicked man, and by bridling and checking their fury and insolency, that they shall not add afflictions to the afflicted