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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.
Domitian, the author of the second persecution against the Christians, having drawn a catalogue of the names of such as he was to kill, in which was the name of his own Wife, and other Friends; upon which he was by the consent of his Wife, slain by his own household servants with daggers in his privy Chamber; his body was buried without honour, his memory cursed to posterity, and his Arms and Ensigns where thrown down and defaced. Julian vowed to make a sacrifice of the Christians upon his return from the wars, but in a Battle against the Persians, he was deadly wounded, and throwing his blood in the air, in a high contempt of Christ, he dyed with that desperate blasphemous expression in his mouth, Vicisti tandem Galiaee, Thou Galilean […] overcome me.
Domitian, the author of the second persecution against the Christians, having drawn a catalogue of the names of such as he was to kill, in which was the name of his own Wife, and other Friends; upon which he was by the consent of his Wife, slain by his own houshold servants with daggers in his privy Chamber; his body was buried without honour, his memory cursed to posterity, and his Arms and Ensignes where thrown down and defaced. Julian vowed to make a sacrifice of the Christians upon his return from the wars, but in a Battel against the Persians, he was deadly wounded, and throwing his blood in the air, in a high contempt of Christ, he dyed with that desperate blasphemous expression in his mouth, Vicisti tandem Galiaee, Thou Galilean 〈…〉 overcome me.
Faelix, Earl of Wurtenburg; was a great persecutor of the Saints, and did swear, that ere he dyed he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but ⟨p. 28⟩the very same night, wherein he had thus sworn and vowed, he was choked in his own blood.
Faelix, Earl of Wurtenburg; was a great persecutor of the Saints, and did swear, that ere he dyed he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but