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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.
To approve of the ways of God. 2. To choose the ways of the Lord. 3. Highly to prize them. 4. To delight and take pleasure in them. 5. To walk in them and to keep close to them; and yet in all these five things the Lord doth greatly and graciously help his poor People, when they are as it were in the very mouth of the Lion. But
To approve of the wayes of God. 2. To chuse the wayes of the Lord. 3. Highly to prize them. 4. To delight and take pleasure in them. 5. To walk in them and to keep close to them; and yet in all these five things the Lord doth greatly and graciously help his poor People, when they are as it were in the very mouth of the Lion. But
Sixthly, The Lord doth manifest his favourable presence, §6his signal and eminent presence with his People, in their greatest troubles; deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, by encouraging, emboldening, animating and heartening up his People, in the midst of all their troubles, distresses and dangers, and by putting new life, spirit, and mettle into them; when they are 1even in the very mouth of the Lion: Josh. 1. 6. Be strong and of a good courage. Verse 7. Only be thou strong and very courageous. Verse 9. Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. Joshua was a sword-man as well as a book-man, he had his name changed from Oshea to Joshua, from 2let God save, to God shall save. Christ will never want a Champion, to stand up for his Church; if Moses dies Joshua shall stand up: There shall be a succession of swor• men, and book-men, of Rulers and Teachers, to ca••y on Christs work in the world, till the top-stone