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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
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Now the main Argument to raise his courage and mettle, is drawn from Gods special presence and assistance, Joshua 1. 9. For the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. We are not to understand it of Gods general presence in all places, but of his special, favourable, signal, and eminent presence, which God would manifest in his preservation and protection, notwithstanding all the difficulties, enterprises, dangers and Enemies that he was to encounter with. So 2 Chron. 32. 7. Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed, for the King of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him. Verse 8. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us, and to fight our battles, &c. At this time the King of Assyria was the greatest Monarch ⟨p. 34⟩in the world, and the most formidable Enemy Israel had: he had a mighty Army, for there was a hundred fourscore and five thousand of them slain in one night. 1Now the great thing they were to mind and attend was, to look narrowly to it, that the favourable, signal and eminent presence of God with them, did raise all their hearts above all discouragements, fears and dismayedness, what is the chaff to the whirl-wind? what are thorns and briars to a consuming fire? what is an arm of flesh, to the arm, strength; and power of a God? what is weakness to strength, and the nothing Creature to the Lord of Hosts? Now if the special, signal presence of God with his People in their greatest troubles, and most deadly dangers, won't put singular courage, life, and mettle into them, what will? Acts 23. verse 10. And when there arose a great dissension, the chief Captain, fearing l••• Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the Soldiers to go down, and take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the Castle. Verse 11. And the night following the Lord stood by him, [namely in a vision, or in a dream, or in an ecstasy,] and said be of good cheer Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. The favourable, signal presence of the Lord with him, turned is Prison into a Palace. Mr. Philpot being a