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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.
When the Executioner had kindled the fire behind Jerome of Prague, he bad him kindle it before his face, for (said he) if I had been afraid of it, I had not come to this place, having had so many opportunities offered me to escape it; At the giving up of the ghost, he said▪ [Hanc animam in flammis offero Christe tibi,] This soul of mine in flames of fire, O Christ, I offer thee.
When the Executioner had kindled the fire behind Jerom of Prague, he bad him kindle it before his face, for (said he) if I had been afraid of it, I had not come to this place, having had so many opportunities offered me to escape it; At the giving up of the ghost, he said▪ [Hanc animam in flammis offero Christe tibi,] This soul of mine in flames of fire, O Christ, I offer thee.
The Emperor coming into Germany, sent for Luther to Worms, but many of his friends (from the danger they apprehended hanging over his head) dissuaded him from going; to whom he gave this prudent, courageous, and resolute answer, That these discouragements were cast in his way by Satan, who knew that by his profession of the Truth in so illustrious a place, his Kingdom would be shaken, and that therefore if he knew, that there were as many Devils in Worms, as there were tiles on the houses, yet he woul• go.
The Emperour coming into Germanie, sent for Luther to Worms, but many of his friends (from the danger they apprehended hanging over his head) disswaded him from going; to whom he gave this prudent, couragious, and resolute answer, That these discouragements were cast in his way by Satan, who knew that by his profession of the Truth in so illustrious a place, his Kingdom would be shaken, and that therefore if he knew, that there were as many Devils in Worms, as there were tiles on the houses, yet he woul• go.