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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.
A further proof of this eight particular, that is under our present consideration you have in Isa. 8. 9. Associate 1your selves O ye People, and ye shall be broken in pieces, and give ear all ye of far Countries: gird your selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces: gird your selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Heb. And be broken in pieces, And be broken in pieces: And be broken in pieces. It is thrice repeated, to work it the deeper into the minds and hearts of those, that should either hear or read it; and to give the stronger assurance of the certainty of their being inevitably broken in pieces, who were adversaries and conspirators against the People of God: This speech is directed to the Kings of Assyria, and other Nations that combined with him against the People of God; but especially against the City of Jerusalem: It is an holy Irony, or laughing to scorn the associating Enemies of the Church. Well, saith the Prophet, proceed as unanimously as politicly, and as powerfully in your combinations, consultations, and ⟨p. 53⟩preparations as you can, yet be assured, that all your associations shall be dissolved, and your counsels frustrated, and your attempts returned back upon your selves, to your own ruin and confusion. Verse 10. Take 2counsel together. [Heb. consult a consultation, to wit about invading Judah, and surprising Jerusalem] and it shall come to naught: Speak the word and it shall not stand, for God is with us: Consult, conclude, determine, resolve upon what you please, you shall never be able by all your power and policy to prevail against the People of God, for his favourable, signal, and eminent presence, is constantly with them, to assist, counsel, and protect them against all oppositions and assaults, 3God bringeth to naught the counsel of the Nations; neither the Devil nor his Imps, nor any of their counsels, or enchantments, shall ever be able to stand before the presence of the Lord with his People. Charles the Fifth, and the French King, had upon counsel taken covenanted and agreed, utterly to extirpate the Lutheran Faction out of all their Dominions; but God found them other employment, and by his signal presence with his People, he gave them an happy Halcyon.