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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.
They that persecute the Servants of Christ, they persecute Christ himself, who liveth in them, and ⟨p. 55⟩is mystically united to them. Look as there is by virtue of the natural union a mutual sympathy betwixt the head and the members, the Husband and the Wife: so 'tis here betwixt Christ and his Saints, for he is a most 1sympathizing, compassionate, tender-hearted Saviour. Those that shoot at the Saints hit Christ, their sufferings are held his, and their reproaches are counted his. He that bore the Saints griefs when he was on Earth, (really and properly) he •ears them still now he is in Heaven, (in a way of sympathy) Christ in his glorified state hath a very tender sense of all the evil that is done to his Children, his members, his Spouse, and looks upon it as done to himself. A great Lord said to another great Lord of the Council in King Henry the Eighths days, concerning Cranmer, Let him alone, for the King will 2not suffer his finger to ache. So say I to the persecutors of the day; Let the People of God alone, for if you do but make their finger ache. God will make your heads and hearts ache for it, before he has done with you. But,
They that persecute the Servants of Christ, they persecute Christ himself, who liveth in them, and ⟨p. 55⟩is mystically united to them. Look as there is by virtue of the natural union a mutual sympathy betwixt the head and the members, the Husband and the Wife: so 'tis here betwixt Christ and his Saints, for he is a most 1sympathizing, compassionate, tender-hearted Saviour. Those that shoot at the Saints hit Christ, their sufferings are held his, and their reproaches are counted his. He that bore the Saints griefs when he was on Earth, (really and properly) he •ears them still now he is in Heaven, (in a way of sympathy) Christ in his glorified state hath a very tender sense of all the evil that is done to his Children, his members, his Spouse, and looks upon it as done to himself. A great Lord said to another great Lord of the Council in King Henry the Eighths dayes, concerning Cranmer, Let him alone, for the King will