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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29709	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 ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4970; ESTC R11759	200,185	248

him and having built a fair Palace and being quietly settled in his Throne he began to be puffed up with carnal confidence Oh the hazard of honour Oh the damage of dignity how soon are we broken upon the soft pillow of ease Flies settle upon the sweetest perfumes when cold and so does sin on the best hearts when they are dissolved and disspirited by prosperity Oh how apt are the holiest of men to be proud and secure and promise themselves more than ever God promised them viz. Immunity from the Cross He thought that his Kingdom and all prosperity was tyed unto him with ●ords of Adamant he sitting quietly at Jerusalem and free from 2 Sam. 11. 1. fear of all his Enemies but God quickly confutes his carnal confidence by giving him to know that he could as easily blast the strongest Oak as he could trample the smallest Worm under his feet Verse 7. Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled God will quickly suspend his favour and withdraw his presence when his Children begin to be proud and carnally confident Look as at the Eclipse of the Sun the whole frame of nature droops so when God hides his face when he withdraws his presence the best of Saints cannot but droop and hang down their heads So Jerem. 17. 5. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Verse 6. For he shall be like the heath in the desart and shall not see when good cometh But Sixthly Take heed of barrenness and unfruitfulness under Gospel Ordinances turn to these Scriptures Isa 5. 1 to 8. Matth. 21. 34 to 42. 2 Chron. 32. 16. to the last Of all spiritual judgments barreness is the greatest and when men are given up to this judgment God withdraws Ezek. 47. 11. Matth. 13. 19. Hosea 9. 14. John 15. 2. Heb 2. 6. 7 8. Jude 12. he has no pleasure to dwell in a barren soil what are barren grounds and barren wombs to barren hearts he that remains wholly barren under Gospel Ordinances may well question his marriage union with Christ For Rom. 7. 4. We are said to be married to Christ that we may bring forth fruit to God There is a double end of Marriage viz. Cohabitation and propagation and therefore there cannot be a greater and clearer evidence that thou art not yet taken into a married union with Christ than a total barrenness uner Gospel enjoyments Christ's Spouse is fruitful Cant. 1. 16. Our bed is green Cap. 4. 1. Behold thou art fair my love behold thou art fair thou hast doves eyes within thy locks thy hair is as a flock of Goats that appear from mount Gilead Verse 2. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn which come up from the washing whereof every one bears twins and none is barren among them Christ hath no further delight in his People nor will no further grace his Cant 7. 11 12 13 People with his special presence than they make conscience of weeping over their barrenness and of bringing forth fruit to him Now my Husband will love me now he will be joyned to me now I have born him this son also Gen. 29. 34. said Leah so may the fruit-bearing soul reason it out with Christ Now I know dear Jesus will love me now I know he will delight in me now I know he will dwell with me now I know he will honour me with his presence for now I bring forth fruit unto him Barr●nness under the means of grace drives God from us and the Gospel from us and trade and peace and prosperity from us and one Christian from another Vrsin observes that the sins and barrenness of the Protestants under the Gospel in King Edward's dayes brought in the persecution in Queen Marie's dayes and he tells us that those who fl●d out of England in Queen Marie's dayes acknowledged that that calamity befel them for their great unprofitableness under the means of grace in King Edwards dayes Among other prodigies which were about the time that Julian came to the Empire there were wild Grapes appeared upon their vines with which many wise men in that day were much affected looking upon it as ominous Ah England England I look upon nothing to be so ominous to thee as the barrenness of the Professors of the day no wonder if God leave his house when the Trees that are planted in it and about it are all barren The Nutmeg-tree makes barren all the ground about it so doth the spice of worldly love make the hearts of Christians barren under the means of grace But I must hasten Seventhly Take heed of pride and haughtiness of Spirit Hosea 5. 5. And the pride of Israel doth testifie to See my Unsearchable riches of Christ p. 49. to 58. his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also shall fall with th●m Ver. 6. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord but they shall not find him he hath withdrawn himself from them Pride is the great master-pock of the soul it will bud and Ezek. 7. 10. Isa 3. 16. to 25. blossom it cannot be hid it is the Leprosie of the soul that breaks forth in the very forehead and so testifieth to his face Some have called Rome Epitomen universi An Epitome or Abridgement of the whole world So it may be said of pride that it is the sum of all naughtiness a Sea of sin a complicated sin a mother sin sin a breeding sin a sin that has all sorts of sin in the womb of it consult the Scriptures in the margin Aristotle Hab. 1. 16. Isa 48. 9. Cap. 26. 12. Hab. 2. 5 c. speaking of Justice saith that in Justice all virtues are couched 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 summarily so it may be truly said of pride that in it all vices are as it were in a bundle lapped up together and therefore no wonder if God withdraw his presence from proud persons He hath withdrawn himself from them Heb. Hath snatcht 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 away himself hath thrown himself out of their company as Peter threw himself out from the rude Souldiers Mark 14. 72. into a by-corner to weep bitterly God will have nothing to do with proud persons he will never dwell with them he will never keep house with them he that dwells in the highest heavens will never dwell in Isa 57. 15. Psalm 138. 6. a haughty heart The proud he knoweth afar of He won't vouchsafe to come so near such loathsome Lepers he stands of from such as odious and abominable he cannot abide the sight of them yea his very heart rises against Prov. 15. 25. Cap. 16. 5. them James 4. 6. God resisteth the proud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He sets himself in battel array against him as the Greek word emphatically signifies Above all sorts of sinners