Generation-work, or, A brief and seasonable word offered to the view and consideration of the saints and people of God in this generation, relating to the work of the present age, or generation we live in wherein is shewed, I. What generation-work is, and how it differs from other works, II. That saints in the several generations they have lived in, have had the proper and peculiar works of their generations, III. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a saint to attend to and be industrious in, the work of his generation, IV. Wherein doth the work of the present generation lye, V. How each one in particular may find out that part or parcel of it, that is properly his work in his generation, VI. How generation-work may be so carried on, as that God may be served in the generation / by John Tillinghast ...

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Title: Generation-work, or, A brief and seasonable word offered to the view and consideration of the saints and people of God in this generation, relating to the work of the present age, or generation we live in wherein is shewed, I. What generation-work is, and how it differs from other works, II. That saints in the several generations they have lived in, have had the proper and peculiar works of their generations, III. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a saint to attend to and be industrious in, the work of his generation, IV. Wherein doth the work of the present generation lye, V. How each one in particular may find out that part or parcel of it, that is properly his work in his generation, VI. How generation-work may be so carried on, as that God may be served in the generation / by John Tillinghast ...
Author: Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. Ibbitson for Livewell Chapman ...,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Christian ethics.; Prophets.
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THESIS III.

This knowledge, though attainable, is not a discovery in∣tended for al Ages but for the last only, or those Saints which shall live immediately before the expiration of this time. Therefore is the revealing time alwayes particulatly noted by this express Character, The time of the end. Dan. 12.4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end. Vers 9. Go thy way Daniel, for the words are closed up, and sealed till the time of the end. Chap. 8.17. Ʋnderstand, O Son of man, for at the time of the end shall be the Vision; which last words can∣not respect the time of the Vision, which was many Ages since, in the third yeer of Belshazzar, vers. 1. nor the matter of the Vision, as if the same did relate only to things done in the time of the end; for the matter of the Vision is a Prophecie of the three last Monarchies, First, Medes and Persians. Secondly, Grecians. Thirdly, Romans (the Babylonian Monatchy being omitted, because it was in the expiration of that Daniel had the Vision) and there∣fore the matter of it runs through all of them, and may not be limited to the time of the end; but they respect the revelation of the Vision, which Daniel himself hath light into at present, but with this Proviso, that he shut it up, Vers. 26. Shut thou up the Vision; for others must wait for the understanding of these things until the time of the end.