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 XXVIII.

The neerness of the time to the fulfilling of these things, is no more an impediment to our beleeving and looking for them at this day, then it would be to the peo∣ple of God at any other time, supposing them to live as neer the time as we.

Nay, what if I say, Our faith may hence take encou∣ragement the rather to beleeve these things, and expect them; seeing Gods ordinary way with his people in former ages hath been, whensoever he hath had any special delive∣rance to work for them, to conceal the time of it from his people, till the work was ripe, and now ready to bee put in execution. To give instance in two only, both fa∣mous Types of the Deliverance I am now treating of.

First, Israels deliverance from Egypt. Moses is sent of God to do the work before any of them dream of de∣liverance, or once think, that the four hundred and thirty years were so neer run out, as indeed they were.

Secondly, The deliverance from Babylon. Holy Da∣niel, although he was the only man of that age that knew the times and seasons, yet doth not he know the deliverance of Gods people to be so nigh, as indeed it was, until (as I may say) the very day before their deliverance, or untill that very year was come in which they were delivered, D••niel 9.1, 2. compared with Ezra 1.1, 2, 3, &c.