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 ...

THESIS XXIX.

The great unlikelihood in an eye of reason of bringing such great and wonderful things about, within so short a time, to which as yet we see so little visible preparation, may well be a block in the way of carnal reason; but why should it be so to Faith? Seeing God hath assured us again, again, and again, Rev. 18. that from that time wherein the proud Whore shall bee glorying, boast∣ing, triumphing, conceiting her self far enough from danger, it shall bee but an hour (i. e. a very little time) to Gods passing judgement upon her, in the overthrow and ruine of Rome, the glory of her Kingdom.