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 ...

2 The EFFECT.

The Rivers and Fountains of Waters become blood.

And they became blood. That is, Wars do arise in those Nations subject to this third Vial, to the involving the people in blood, yea causing the blood of chief Heads and great ones to be poured forth. How within these few yeers past, our Rivers in England, and the places sub∣jected to it, have run blood, yea the Fountain head hath sprouted blood, is sufficiently known to all men. Now the reason why I interpret blood here according to the Letter, is, because a necessity so to do lyes upon me, and that from the very words, for such blood as hath been

shed by the Rivers and Fountains of waters, such blood by way of retaliation is given them to drink, vers. 6. but blood hath been shed by them in a litteral sense, therefore God in their own kind, repays them again, and they be∣come blood.