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 ...

1 By the Angel of the Waters.

Vers. 5, 6. And I heard the Angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou host judged thus:

For they have shed the blood of Saints, and Pro∣phets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, for they are worthy.

The Angel of the Waters, is that Angel who shall be used to pour out the Vial of Gods wrath upon the Rivers and Fountains of waters, called Angel of the waters, be∣cause he hath a power over the Waters, to pour out Gods wrath upon them; Which Angel shall at this day ac∣knowledge, that notwithstanding the things themselves done by this Vial, are strange, and to be wondred at, things unthought of, unheard of; yet being done, that the hand of God in them is marvellously just, and to bee magnified of all his people, being the just recompence of the injuries offered to, and the blood of Saints. How in the midst of those great and wonderful changes, and revo∣lutions that of late yeers have been in England, the hearts of all those who have gone along with God in these his glorious dispensations and mighty works of wonder, have been (notwithstanding the continual offence of others, and of the greater part) carried out to justifie

God, and say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, &c. cannot by them be forgotten.