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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The Kingdom of the Beast is full of Darkness.

And his Kingdom was full of Darkness. By the fall of Rome, the head City, the whole Papal Kingdom shall suffer a great eclipse of its former esteem and glory, for now shall the Kings of the Earth, who have been former∣ly supports to this Kingdom, and those Merchants of the Earth who have formerly traded with the Beast, stand afar off, as men afraid either to own, or traffick with the Beast any longer for fear of her torment, as is more fully set forth in the description of Romes ruin, which we have at large, Chap. 18. v. 9. to 20.