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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Blaspheming of God.

And men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the Hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

The Eeast lived a Blasphemer, now he dyes a Blas∣phemer, and goes blaspheming to the Lake of fire burn∣ing with brimstone, whither the just judgements of God (which when they cannot reform sinners on earth, cast them to Hell) have now brought him.

And this is the conclusion of this great day, as it re∣spects Gods Enemies, which to their woe they shall find and feel to be a black, dismal, and fatal day, though but the beginning of it, as it respects the Saints and people of God, to whom it shall be the most glo∣rious, joyful, and lightsome day that ever they beheld; When God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more curse, but the Throne of God, and the Lamb, and his Servants shall serve him. And they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. And this is that New Jerusalem com∣ing down from God out of Heaven; the hope of which, let it purifie our hearts even as he is pure. Let us al∣wayes have our loyns girded about, our lamps burning, and we our selves like unto men that wait for the Lord, looking earnestly unto, and breathing after that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who once was offered to bear

the sins of many, and unto them that look for him will he appear the second time without sin to salva∣tion. When be that now overcometh shall be made a Pil∣lar in the Temple of his God, and he shall go no more out; And Christ will write upon him the Name of his God, and the Name of the City of his God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Hea∣ven from his God, and he will write upon him his new name. And those that do his Commandements shall have right to the Tree of Life, and enter in through the Gates into the City, when without shall be Dogs, and Sorcerers, and Whoremongers, and Murderers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth, and maketh a lie. Which things he hath sent his Angel to testifie in the Churches, who is the Root and Off-spring of David, and the bright and morning Star; Who also him∣self saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.