A Brief and seadable Word of
A Brief and Seasonable Word, of
fered to the view and confiderati-
eron of the Sants and people of God
in this Generation, relating to the
to work of the prefent age or ge

peration wee live in

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Wherein is fheweds

1. What Generation Work is, and how it differs from o-
ther works,

2. That Saints in the feveral generations they have lived
in, have had the proper and peculiar works of their
generations.

3. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a
Saint to attend to and be industrious in the worke
of his generation

4. Wherein doth the work of the prefent generation Tye.
5. How each one in particular may find out that part or
parcell of it, that is properly his worke in his gene-

ration.

6. How generation work may be fo carried on, as that
God may be ferved in the generation.

THE FIRST PART.

By JOHN TILLINGHAST, an unworthy
Minister of the Gospel at Trunch in Norfolk.

Gen. 6.9. Noah was a just man, and perfect in his Genet
tions; and Noah walked with God.

LONDON,

Printed by M. Simmons for Livewell Chapman
at the Crotone in Popes-bead-Alley, 1654.

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SUPREAME AUTHORITIE

the Parliament of the Com

mon-wealth of England.

RIGHT HONOURABLE;

S the Lord Jehovah when hee first chofe Ifrael to be a peculiar people to himselfe out of all the Nations of the world, did give unto them righteous Judges, Mofes, Jofua, Gideon, Sampson, Samuel, &c. fuch as were after his own heart, and of his owne rayfing up: So is it his promife to his people in the laft dayes (before the droffe of Sion fhall be taken away, and her tinn pur ged, and thee called the City of righteoufnefs, the faithfull City) that the

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will restore their Judges as AT THE FIRST, and their Counsellors as AT THE BEGINNING, Ifai. 1. 25, 26. How high the faith and expectations of Gods people of late yeares have been as to the accomplishment ofthese things is knowne to many, and what unceffant prayers have beene put up to the Throne of grace for the fame is best knowne to the Lord. That you are rayfed up this day to be the repayrers of our breaches, and the restorers of paths to dwell in, is (wee hope) the long expected and much looked for fruit of this our faith and prayer; wch as it doth cause rejoycing within many hearts, fo hath it fixed the eyes of moft upon you to obferve what great thing that is which God by you is about to do for his poor people.

Not to teach you (Right Honourable) what is your work, but to declare what that is which the Lord in the age we live in is about to do, and expects his people fhould eye and fol low him in, is the defign of this little

Treatife,

Treatife, which although it had its conception fome moneths fince, and was then defigned for other hands, yet could it not be brought forth untill this day, in which it cafts it felfe into yours, not fo much feeking Protection (for what is truth will ftand of it felf, and what is not fhall fall, though by men protected) as that it might hereby become the more ferviceable to that great intereft it pleads for, in dóing of which the Author hath obtained whatsoever is herein his end, defire or joy.

And now (Right Honourable) God having rayfed you up, and put intọ your hands fo great an opportunity, fet not the fame be loft for want of any improvement which may be made thereof this is your day to honour God, and férve your Generation; let this day flip, and it may be hereafter when you would doe the thing, you fhall not have a day to doe it. Men, wife men, good men have fallen before you by putting off, and neglecting the A 3 worke