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A71105	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 ...	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1175; Wing T1177; Wing T1178; ESTC R17254	317,518	510

mighty Thundrings saying Hallelujah It teacheth us thus much That Christ will raise up some such faithful Instrument to bee his Lieutenant General to lead on this his 144000 whose name shall be as a great Thunder in the world dreadful and terrible to the Antichristian party And whereas it is the voyce of but one Thunder it intimates that at this first Rendezvouz there shall appear but some one noted Head for Christ but a while after when the work is gotten a little forwarder we hear of many Thundrings Rev. 19.6 i.e. many great One Heads Rulers who either wanted opportunity or courage at first shall now come in and joyn with this party 2 They shall begin their march with praises The Lamb being now upon Mount Sion his remnant gathered about him an eminent Head by Christ raised up and set over them the first work they do is to sing praises I heard the voyce of Harpers harping with their Harps The Holy Ghost in these words alludes to the way of praising God in time of Old when Gods people in their praises made use of Instruments of Musick and particularly and as that which was in most common use of the Harp Psal 33.2 Psal 43.4 Psal 71.22 And methinks the first setting forth of the 144000. seems to be much like Jehoshaphats march against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir 2 Chron. 20. An infinite multitude of people and Nations like the sand of the Sea come up together against Jehoshaphat and Judah The noise and rumor of their coming doth 〈…〉 ●istress the people but seeking God the Lord setting it home upon the heart of Jehoshaphat and his people that the morrow should be the day of his power he would do the work for them they should not need so much as to fight only stand and behold the salvation of the Lord fear and faint-heartedness now flyes away they do not consult whether are we strong or whether are we weak how is it possible we should deal with this multitude But being assured of the Victory and that the day should be theirs they begin a March with pr●●●es singing and rejoycing before ever a stroke is struck as if they had carried the Field already So will it be with this remnant at this day the raging Dragon in his wrath and fury comes on gaping upon them It is a miracle in reason if ever they scape his mouth but against this to bear up their spirits they have the glorious presence of the Lamb in the midst of them this doth so wondrously animate them that in the mouth of danger they fear none but march o● in the very face of the Dragon harping with their Harps i. e. praising and rejoycing as knowing assuredly the Lamb will manifest his power they shall tread the Dragon under their feet Thus much as touching our second particular from the whole note That notwithstanding the Witnesses themselves are undoubtedly after their rise to be esteemed a part of this 144000 yet shall the beginning of this glorious company be not with them but there where that remnant of the Womans seed shall be found th● the Dragon wars against I shall here in the close of this Section adde a word or two as touching Daniels Stone the looking upon this Rendezvouz presenting that to mine eye The first rise of this Stone we are doubtless to place with the beginn●●● of the third Vial. My Reasons are 1 Because it being the Stone alone that breaks the Great Image by smiting him on the Feer and Toes we are there to place the rise of it where the Civil power of Antichrist in any of the ten Horns represented by the ten Toes is irrecoverably broken to peeces But the doing of this is begun with the third Vial therefore with the beginning of that are we to place the beginning of the Stone 2 Because Daniels Stone that smites Chap. 2. and his Ancient of dayes that sits Chap. 7. being one and the same we are to reckon the rise of the Stone from the first day that the Ancient of dayes began to sit and to cast down any of the Thrones of the fourth Beast But this work was begun with the beginning of the third Vial therefore there are we to begin the Stone Now let us look upon the work done of late yeers under either of these notions either as it is a breaking of the great Image or as it is casting down the Thrones of the fourth Beast for both are substantially the same and instrumentally wrought by the Stone and hath it not been done by a despised handful which worldly powers would not have raised up at first could they have holpen it nor continued when raised could they have had their will but as the raising so the continuing hath been from God more immediately than by the endeavour of hands i.e. humane means But now observe as God never doth any wonderful work but in the beginning of it he puts some death upon it so the most remarkable work that ever yet was in the world viz. the Stone smiting the great Image is no sooner on foot but presently even within that very Vial that the Stone begins to smite comes the saddest blow the blackest cloud over the work of God that ever one of them the world saw namely the death of the Witnesses this stops the work a while the Stone lyes still by lying still it seems to moulder In this extremity God ariseth ●●kes the Scone into his hands again forms it more strongly by casting out the loose earthly matter and firmly uniting and cementing the rest adding withal more matter to it that so upon its next smiting it may break in peeces whatsoever stands in its way This is done in this glorious Rendezvouz of which we have spoken SECT V. OUr third Particular comes now into consideration namely to consider of the Characters of this 144000. As for the several Characters we have vers 3.4 I have given my thoughts of them already in the Epistle Dedicatory to my late Discourse upon the Vials But what I then wrote being but as the first day-break of light into this Prophecie and hoping through grace that I do now begin to see those things a little more clearly distinctly and fully than at that time I did I shall notwithstanding go over the whole again The first Character of them viz. That they stand with the Lamb upon Mount Sion relating more to their condition than their qualification I shall be silent as touching it and the rather because I have opened it already Sect. 1. That omitted we have besides it eight Characters in the Text. I CHARACTER They have their Fathers Name written in their fore-heads vers 1. i.e. they shall bee such who shall know one another by no mark but only the Image of the Father the Fathers Name written in their-fore-heads And I take it that this is spoken of the 144000 followers of the Lamb in opposition to the Beasts followers

another and although the more publick and general any mans imployment is the more he is in a capacity to do yet is there no man unless we could suppose some universal Officer over Nations and Churches which might lawfully act in every mars sphere which is in a capacity to do the whole work Observe therefore what work thou art in a capacity to do And here it will not be unnecessary to take into our mature consideration the place and station God hath set a man in the special gift a man may have the light revealed to him together with the opportunities that lie before him either of which may put some men into a capacity beyond others to act in some one business of their Generation rather then another Now what work soever any of these or a●l of them joyned together do put a man into a capacity of acting the dispensations of that age calling to the performance of such things for in Generation-work as hath been proved dispensation gives the Call a man may safely conclude that to be his work in his Generation which as Gods dispensations call him to so God himself will either here or hereafter strictly require an account of him how he hath done the same 2 Observe what work that is amongst those things thou art in a capacity to do in thy Generation which the dispensations of God without and the bent or inclination of the Spirit within at such time as the same is most spiritual or thou hast most intimate communion with God calls for the present doing thereof For it is most certain that every thing that a man is in a capacity to do he is not called alike to the doing of I may be in a capacity to do many things in my Generation and my Call to some of these things may be greater to others less my Call may be to some for the present to others for the future Now to find out which of these my Call lyes first unto it is most necessary to observe which Gods dispensations call loudest for as that which is as it were the hinge upon which the rest of the work doth turn and which if neglected nothing else can or is ever likely as it should be to be done to which although the essence of the Call lyes here yet if also here be added rather as matter of inducement than a bottome for a Call this other observation How my spirit stands at such times when I am most spiritual most dis-ingaged from private interests and most intimately familiar with God and most resolved to follow him which are the ordinary times of the holy Spirits speaking to the attempting of these things and if then I find the impulse of my soul strongly bending and inclining that way that the dispensations of God would lead me I may then conclude the dispensations of God without and the Spirit of God within as in themselves they ever agree so also now in witnessing the self-same thing to me that here doth lye that special peece of work which amongst the things I am in a capacity to do God calls aloud for the present doing of The call of a Dispensation without viz. Gods being risen to deliver his people and an impulse of spirit within putting man-like courage into a woman was the onely thing moved Jael to attempt that dangerous yet memorable act of slaying Sisera Judg. 5.24 25. Yea what other Call the Judges of Israel who Deborah the Prophetess excepted were not Prophets for the holy Ghost calls them Judges and that in a way of distinction from Prophets He gave them Iudges about the space of 450 years until Samuel the Prophet Act. 13.20 Yea after Moses Samuel of a man is the first Prophet extraordinarily gifted read of as Act. 3.24 Yea all the Prophets from Samuel and those that follow after I saw what Call these Judges had only Gideon Sampson and Deborah that we read of having extraordinary Calls except the Call of a dispensation the bondage Gods people were in and a secret impulse of Spirit wrought in them by the Lord stirring them up to endeavour their deliverance I cannot my self determine and therefore leave the doing thereof to others 3 Observe what peece of Generation work that is which when thou hast ventured on it thou hast found God most eminently appearing to thee for thy encouragement and also with thee for assistance in doing of it and know that the prosecution of that is properly thy work in thy generation Joshuah's special and principal work in his Generation was the rooting out the Canaanites and it was in this work that God did most eminently appear to Ioshuah both for encouragement in the beginning of the enterprize as Chap. 1.5 6. and with his assistance carrying of it on until the same was perfected as the story shews us 4 Observe what peece of Generation-work that is which thou being in a capacity to do in doing of art like to meet with greatest opposition and that from all hands and stick to that as thy work in thy Generation Christ when he was here on earth had two great works the one relating to his Prophetical Office which was to publish the glad tidings of salvation the other to his Priestly which was to dye for poor sinners In the first of these he is opposed both by the Devil the world and a professing party and in the last by one from whom one would least expect it even his beloved Disciple Peter acted by Satan to oppose him in this work 5 Observe what peece of Generation-work that is which when thou hast had a call an opportunity and an inclination to do it and hast not set about the same God hath presently with-drawn himself Gods usual way is to check his peoples neglects especially in Generation-work by with-drawing himself as hath been fully cleared in the foregoing Discourse under that branch discovering the danger of neglecting Generation-work in respect of our loss of communion with God thereby If therefore such a with-drawing thou art or hast been sensible of and these to grow upon such neglects lest there come a greater after-clap this being but Gods warning-peece minde better than yet thou hast done that work upon neglect whereof thou hast sensibly found these withdrawings and know the same is properly thy work in thy Generation 6 Observe what peece of Generation-work that is which put the case thou wert to dye would make most for thy comfort if done and most for thy discomfort if neglected Some work there is which men have to do for God in their Generations which if the messenger of Death should come and the same not done the heart would cry O spare me a little that I may recover my strength to do this and the other work not yet done by me as it should before I go hence and be no more seen Now know this for certain that that work which if I were now to die would afflict me because not done