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The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief…
The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief exposition of the XCI. Psalm / by William Bridge.
London: printed for T.J., 1665
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But yet in the second place, there are a generation whom God will protect and deliver in the day of a Plague. It was always so in the most desolating judgements: when the Flood came was Noah and his house spared; and, when Sodom was destroyed, there was Lot and his house preserved and delivered. In the 6th. Chapter of Isaiah, ye read of a Desolation that looks like a Plague, Then said I, Lord, How long? And he answered (at the 11th verse) until his cities be wasted and without inhabitants, and the houses be without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men far away: Yet, says he, at the 13 verse, There shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teil tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them, &c. yet there is a generation whom the Lord will preserve and deliver in such a general desolation as this. But who are these? this Psalm tells us, they are such as do trust in the Lord; those that trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague.
But yet in the second place, there are a generation whom God will protect and deliver in the day of a Plague. It was alwayes so in the most desolating judgements: when the Floud came was Noah and his house spared; and, when Sodom was destroyed, there was Lot and his house preserved and delivered. In the 6th. Chapter of Isaiah, ye read of a Desolalation that looks like a Plague, Then said I, Lord, How long? And he answered (at the 11th verse) until his cities be wasted and without inhabitants, and the houses be without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men far away: Yet, sayes he, at the 13 verse, There shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teyle tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them, &c. yet there is a generation whom the Lord will preserve and deliver in such a general desolation as this. But who are these? this Psalm tells us, they are such as do trust in the Lord; those that trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague.
But why is there such a promise of protection entailed upon those that trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague? why, first of all, God will be all that to us which we make him, and build upon him for: as in the 31 Psalm 2