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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 4ly. you may observe, if you look into this story, that ⟨p. 22⟩the Lord repented him, and gave command for the staying of the Pestilence before David repented. I confess there is somewhat of his repentance before. But afterwards David said unto God (1 Chron. 21. 17.) is it not I that have commanded the people to be numbered? even I, it is I that have sinned and done evil indeed; let thine hand I pray thee, O Lord, my God, be on me and on my fathers house, but not on this people that they should be plagued. David lift up his eyes, (in the 16. v.) and saw the Angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over against Jerusalem; and then follows the speech of David. But if you look before, you shall find the Lord made an abatement before this speech of his, before this humiliation of his; the Lord showed mercy and gave him his choice before, in the 2 Sam. 24. 16. And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, it is enough, stay now thine hand; and the Angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunath the Jebusite. And David spake unto the Lord, when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, lo, I have said, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my fathers house, at the 17. verse; but the Lord repented him, at the 16. verse; as if the Lord did prevent David's repentance with his loving kindness; before his full repentance came out, the Lord gave commission to stay the Plague: look well upon this story, and you may see how ready the Lord is to show mercy, and to be entreated by his people in the time of a Plague.
But 4ly. you may observe, if you look into this story, that ⟨p. 22⟩the Lord repented him, and gave command for the staying of the Pestilence before David repented. I confess there is somewhat of his repentance before. But afterwards David said unto God (1 Chron. 21. 17