The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief…

But 5ly. If this promise in the 91. Psalm, which is nothing else but a promise in the time of a Plague, if this promise be full, and certain, and solid, as it may obviate all our fears and objections; why then should we not trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague? Now, do but mark the Psalm, and you ⟨p. 23⟩shall see the words are so said, as may obviate all your fears and objections.

Will you say the destroying Angels are now abroad, the arrows of the Almighty are now about us, (says he) He will give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways; they shall bear thee up in their hands, least thou dash thy foot against a stone. Will you say, I but hundreds fall on this side and on the other side, and thousands may quickly; then (says he) yet it shall not come nigh thee: there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling, ver. 7, 10.

Will you say, O, but this same disease of the Plague, 'tis like a Lion and an Adder, and as a young Lion and Dragon; yet, saith he, Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder, and the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under thy feet, in the 13. verse.