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

And 3ly. He will give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee; to keep thee: charge over thee, and to keep thee: not only over the whole Church of God, but over every particular member of the Church of God; He will give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: this is his marvellous care.

Well! but besides this, he will give his angels charge to keep thee in all thy ways; not in some of thy ways, but in all thy ways. As Gods providence is particular in regard of our persons, so 'tis universal in regard of our ways. He will give his angels charge ever thee, to keep thee, not in some, but in all thy ways.

Well! but besides this, he will give his angels charge to keep thee in all thy wayes; not in some of thy wayes, but in all thy wayes. As Gods providence is particular in regard of our persons, so 'tis universal in regard of our wayes. He will give his angels charge ever thee, to keepe thee, not in some, but in all thy wayes.

But is this all? no, they shall bear thee up in their hands; as every servant desires and loves to take up the young heir, or the young master into his arms; so the Angels. It is a great matter, that the Lord promiseth to pitch his tents, and the Angels of the Lord shall pitch their tents round about them that Fear him: but here is more, the Angels shall not only pitch their tents, be their guard; but their nurses, to bear them up in their hands: but why? that thou dash not thy foot against a stone: when children begin to go, they are very apt to fall, and get many a knock; to stumble at every little stone: now there are many stones of stumbling that are in our way, and we are very apt to fall and mis-carry; but such is the goodness of God, the providence of God, the goodness of his providence, that as he hath provided his Angels to be our guard, in opposition to all our foreign enemies; so he hath provided his Angels to be our Nurses, in opposition to all our weaknesses and infirmities, that we get no hurt, that we miscarry not in the least, that we dash not our foot against a stone: Oh how tender is the Lord of his! in other Scriptures you know the Lord is said to keep his people as the apple of his eye: what is a man more render of, than the apple of his eye? and when doth the Lord keep his people as the apple of his eye, but when they are lowest, and in the worst condition? In the 32. of Deuteronomy, vers. 10. He found him in a desert land, and in the wast howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. When they came out of Egypt, and when they were in the howling wilderness, the Lord did keep his people then at the apple of his eye: and if you look into the 2d. of Zechariah, you shall find he did the same when they came out of Babylon,