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

But 3ly. Though the angels may be thus employed, the destroyer, and the protector; yet this is certain, that all protection of the Saints falls into the hands and the lap of the good angels, for he shall give his angels charge over thee; his, why his? in distinction from the devils and evil angels, that did not stay by him, but left him in the time of their apostasy: and they shall bear thee in their arms; Devils don't bear the Saints in their arms, therefore the business of the Saints protection, this falls wholly upon the good angels to do; but look, I say, when the destroying angel is abroad, then is a fit time for the protecting angel to be abroad too. ⟨p. 12⟩Now in the time of the Plague and pestilence, the destroying angel is abroad; therefore then especially is the good angel to be at work for the protection of the Saints.

But 3ly. Though the angels may be thus employed, the destroyer, and the protectour; yet this is certain, that all protection of the Saints falls into the hands and the lap of the good angels, for he shall give his angels charge over thee; his, why his? in distinction from the devils and evil angels, that did not stay by him, but left him in the time of their apostacy: and they shall bear thee in their armes; Devils don't bear the Saints in their armes, therefore the business of the Saints protection, this falls wholly upon the good angels to do; but look, I say, when the destroying angel is abroad, then is a fit time for the protecting angel to be abroad too. ⟨p. 12⟩Now in the time of the Plague and pestilence, the destroying angel is abroad; therefore then especially is the good angel to be at work for the protection of the Saints.

4ly. The time of the Plague, is a time when the Saints and people of God may want outward provision, good people may be shut up and starved for want of victuals, in the time of the Plague: Now 'tis the work of the good angels to provide meat and victuals for the people of God sometimes. In the first of Kings 19. vers. 5. 'tis said of Elijah, that as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat, and he looked, and behold there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head; and he did eat and drank, and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee, &c.