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

4ly. If these things be so; how good and gracious is the Lord unto you, you that are the Saints and people of God? how good and gracious is the Lord to you? no sooner had David said Psal. 34. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them; but the next words he subjoins, Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. ⟨p. 16⟩Ay, here you may taste and see the goodness of the Lord indeed, in the ministration of angels; that the angels nurse you, and carry you up and down in their arms: the more you look into this, the more you will see how good and gracious the Lord is. In the 8th. Psalm, when David had considered the creatures round, Lord (says he) what is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him; for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, for a time; all sheep and oxen, and all creatures thou hast put under his feet: He begins the Psalm thus, Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! and because his heart was full of the sense of Gods love, he ends the Psalm with the same words, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ay, this is a taking thing indeed; here you may see how gracious and good the Lord is to you.

4ly. If these things be so; how good and gracious is the Lord unto you, you that are the Saints and people of God? how good and gracious is the Lord to you? no sooner had David said Psal. 34. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them; but the next words he subjoyns, Oh tast and see that the Lord is good. ⟨p. 16⟩Ay, here you may tast and see the goodness of the Lord indeed, in the ministration of angels; that the angels nurse you, and carry you up and down in their armes: the more you look into this, the more you will see how good and gracious the Lord is. In the 8th. Psalm, when David had considered the creatures round, Lord (says he) what is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him; for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, for a time; all sheep and oxen, and all creatures thou hast put under his feet: He begins the Psalm thus, Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! and because his heart was full of the sense of Gods love, he ends the Psalm with the same words, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ay, this is a taking thing indeed; here you may see how gracious and good the Lord is to you.