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

5ly. If these things be so; how infinitely are we all beholden unto Jesus Christ, upon whose account 'tis that the Angels are your attendants in this time of the Plague and sickness; he is the ladder that Jacob saw: Christs explains that ladder himself; You shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man; 'tis upon Christs account, all the ministry of angels is upon Christs account: here you have more than Adam had in the state of innocency; whom Adam fell, then you read indeed of the Cherubims set to keep the tree of life, to keep Paradise; but you don't read that before the fall he had the angels to minister to him; but now in and by Jesus Christ, we have the ministration of angels, we are reconciled unto all the angels, and not only so, but they are brought in to be our attendants. Oh blessed be God for Christ! why should we not say, I love thee dearly, O Lord my Saviour, by whom I am made partaker of this infinite privilege of the ministration of angels.

5ly. If these things be so; how infinitely are we all beholden unto Jesus Christ, upon whose account 'tis that the Angels are your attendants in this time of the Plague and sickness; he is the ladder that Jacob saw: Christs explains that ladder himself; You shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man; 'tis upon Christs account, all the ministry of angels is upon Christs account: here you have more than Adam had in the state of innocency; whem Adam fell, then you read indeed of the Cherubims set to keep the tree of life, to keep Paradise; but you don't read that before the fall he had the angels to minister to him; but now in and by Jesus Christ, we have the ministration of angels, we are reconciled unto all the angels, and not only so, but they are brought in to be our attendants. Oh blessed be God for Christ! why should we not say, I love thee dearly, O Lord my Saviour, by whom I am made partaker of this infinite priviledge of the ministration of angels.

6ly. If these things be so; what a mighty difference is ⟨p. 17⟩there betwixt the godly and the wicked, even in the time of the Plague. Your great desire in this sickness time, is that God would make a difference betwixt the one and the other; whatever outward difference there is, I am sure there is this difference, the Saints and people of God have the angels to attend upon them, but the wicked have not. The Corn and the weeds are cut down by the same sith, by the same stroke; but the corn and the weeds are differenced. Two men, a godly man and a wicked man, lay sick of the Plague at the same time: the wicked man hath little or no attendance when his friends leave him, it may be he hath no body to attend him, except it be a halberteer at the door; no Angels to attend him: but the good man, when all his friends are gone then come the Angels and comfort him, and attend upon him and he may comfort himself, and say, though my friends have left me, yet here are the Lords Angels to look to me and comfort me. What a mighty difference is there betwixt the one and the other? Oh who would not be godly? who would not get into Christ upon this very account?