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The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief…
The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief exposition of the XCI. Psalm / by William Bridge.
London: printed for T.J., 1665
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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?
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 sythe, by the same stroak; 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?