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A heavenly cordial for all those servants of the Lord that have had the…
A heavenly cordial for all those servants of the Lord that have had the plague ... , or, Thirteen divine maxims, or conclusions, in respect of the pestilence which may be as so many supports, comforts and refreshing springs, both to the visited and preserved people of God in this present day : also ten arguments to prove that in times of common calamity the people of God do stand upon the advantage ground as to their outward preservation and protection ... : also eight reasons why some of the precious servants of the Lord have fallen by the pestilence in this day of the Lords anger / by Thomas Brooks.A heavenly cordial for all those servants of the Lord that have had the plague ... , or, Thirteen divine maximes, or conclusions, in respect of the pestilence which may be as so many supports, comforts and refreshing springs, both to the visited and preserved people of God in this present day : also ten arguments to prove that in times of common calamity the people of God do stand upon the advantage ground as to their outward preservation and protection ... : also eight reasons why some of the precious servants of the Lord have fallen by the pestilence in this day of the Lords anger / by Thomas Brooks.
London : Printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock, 1666
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Fifthly, If you consider the common carriage and deportment of God towards his people in former times of calamities and great Judgments. Did he not provide an Ark for righteous Noah, so that Noah was safer in his Ark of three Stories ⟨p. 23⟩high, than Nimrod and his crew were in their Tower of Babel, raised to the height of five thousand 1one hundred forty six paces, as is reported. And did he not provide a Zoar for righteous Lot. Hesiod speaks of thirty thousand Demigods that were keepers of men. But what are so many thousand gods to that one God that neither 2slumbers nor sleeps, but day and night keeps his people as his Jewels, as the apple of his eye, that keepeth them in his pavilion, as a 3Prince keeps his Favourite. Princes have their retiring rooms and withdrawing Chambers, which are sacred places; and so hath God his, and there he shelters the Favourites of Heaven. Gods gracious Providence is his golden Cabinet, where his children are as safe as if they were in Heaven. See Isa. 49. 2. Isa. 26. 20, 21. Jer. 36. 26. Psal. 83. 3. They have consulted against thy hidden ones, hidden under the hollow of thy hand, and under the shadow of thy wing, and therefore ⟨p. 24⟩safe from dangers in the midst of dangers, Jer. 39. 16, 17, 18. How wonderfully did he preserve the three children (or rather the three Non-conformable Champions) from burning in the midst of the flames, Dan. 3. and Daniel from being devoured in the Lyons Den,