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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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Tenthly and lastly, If you do §10but consider Gods great anger and deep displeasure against those that afflict, oppose, or oppress his people. God sent his people into Babylon, and their enemies added to all their sorrows and sufferings, but will God put this up at their hands? No. Zech. 1. 15. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at case, for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. I am very sorely displeased, &c. Or as 1the Hebrew runs, I am in such a heat as causeth fuming and foaming, I am boiling hot, and even ready to draw upon them, and to cut them off from the Land of the Living. For the Original word here used, hath great affinity with another word that signifieth to cut down and to destroy, 2 Kings 6. 6. and importeth an higher degree of displeasure, a greater height of heat, than either anger or wrath, as may be ⟨p. 40⟩seen in that signal gradation, Deut. 29. 28. The Lord rooted them out of their land, Beaph in anger, Ubechemah and in wrath, Ubeketseph and in great indignation. The last of these three is the word in the Text, and notes a higher degree of anger than the two former. So Mal. 1. 4. Whereas Edom saith, we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, they shall build, but I will throw down, and they shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever. The Edomites were very great enemies to the Israelites, they stood looking on, laughing and rejoicing at Israels destruction; God saw this, and it greatly displeased him (he being highly sensible of the least indignity done to his people) and therefore he is resolved to pay them home in their own coin, Obed. 8. to 19. verse. The very name and memory of the Edomites have long since been extinct and blotted out from under ⟨p. 41⟩