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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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Fourthly, No godly man dies §4in any common calamity, till his 1glass be run, and his work done, and he prepared and fitted for another world: Job 14. 5. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. God hath set every man both his time and his task. In this Scripture as in a glass you may see the true reason why some likely to live long, die soon, even whilst their bones are full of marrow, and their breasts are full of milk, and others that are more weak and infirm, live long, yea very long; the reason is, because God hath set bounds to every mans life to a very day, I, to a very hour. vers. 14. All the days of my appointed time (or warfare) will I wait till my change come, i. e. till my death, Job calls death a change. Death is not an annihilation or extinction, but a mutation.
Fourthly, No godly man dies §4in any common calamity, till his 1glass be run, and his work done, and he prepared and fitted for another world: Job 14. 5. Seeing his dayes are determined, the number of his moneths are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. God hath set every man both his time and his task. In this Scripture as in a glasse you may see the true reason why some likely to live long, die soon, even whilest their bones are full of marrow, and their breasts are full of milk, and others that are more weak and infirm, live long, yea very long; the reason is, because God hath set bounds to every mans life to a very day, I, to a very hour. vers. 14. All the dayes of my appointed time (or warfare) will I wait till my change come, i. e. till my death, Job calls death a change. Death is not an annihilation or extinction, but a mutation.