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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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The Tenth Divine Maxim or §10Conclusion is this, Viz.
The Tenth Divine Maxime or §10Conclusion is this, Viz.
That such saints as do fall by the sword or by the pestilence, they receive ⟨p. 67⟩no loss, no wrong, no injury, by these sad dispensations; they gain much, but they lose nothing; for by these sad providences they are but hastened to heaven, to their fathers house, to their eternal homes, and to those blessed mansions 1that Christ hath prepared for them.
Elijah went to heaven in a fiery 1Chariot; and many thousand of the Martyrs went to heaven in fiery Chariots, and in bloody Chariots; and doubtless, many worthies in this day are gone to heaven in a pestilential Chariot, as in a Chair of State. Heaven is a place of so much pleasure and delight, that they are happy that can