Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

3. Consider you had no better Preservatives, nor Cordials, then many others had, that yet by the Plague are laid silent in the Grave, and are now resting in the dust; and others, that now are dead, used the same means as you did, and it may be more, and better too, and yet God denied his blessing to the use of those means that were more probable to prevent Infection then yours were; by this you may be convinced, that it was the hand of God that hath preserved you: and therefore by this, you should be obliged to remember, and keep upon your heart a sense of Gods mercy towards you.

3. Consider you had no better Preservatives, nor Cordials, then many others had, that yet by the Plague are laid silent in the Grave, and are now resting in the dust; and others, that now are dead, used the same meanes as you did, and it may be more, and better too, and yet God denyed his blessing to the use of those meanes that were more probable to prevent Infection then yours were; by this you may be convinced, that it was the hand of God that hath preserved you: and therefore by this, you should be obliged to remember, and keep upon your heart a sense of Gods mercy towards you.

4. Consider you have been in more visible danger; and, when you were called, did venture further then many others did: some were more reserved, ⟨p. 269⟩and kept from Company more than you have done; being called to Duty, where Visited Persons have been, as to help them that were sick of this Distemper, &c. and yet some that lived more retiredly, and kept themselves more close, were Visited, and are dead, and yet you have escaped, this is the finger of Divine Providence, and will you let the sense of this wear off from your heart?

4. Consider you have been in more visible danger; and, when you were called, did venture further then many others did: some were more reserved, ⟨p. 269⟩