Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	disease_n	empty_v	unavoidable_a	84	3	17.5876	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29370	The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief exposition of the XCI. Psalm / by William Bridge.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1665 (1665)	Wing B4460; ESTC R34367	31,468	50

time of a plague Then call upon you and my self to do our duty in this Day As for the first I shall not be long in it The misery and danger of the Plague is sufficiently known It is called the Plague above all other diseases as if it were the Plague of plagues The several and particular judgments and evils that fell upon Pharaoh they were called Plagues they were all plagues but now the Pestilence carries the name of the Plague as if that of all other diseases were the plague of plagues It is first of all a most dreadful and terrible disease it is here called in this Psalm the terrour by night 5. verse Thou shalt not be afraid by the terrour by night terrour by night why the night it self is a time of fear and terrour darkness brings fear but the Plague is the Night of nights and the King of Terrours How do men quake and tremble and fly away at the noise of this the report of this When God appeared in his greatness majesty and glory gave a terrible appearance of himself 't is said in the third of Habakkuk that the Pestilence went before him in the 3d. verse God came from Teman and the Holy One from mount Paran Selah His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise and his brightness was as the light He had horns coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power In the 5. verse Before him went the pestilence and burning coals went forth at his feet Before him went the Pestilence as his Officer and Executioner When the Lord doth set forth his terrible appearance thus he sets it forth The pestilence went before him Without all doubt it is that disease that is most dreadful and terrible And 2ly as 't is the most dreadful and terrible disease so it is the most painful disease The more suddenly any man is taken away in his strength the more painful is his disease he dies of a man that is spent with sickness he is easily blown out but when a man in his full strength shall suddenly dye it costs him a great deal of paio Thus it is when the Plague takes one away in his full strength in a little time therefore it is a very painful disease and as it is a very painful disease so 't is an uncomfortable disease then all friends leave us then a man or woman sit and lye all alone and is a stranger to the breath of his own relations If a man be sick of a feaver 't is some comfort that he can take a bed-staff and knock and his servant comes up and helps him with a cordial But if a man be sick of the Plague then he sits and lyes all alone 't is the most uncomfortable disease and as it is that disease that is most uncomfortable so 't is that disease that is most mortal and therefore of all other diseases 't is called Death In the sixth of the Revelation we read of the sword and famine in the former part of the Chapter but in the 8th verse And I looked and behold a pale horse and his name that sate on him was Death The sword is spoken of plainly before in the 4th verse And there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword there 's the Sword then at the 6th verse there 's a Famine I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say A measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny Now at the 8th verse comes on the Pestilence and that is called Death not the sword or famine but the Plague is that which hath the name of Death because of all other diseases it is the most mortal and as it is the most mortal disease so 't is the most unavoidable disease It may be avoided through the goodness of God but I speak comparatively of all diseases 't is the most unavoidable And 't is the disease that is the most emptying disease it empties houses and it empties towns and empties cities God threatens to empty a Nation as a man empties a dish and wipes it and turns it upside down So to a family it is the most emptying disease of all other But I will not stay here 't is too manifest that this evil misery and danger of a Plague is exceeding great But yet in the second place there are a generation whom God will protect and deliver in the day of a Plague It was alwayes so in the most desolating judgements when the Floud came was Noah and his house spared and when Sodom was destroyed there was Lot and his house preserved and delivered In the 6th Chapter of Isaiah ye read of a Desolalation that looks like a Plague Then said I Lord How long And he answered at the 11th verse until his cities be wasted and without inhabitants and the houses be without man and the land be utterly desolate and the Lord have removed men far away Yet sayes he at the 13 verse There shall be a tenth and it shall return and shall be eaten as a teyle tree and as an oak whose substance is in them c. yet there is a generation whom the Lord will preserve and deliver in such a general desolation as this But who are these this Psalm tells us they are such as do trust in the Lord those that trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague But why is there such a promise of protection entailed upon those that trust in the Lord in the time of a Plague why first of all God will be all that to us which we make him and build upon him for as in the 31 Psalm 2. 3. v. Be thou my rock for thou art my rock be thou my defence for thou art my fortress in the latter end of the 2d verse Be thou my strong rock for an house of defence to save me for thou art my rock and my fortress Lord be that unto me which I build upon thee for Thou art my rock therefore be my rock this is his argument Now by Faith and trusting in the Lord we do make God our protector and therefore he will be a protector to those that trust unto him in time of a Plague 2ly Those that honour providence shall be kept by providence Jacob what a wonderfull great estate he attained unto he presented Esau with a present fit for a King to give how came he by this great estate there was a controversie betwixt Laban and him and he puts the business upon providence and providence made him rich those that honour providence shall be kept by providence Faith and trusting in God in the time of a Plague honours providence therefore they that trust in God in such a day shall be kept 3ly Thereby God is ingaged