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A29694	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.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1666 (1666)	Wing B4948; ESTC R29135	31,420	88

hear Sermon more nor never read the Word more nor never enjoy the prayers of the people of God more nor never taste any of the dainties of Gods House more c. Fourthly It will put a full period to the patience forbearance and long-suffering of God Rom. 2. 4 5. Fifthly It will put a full period to all the pleasures of sin Now the sinner shall never have one merry day more In Hell there is no singing but howling no musick but madness no sporting but sighing no dancing but wringing or hands and gnashing of teeth for evermore c. Sixthly It will put a full period to all gracious reprieves The sinner in his life time hath had many a reprieve from many executions of wrath and judgement Oh but now he shall never have one reprieve more Seventhly It will put a full period to all the strivings of the Holy Spirit Now the Spirit shall Gen. 6. 3. Rev. 3. 20. never strive with the sinner more now Christ will never knock at the sinners door at the sinners heart more c. Eighthly and lastly It will put a full period to all gracious examples Now the sinner shall never cast his eye upon one gracious example more The sinner in his life time hath had many gracious examples before his eyes which it may be at times have had an awakening convincing silenceing and restraining power in them Oh but now he shall never have his eye upon one pious example more All hell will not afford one good example In a word now the sinner shall find by woful experience that death will be an inlet to three dreadful things 1. To judgement Heb. 9. 27. 2. To an irreversible sentence of condemnation Matth. 25. 41. 3. To endless easeless and remediless sufferings Not many years since in the Town of Yarmouth there was a young man who being very weak and nigh to the grave and under the apprehensions of the wrath of God and supposing that he was presently going down to the Pit to Hell he cried out O that God would spare me but two dayes O that God would spare me but two dayes O that God would spare me but two dayes This poor creature trembled at the very thoughts of wrath to come O who can dwell with everlasting burning who can dwell with a devouring fire Isa 33. 14. And as death is terrible to the sinner so it is desirable comfortable and joyful to a Child of God Cant. 8. ult Luke 2. 27 28 29 30 31 32. 2 Cor. 5. 1 2 4 8. Phil. 1. 23. Rev. 22. 20 I desire death saith Melancthon that I may enjoy the desirable sight of Christ And When will that blessed hour come when shall I be dissolved when shall I be with Christ said holy Mr. Bolton when he lay on his dying bed Jewel was offended at one that in his sickness prayed for his life One whom I knew well a little before his death after a sharp conflict cryed out three times Victory Much more to this purpose you may find in my Saints Portion and in my String of Pearls Victory Victory he breathed out his soul his Doxology together Thanks be to God for Jesus Christ and so conquered Satan in his last encounter The dying words of my young Lord Harrington were these O my God when shall I be with thee Shall I die ever saith Austin yes or shall I die at all yes sayes he Lord if ever why not now When Modestus the Emperours Lieutenant threatned to kill Basil he answered If that be all I fear not yea your Master cannot more pleasure me than in sending of me unto my heavenly Father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to basten Mr. Deering a little before his death being raised up in his bed and seeing the Sun shine was desired to speak his mind upon which he said There is but one Sun that giveth light to the whole world but one righteousness one communion of saints as concerning death I see such joy of spirit that if I should have pardon of life on the one side and sentence of death on the other I had rather chuse a thousand times to die than to live So Mr. John Holland lying at the point of death said What brightness do I see and being told it was the sun-shine No saith he My Saviour shines now farewel world welcome heaven the day-star from on high hath visited me Preach at my funeral God dealeth comfortably and familiarly with man I feel his mercy I see his majesty whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell God he knoweth but I see things that are unutterable Mr. Knox found so much comfort from the Scriptures upon his death-bed that he would have risen and have gone into the Pulpit to tell others what he had felt in his soul And by that information that I have had from some good hands several precious Christians that have lately died of the plague have gone to heaven under as high a spirit of joy of comfort of assurance and of a holy triumph as any of the last mentioned worthies or as any other that ever I heard of or read of the remembrance of which hath been and still is a singular Cordial to all their relations and friends that yet survive them But as I was saying No godly man falls in any Common Calamity till his glasse be run and his work done so I say of all those dear servants of the Lord that have fallen by the pestilence in the midst of us their hour was come and John 7. 30. chap. 8. 19 20. 2 Tim. 4. 6 7. their course was finished Had God had any further doing work or suffering work or bearing work or witnessing work for them in this world 't was not all the Angels in heaven nor all the malignant diseases in the world that could ever have cut them off from the land of the living When Lazarus was dead his two sisters John 11. 21 32. Martha and Mary came to Christ with tears in their eyes and sad complaints in their mouths Lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not died said Martha and Lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not died said Mary And is not this the common language of many this day when such and such precious Christians have fallen by the pestilence Oh if such a Physitian had been here they had not died or if they had been let blood they had not died or if they had taken such a potion they had not died or if they had eat but of such or such meats they had not died or if they had not lived in such a foggy air they had not died or if they had not been shut up in such close narrow nasty rooms and places they had not died or had they been but so wise and happy as to have applyed such or such a remedy they might have been alive to this day Not

us and quiet us how should this cool us and calm us how should this satisfie us and silence us before the Lord and cause us to lay our hands upon our mouths as David did Psal 39. 9. and as Aaron did Lev. 10. 1 2 3. and as Ely did 1 Sam. 3. 18. and as the Church did Lament 3. 26 27 28 29. Solinus writeth of Hypanis a Scythian Cap. 20. River that the water thereof is very bitter as it passeth thorow Exampius yet very sweet in the spring So the cup of trembling which is this day offered to the children of God is often very bitter at the second hand or as it appears in second causes and yet it is sweet at the first hand yea it is very sweet as it is reacht to them by a hand from heaven and therefore they may well say as their Head and Husband hath done before them Shall we not drink of the Cup that our Father hath given us to drink of c. The Second Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. The Pestilence and all other Judgements of God are limited as to places Hence it comes to pass that God shoots his arrows of Pestilence into one City and not into another into one Town and not into another into one Family and not into another into one Kingdome and Countrey and not into another Exod. 8. 20 21 22 23. and Exod. 9. 22 23 24 25 26. 2 Sam. 24. 15. Turn to all these Scriptures and ponder upon them The Third Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. All the Judgements of God are limited not onely to places but also to persons And therefore such and such must fall when such and such must escape and such and such must be infected when such and such are preserved Hence 't is that one is taken in the Bed and the other left one smitten at the Table or in the House and all the rest preserved in perfect health c. God hath numbred so many to the sword and so many to the famine and so many to the pestilence so many to this disease and so many to that 2 Sam. 24. 15 16. Ezek. 11. 5 6 7. Ezek. 5. 12. Ezek. 6. 11 12. Exod. 12. 13. Psal 91. from vers 3. to v. 9. Isa 65. 12. Jer. 15. 2. Ezek. 33. 27. Turn to all these Scriptures and ponder upon them God marks out those persons that he intends to shoot the arrow of pestilence amongst God never shoots at rovers he never draws his bow at a venture but he singles out the persons that he purposes to hit and his arrows flie swiftly and suddenly yet they hit none but those that God hath set up as a mark to shoot at as Job speaks The Fourth Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. No man knows divine love or hatred by outward dispensations Eccl. 9. 1 2. Luke 13. 4 16. Lam. 4. 6. Dan. 9. 12. Psal 73. 12 13 14 15 21 22. In time of great judgements God sometimes spares those whom his soul hates and abhors Isa 1. 5. Hos 4. 14 17. God sometimes preserves wicked men from great judgements that they may fall by greater judgements as you may see in Sodom and her sisters which were preserved from the slaughter of the four Kings that God might rain down Hell out of Heaven upon them And so Sennacherib escapes the stroke of the destroying Angel that he might fall by the sword of his own sons Isa 37. 37 38. And as in times of great judgements God sometimes spares those sinners that his soul hates so in times of great judgements God takes away those whom his soul dearly loves 2 Cor. 34. 27 28. Turn to it In all the considerable plagues that have been in this Nation how many precious Christians have fallen by the sword and by the hand of the destroying Angel when many thousands of Balaks and Balaams I mean the worst of men have escaped the sword the plague c. And is there any thing more obvious and notorious this day than this surely not The Fifth Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. The Lord sometimes takes away his dearest people by some one judgement that so he may by that means deliver them from many judgements and sometimes he takes away his people by one great judgement that so they may escape many other greater judgements that he intends to bring upon the Earth And thus good Josiah was slain in battel yet because he lived not to see the woful miseries of succeeding times he is said to go to his grave in peace 2 Chron. 34. 27 28. Turn to it Henoch lived long in a little time and God took him to heaven before he brought a sweeping Flood upon the world but he fore seeing the Flood named his son Methuselah that is to say He dyeth and the dart or flood cometh and so it fell out for no sooner was his head laid but in came the Flood And so Augustine was taken out of the world before Hyppo was taken by the Vandals And so Paraus was gotten to his better Countrey before Heidelbergh and the Palatinate was delivered into the power of the enemies Ambrose is said to have been the Walls of Italy and when he died the Earl Stilico said That his death did threaten destruction to that Countrey And when Luther was laid in his grave then troubles wars desolations and confusions came in upon Germany like a flood The righteous are taken away Isa 57. 1. from the evil to come and their death is a sad presage of sore and signal calamities that are hastening upon the world Of late many precious servants of Christ are fallen asleep but who knows what a day of wrath is coming When a man cuts down his chiefest timber-trees it is an argument that he intends to part with his land and how many tall Cedars in this our Lebanon hath God lately cut down in the midst of us Therefore we have eminent cause to be importunate with God that he would neither part with this Nation nor depart from this Nation When some fatal judgement hovers like a flying fiery scrole over a Nation God many times gathers many of his choice servants unto himself that he may preserve them from the evil to come The Sixth Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. None of Gods judgements upon his people ever make any change or alteration of Gods affections towards his people However his hand may be against them yet his love his heart his favour his affections in Jesus is still one and the same to them Isa 54. 7 8 9 10. Isa 49. 14 15 16. Psal 89. 31 32 33 34. Jer. 31. 3● 35 36 37. compared Malach. 3. 6. John 13. 3. James 1. 17. Ponder seriously upon all these Scriptures So when God sent the plague upon Davids people and that for Davids sin too yet how sweetly how lovingly how tenderly how compassionately how indulgently doth the Lord carry it towards David himself 2