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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

which he shall be brought into the presence of the King of Kings If the plague prove mortal to a godly man or woman it shall do that for them which all ordinances could never do and which all their duties could never do and which all their graces could never do and which all their experiences could never do for them and which all the assistances influences and incomes of the holy spirit could never do for them c. It shall at once free them from all their sins snares sorrows tears temptations afflictions oppressions oppositions vexations and persecutions Death will cure the believer of all his bodily diseases and distempers at once And thus I have done with these Divine Maximes and Conclusions the Lord make them as so many heavenly Cordials to the Christian Reader READER If thou art so ingenious as to be desirous to know what those special Lessons are that thou art to learn by that severe Rod the Pestilence that hath been so long amongst us I must refer thee to my first Epistle before my Treatise on Closet Prayer where thou wilt find Twenty Lessons that we are to learn by that smarting Rod. FINIS In Page 6. line 3 4 5. the sense being disordered by misplaced points let it be thus read in this Kingdome and that in this City and that in this Town and that in this family and that Books printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill NIne Books lately published by Mr. Thomas Brooks late Preacher of the Gospel at St. Margarets New-Fish-street 1 Precious Remedies against Satans Devices Or Salve for Believers and Unbelievers sores 2 Heaven on Earth Or A serious Discourse touching a well-grounded Assurance of mans everlasting happiness and blessedness 3 The Vnsearchable Riches of Christ Or Meat for strong Men and Milk for Babes 4 His Appes of Gold for Young Men and Women And A Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women Or the Happiness of being good betimes and the Honour of being an Old Disciple 5 A String of Pearls Or The best things reserved till last 6 The Silent Soul with Soveraign Antidotes against the most miserable Exigents Or A Christian with an Olive-leaf in his mouth when he is under the greatest afflictions the sharpest and sorest trials and troubles the saddest and darkest providences and changes c. 7 An Ark for all Gods Noah's in a stormy day Wherein is shewed the transcendent excellency of a Believers portion on Lam. 3. 24. 8 The Crown and Glory of Christianity Or Holiness the only way to Happiness discovered in 48. Sermons on Heb. 12. 14. 9 The Privy Key of Heaven Or A Discourse of Closet Prayer Twenty Arguments for it with the resolution of several considerable Questions c. Eight Treatises lately published by Mr. Ralph Venning 1 A Warning to backsliders with means for the recovery of fallen ones on Rev. 2. 5. 2 The way to Happiness opened on Mat. 7. 21. 3 Mercies Memorial or a thankful Remembrance for Gods merciful Deliverance on the 5. of November 1605. on Psal 136. 23. 4 Canaans Flowing or Milk and Honey being a Collation of many Christian Experiences Sayings and Sentences c. 5 His 543. Orthodox and Miscellanious Paradoxes concerning God Christ c. 6 The new Command renewed or love one another 7 Mysteries and Revelations or the Explication of several Allusions and Metaphors in the Scriptures 8 Things worth thinking on or Helps to Piety

A HEAVENLY CORDIAL For all those Servants of the Lord that have had the PLAGVE and are recovered or that now have it also for those that have escaped it though their Relations and Friends have been either visited or swept away by it OR Thirteen DIVINE MAXIMES or CONCLVSIONS 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 above all other people under Heaven 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 late Minister of the Gospel in London LONDON Printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill 1666. A HEAVENLY CORDIAL The First Divine Maxime or Conclusion is this Viz. When the Pestilence is among a People 't is the Lord alone that sends it 2 Sam. 24. 15. Deut. 32 39 Hyppocrates calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Divine Disease because it comes more immediately from God than other diseases do SO the Lord sent a Pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men Numb 16. 46. Wrath is gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun Numb 14. 12. I will smite them with the Pestilence and disinherit them Deut. 28. 21. The Lord shall make the Pestilence cleave unto thee until he hath consumed thee from off the Land whither thou goest to possess it Ezek. 14. 19. Or if I send a Pestilence into that Land and pour out my fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast Verse 21. For thus saith the Lord God how much more when I send my four sore judgements upon Jerusalem the sword and the famine and the noisome beast and the pestilence to cut off from it man and beast Amos 4 10. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt Hence 't is called Gods Arrow Psal 91. 5. and when God shoots these arrows into Kingdoms Cities Towns Families none can Psal 38. 2. pull them out but God himself The Plague is more immediately from God than any other Sicknesse or Disease is for it is the immediate stroke of God The Scribe is more properly said to write than the pen and he that maketh and keepeth the Clock is more properly said to make it go and strike than the wheels and poizes that hang upon it and every Workman to effect his work rather than the tools which he useth as instruments So the Lord of Hosts who is the chief Agent and Mover in all things and in all actions may more fitly and properly be said to effect and bring to pass all Judgements yea all things which are done in the Earth than any inferiour or subordinate causes seeing they are but his tools and instruments which he rules and guides according to his own Will Power and Providence I know some Physitians ascribe it to the heat of the Air and sometimes to the driness of the Air and sometimes to the corruption of the Air sometimes to the corruption of mens blood sometimes to Satan and sometimes to the malignancy of the Planets but certainly those are Physitians of no value that cannot look above second causes to the First Cause that cannot look to the wheel within the wheel The Ezek. 1. Plague is a hidden thing a secret thing it is a sickness a disease that more immediately comes from God than any other sickness or disease doth Behold the hand Exod. 9. 3. of the Lord is upon thy cattel which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheep there shall be a very grievous murrain The word here translated murrain is in chap. 5. v. 3. termed pestilence and it is one and the same disease though when it is applied to cattel it be usually rendred by murrain yet when 't is applied to men as in the Scripture last cited it is commonly called the pestilence Behold the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattel c. That is the extraordinary immediate power and work of God without the intervening of any second cause or humane operation This open plague this plague without doors that principally fell upon the cattel was from the immediate hand of God 'T is God alone that singles out the Nation the City the Town the Parish the Family the Person that he will strike with the plague for all second causes are ordered by the first cause as every instrument is ruled or over-ruled by the will and hand of him that holdeth it When a man goes with his Axe to cut down Trees in the Wood there is an equal aptness in the Axe to cut down one Tree as well as another an Oake as well as an Ash c. but it is still ruled by the will of him that handles it So 't is here the noisome pestilence or the pestilence of griefs as the Hebrew runs in that Psal 91. 3. hath an equal aptness to cut down one man as well as another the rich as well as the poor the honourable as well as the base the strong as well as the weak the Prince as well as the peasant the Emperour as well as the Carter but it is still over-rul'd by the Lord himself who gives it a Commission to cut off such and such in this Kingdom and that in this City and that in this Town and that in this Family and that to spare save and passe by all the rest In Rev. 6. you shall read of four horses when the four seals were opened 1. A white horse 2. A red horse 3. A black horse 4. A pale horse After Christ had ridden upon the white horse propagating the Gospel then follows the red horse a Type of War then the black horse an hieroglyphick of Famine and then the pale horse the emblem of Pestilence Now all these horses these plagues were of Christs sending From those words Judges 3. 20. I have a message from God unto thee O King said Ehud Lo his ponyard was Gods message from whence one well observeth That not only Isa 26. 8 9 10. the vocal admonitions but the real judgements of God are his errands and instructions to the world 'T was a mad principle among the Manichees who referred all the judgments calamities and miseries that came upon them to the Devil for their Author as if there could be any evil in the Amos 3. 6. City and the Lord have no hand in it Now in that 't is the Lord alone that sends the pestilence amongst a people how should this comfort