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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

peculiar people and delights in them as the chosen and choycest of all others The whole world lyes in wickedness John 1. 5. 19. By this also 't is evident that the people of God stand upon the advantage ground for their preservation and protection above all others in the world Fifthly If you consider the common carriage and deportment of God towards his people in former times of calamities and great Judgments Did he not provide an Ark for righteous Noah so that Noah was safer in his Ark of three Stories high than Nimrod and his crew were in their Tower of Babel raised to the height of five thousand Heyl. Cosm l. 3. one hundred fourty six paces as is reported And did he not provide a Zoar for righteous Lot Hesiod speaks of thirty thousand Demy-gods that were keepers of men But what are so many thousand gods to that one God that neither Psal 121. 3 4 5. Isa 27. 3. slumbers nor sleeps but day and night keeps his people as his Jewels as the apple of his eye that keepeth them in his pavilion as a Psal 31. 20. Prince keeps his Favourite Princes have their retiring rooms and withdrawing Chambers which are sacred places and so hath God his and there he shelters the Favourites of Heaven Gods gracious Providence is his golden Cabinet where his children are as safe as if they were in Heaven See Isa 49. 2. Isa 26. 20 21. Jer. 36. 26. Psal 83. 3. They have consulted against thy hidden ones hidden under the hollow of thy hand and under the shadow of thy wing and therefore safe from dangers in the midst of dangers Jer. 39. 16 17 18. How wonderfully did he preserve the three children or rather the three Non-conformable Champions from burning in the midst of the flames Dan. 3. and Daniel from being devoured in the Lyons Den Dan. 6. And so Gods mourning ones were his marked ones and his saved and preserved ones when the destroying Angel slew old and young c. Ezek. 9. 4 6. And reverend Beza and his Family was four several times visited with the Plague and yet as often preserved as they were visited and this good man was very much refreshed and comforted under that and other sore afflictions that befell him by that Psal 91. which made him the more highly to prize it and the more dearly to hugg it all his dayes as himself witnesseth in his Writings on this Psalm There is a Dialogue between an Heathen and a Jew after the Jewes return from captivity all Nations round about them being enemies to them The Heathen asked the Jew How he and his Countreymen could hope for any safety because saith he every one of you is a silly sheep compassed about with fifty wolves I but saith the Jew we are kept by such a Shepheard as can kill all those wolves when he pleaseth Now by all this also 't is evident that the people of God stand upon the advantage ground as to their preservation and protection above all other people in the world Sixthly If you consider the life-guard of the Saints the ministry Gen. 32. 1 2 Dan. 6. 21 22. Acts 12. 11 15. Acts 27. 23 2 Kings 6. 14 15 16 17. Acts 5. 18. of the blessed Angels that alwayes attends them Psal 91. 11. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes vers 12. They shall bear thee up in their hands least thou dash thy foot against a stone Psal 37. 7. The Angels of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them Matth. 18. 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven Heb. 1. The Heathens had some blind notions concerning the Angels and their ministry as may be seen in the writings of Plato Plutarch Hesiod the Greek Poet could say that there were thirty thousands of them here on Earth keepers of mortal men and observers of their works 14. Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation The world may deprive us of many outward comforts but they can never deprive us of the ministry of the Angels When the servants of God are hated by men persecuted by men and forsaken of men yet they are then visited and attended by Angels Princes have their guards but what poor what weak what contemptible guards are theirs to those legions of Angels that daily guard the Saints When men can clip the wings of Angels and imprison or pinion these heavenly souldiers then and not till then shall they be able to have their wills upon the poor people of God Oh the honour the dignity the safety and security of the Saints in a life guard so full of state and strength Well may we say Come taste and see how gracious the Lord is in affording his children so glorious an attendance Now by this argument as well as the rest 't is evident that the people of God stand upon the advantage ground as to their outward preservation and protection above all other people in the world Seventhly If you consider that they are the onely people that do Deut. 4. 6 7 8 9. Joh. 4. 23 24. bear up the name and glory of God in the world they are the onely people that worship God in spirit and in truth and from such worshippers 't is that God hath the incomes of his glory The holy hearts the holy lives the holy examples the holy wayes the holy walkings and the holy worship that is performed by the Saints are the springs from whence all divine honour rises to the Lord in this world The people of God are Deut. 26. 17. 18. Psal 116. 16. Psal 22. 30 the onely people in the world that have chosen him for their God and that have given themselves up to his service and thus they honour his goodness The people of God are the onely people in the Gen. 24 12 Psal 48. 14. world who in the times of their fears doubts darknesses distresses straits trials dangers c. do consult with God as their great Counsellour as their onely Counsellour and thus they honour his admirable wisdom and infinite knowledge The people of God are the onely people in the world that do make God their refuge their strong tower their Psal 46. 1 7 11. Prov. 18. 10. Psal 32. 7. Psal 119. 114. Psal 20. 7. shelter their hiding place in stormy and tempestuous dayes and thus they honour the Power All-sufficiency Soveraignty and Authority of God Wicked men trust in their Chariots and Horses and Armies and Navies and Revenues and Carnal Policies and sinful shifts devices and ferches when the poor people of God do not dare to trust in their swords nor in their bows nor in their wealth nor in their wit nor in their friends nor

in any arm of flesh or carnal refuges but in the Lord alone for in the Lord Jehovah Isa 26. 3 4. is everlasting strength The people of God are the onely people in the world that do give God the supremacy in their hearts that do set up God and Christ Psal 73. 25 26. Phil. 3. 6 7 8 9. Rev. 4. 10 11. above themselves and above all their duties services priviledges graces comforts communions spiritual enjoyments and worldly contentments and thus they honour all the excellencies and perfections of God at once And do you think that God will not have a special care of such that are the onely promoters of his honour and glory in this world Doubtless he will Now by this argument 't is further evident that the people of God do stand upon the advantage ground as to their outward preservation and protection above all other people in the world Eighthly If you do but seriously consider what a mighty interest the people of God have in the Grand Favourite of Heaven viz. The Lord John 1. 18. Heb. 7. 25. 1 John 2. 1 2. Jesus who lies in the bosome of the Father and who is so near and dear unto him and so potent and prevalent with him that he can do what he pleaseth with the Father and have what he will of the Father Now look what interest the wife hath in the husband the child in the father the members in the head the subject in his Prince the servant in his Lord the branches in the root the building in the foundation that the believer hath in Christ and much more Christ is not like the Bramble that receives good but yields none but he is like the Fig-tree the Vine the Olive All that are interested in him that pertain to him are the better for him they all receive of his fulness John 1. 16. Col. 1. 19. grace for grace Now doubtless all that interest that Jesus Christ hath in God the Father he will improve to the utmost for their good that have an interest in him Now by this argument 't is also evident that the people of God do stand upon the advantage ground above all others in the world as to their outward preservation and protection Ninthly If you consider Gods tender and fatherly care of his people and his singular indulgence towards them of which you may read much in the blessed Scripture Among the many choice Scriptures which might be produced take these as a taste Psal 103. 13 14. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him for he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust There is an ocean of love and pity in the fathers heart towards his children but 't is but a drop to that which is in God He hit the mark that said Tam pius nemo tam pater nemo No father Bernard is like our father God is Pater miserationum he is all bowels Let God carry it how he pleaseth towards us yet we must still acknowledge that he is a propitious father and say with him Lord thou Austin art a father both when thou stroakest and when thou strikest thou strikest that we may not perish and thou stroakest that we may not faint Pity is as essential to God as light is to the Sun or as heat is to the fire Hence he is called the Father by an eminency James 1. ult as if they were no father to him none like him nor none besides him as indeed there is not originally and properly So Exod. 19. 4. Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you on Eagles wings and brought you unto my self 'T is an elegant expression to set forth Gods admirable care over his people The Eagle fears no bird from above to hurt her young onely the arrow from beneath therefore she carries them upon her wings Deut. 32. 9 10 11. The Lords portion is his people Jacob is the lot of his inheritance he found him in a desart land and in the wast-howling wilderness he led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye As an Eagle stirreth up her nest fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings vers 12. So the Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange God with him The Eagle carries her young ones upon her wings not in her tallons for fear of hurting them openly safely choicely charily speedily and so did God his Israel of whom he was exceeding choice and chary The care that God exercises towards his people is 1. An Extensive Care a care that reaches that extends it self to all the Saints whether rich or poor high or low bond or free c. 2 Chron. 16. 9. Zech. 1. 10 11. 2. 'T is an Intentive Care He cares for all as if he had but one to care for Zech. 1. 14. 3. 'T is a Pleasant and Delightful Care Isa 31. 5. and not a wearying tearing tormenting care 't is such a pleasant care as an indulgent father exercises towards a son Mal. 3. 17. an onely son a son that serves him 4. 'T is an Effectual Care a Prosperous Care a Successful Care a Flourishing Care Men many times rise early and go to bed late and take a great deal of care at home and abroad and all to no purpose but the care of God is alwayes successful Deut. 11. 12. 5. 'T is a Singular Care a Peculiar Care God cares more for them than he doth for all the world besides The Fathers care over the Child is a peculiar care and the Husbands care over the Wife is a peculiar care and the Heads care over the Members is a peculiar care and so is the Lords Zeph. 3. 6 17 18 19 20. Psal 36. 6. Isa 40. 31. care over his people a peculiar care Gods general care extends to the whole Creation but his special care centers in his Saints 6. 'T is a very Tender Care Isa 40. 11. He shall feed his flock like a shepheard he shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry them in his bosome and shall gently lead those that are with young Zech. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his Ishon of ish is here called Bath the daughter of the eye because it is as dear to a man as an only daughter eye or the little man that is in the eye or the black of the eye which is the tenderest piece of the tenderest part to express the inexpressible tenderness of Gods care and love towards his people 7. 'T is an Abiding Care a Lasting Care and not a transient care a momentary care Psal 125. 1 2. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever