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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38021	The plague of the heart its [brace] nature and quality, original and causes, signs and symptoms, prevention and cure : with directions for our behaviour under the present judgement and plague of the Almighty / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing E209; ESTC R41111	40,611	53

for the worst thou needest not fear any thing Walk in Gods ways and they will be thy guard and security God will protect thee in doing his work Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the Land He shall give his Ang●ls charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways But then thy ways must be Gods ways or else that promise of being in the custody of Angels doth not concern thee Be about thy Masters business and he will look to thy maintenance And beside our general Calling as we are Christians there are particular Callings and Places in which we are set and must serve our Master in L●t every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called This was an Apostolical rule and command and it holds row as well as in St Pauls time for we serve God by being diligent in our secular affairs by faithfulness in our several vocations and prof●ssions The Magistrate is to keep his station and act in that higher sphear in which God hath set him this will yield him comfort when God shall please to call for him hence that he is found doing his Lords work The Minister hath his place and peculiar calling and it will be well for him to be found in the faithfull discharge of it as that good Bishop made answer when he was desired once to return home as he was going to Preach It best becomes a Bishop to dye Preaching And it was the like pious wish of St Augustine that when Christ should come he might be found either Praying or Preaching The Tradesman too and every one whom God hath set in any lawful employment for the use of men must be diligent in it and as it is a known Maxime amongst them Keep your shops and your shops will keep you so it is true in a higher sense if they be careful in their callings that carefulness will prove their guard and protection In a word every one in his own Orb wherein Divine Providence hath placed him must move shine and act with all his might This is Christianity and this will convey a blessing unto thee Moses put his hand into his bosom and when he took it out it was leprous as snow Let me apply it thus the sloathful man that as Solomon sets him forth hideth his hand in his bosom may justly fear that some contagious disease some Plague may light upon him This life is a warfare we are like to meet with many hardships and dangers many a brush and skirmish but as we are spiritual souldiers we must not dare to leave our station or quit the ground our great General hath set us in No no if we are shot in Gods service we can not suffer if we are taken off by the Arrows of the Almighty our end will be unspeakably comfortable if we are snatched away with the common calamity even then we are safe and secure The righteous p●risheth ●aith the Prophet he may seem in the eye of man to fare very ill but he adds The righteous is taken away from the evil to come he shall enter into peace Come my people ●nter thou into thy Chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be over-past The deluge is approaching and so the righteous are taken into the Ark they are locked up safe there and the floud shall not come nigh them The storm is coming and so the Bees hasten to their hive God plucks his out of the fire and it is no wonder if in that plucking they have a little wr●nch and pain such pain is the greatest courtesie for they are snatched from future dangers and secured from national calamities No evill shall befall them no Plague shall come nigh their dwelling no Plague that hath evil with it they shall be freed from whatsoever there is of judgment in the stroke There was a great deal of difference between the death of Sampson and the Philistin●s though they perished with the fall of the same house Gods children may dye of the Plague but that Plague is not sent as a curse but a bl●ssing for it improves their graces prepares them for heaven and inhanses their reward it carrys them from an evil and unkind world to the company of Saints and Angels from a Prison to a Palace from a wilderness to a Paradise from a valley of tears to a mount of joy Thus it shall go well with thee oh Christian whatsoever sort of death thou meetest with the Bell that tolls for thee is but to call thee to the Church triumphant thy friends that weep if they consider aright what they do grieve and lament that they cannot go along with thee and thou mayst be comforted by that revenge which is done upon death Oh death I will be thy Plagues oh grave I will be thy destruction But then remember on the other side how sad and miserable it is to dye in the commission of sin and are there not many persons that instead of being employed in Gods work are wholly taken up with the Devils and go out of the world in that employment Have you not heard of some that have swom out of the world in excessive drink they being in the worst sense of all dead drunk Was not Senacherib slain when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god Have not some wretches been seized on and apprehended by death in the very acts of uncleanness and loose de bauchery How sad must their condition be which thus leave this world and appear in another How scared and affrighted are their souls in their entrance into that other state This should make all persons especially now at this season to be careful over their ways that Gods judgments may not arrest them in the commission of sin and so their case be unspeakably forlorn this should make us all faithful in our general and particular callings that our Lord when he comes may find us doing his will and then in what maner soever he comes we shall be safe More particularly to reach thy case whosoever thou art that hast or shalt have the hand of God upon thy body and so art shut up and hindred from commerce with the world my Direction to thee is that thou converse more immediatly with God when thou art kept from the society of men Thou art Gods prisoner He hath shut thee up and though thou art never so closely confined he can let in his Holy Spirit to thee and let out thy ●erv●nt prayers to Him Christ Iesus will come and visit thee when thou art alone when lovers and friends s●and aloof off and thy nearest relations hide themselves This is an unspeakable happiness that thou hast a God to go to who is a rock and place of