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truth_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,508	5	12.7528	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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