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A29370 The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief exposition of the XCI. Psalm / by William Bridge. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1665 (1665) Wing B4460; ESTC R34367 31,468 50

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charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes Thus now men shall be preserved and delivered in the time of a Plague by the ministry of Angels And so you have the words opened Now to bring things home to our selves by way of application Here we may see what is our work our great work in this day The day we are fallen into is a dark day a day of the Plague and the Pestilence 't is good for us to inquire what our works is 't is good at all times but now especially to inquire what our work is Oh what is my work this day Now the work of this day our work is to trust in the Lord this is the work that protection and deliverance in the time of a Plague is entailed upon Who is there that does not desire to be protected and delivered from this Plague Oh that I and my family may be preserved behold here your Antidote to keep you from the Plague Trust in the Lord as ever you and your family may be protected now in this evil day Trust in the Lord and call upon yours to trust in the Lord But what shall we do that we may trust in the Lord in this day of the Plague First of all you must repent of your own sins and be sorrowful for the sins of others and of the times wherein you live When the Plague cam● in David's time you know what David did he repented Lord says he I have done foolishly as for these sheep what have they done 'T is I Lord 't is I. So let every one do this God expects in the time of a Plague In the 4th C●apter of Amos says the Lord there in the 10. verse I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt your young men have I slain with the sword and have taken away your horses and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord. When God sends the pestilence then he expects that men and women should return unto him repent and return unto him in the 9th of Ezekiel those that sigh and mourn for the abominations they are marked when men go into the City with their destroying weapons Those that sigh and mourn for the evil of the times they are the marked men They are not marked for deliverance that do abstain from sin a man may be given to drunkenness and may leave his drunkenness but that will not bring him under the mark Men are not brought under the mark for deliverance that do repent of their own sin but the mark is set upon those that do mourn for other mens sins but now I put both together If you trust in the Lord in this evil day in the time of a Plague repent for your own sins and mourn for the sins of others For how can I trust in the Lord for protection if I do not repent of my sins if I live in any sin and do not turn from all my evil ways how can I trust in the Lord I cannot do it therefore repent and be sorrowful for your own sins and for the sins of others Secondly Get assurance of your interest in Christ Christ is our great High Priest that makes the atonement as Aaron did in the time of a Plague it is by the ministry of Angels especially that we are kept in the time of a Plague Now says our Saviour Christ to Nathaniel because I saw thee under the fig-tree believest thou thou shalt see greater things than these And he saith unto him verily verily I say unto you hereafter ye shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man The Angels ascend and descend upon Christ all the ministry of Angels is upon Christs account and you are preserved and protected in the time of a plague by the ministration of Angels what then get an Interest in Christ and if you doubt of your interest get assurance do not let that slip now now get an interest in Christ now get assurance Thirdly Go to God to make good this promise in this 91. Psalm if you do but mind it the Lord doth not onely promise protection and deliverance from the Plague to those that trust in him but he promises grace to trust in him he promises protection upon condition that you trust in him and he promises you grace also to trust in him saith he at the 5th verse Art thou afraid and canst not trust in me Thou shalt not be afraid for the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day at the 4th verse He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust Thou shalt not be afraid c. thou shalt be secure and I will keep thee from fear The Lord that hath promised protection in the time of a Plague hath also promised freedom from fear and grace to trust in him therefore go to God for this grace go to him to make good this promise Then again fourthly consider what motives ye have to trust in God in the time of a plague you will say what arguments or motives have we in the consideration whereof we may be moved to trust in God in the time of a plague there are many give me leave a little that we may help one anothers faith in this needful day First of all though the destroyer be abroad yet there is a man with his pen and ink-horn by his side also abroad and that man is your friend 't is Christ as you read in the 9th of Ezekiel there goes a man out with a pen and ink-horn by his side to mark those that sigh and mourn and cry for the abominations that are done Now to this man Christ is a friend and therefore why should not you believe why should you not trust in the Lord But 2ly If that the Lord do know those that do trust in him in the time of a plague why should you not trust in him In the first Chapter of Nahum you find very great expressions of Gods anger and indignation 't is said at the 2. verse God is jealous and the Lord revengeth the Lord revengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies c. At the 5th verse The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him What then in the 7th verse The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him The Lord when he is angry doth distinguish betwixt those that trust in him and those that do not trust in him If a man be angry and in
of the Saints he took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham and in that respect the Saints are above them and the Saints are cloathed with the righteousness of Christ such a garment as never came upon the back of an Angel herein the Saints are above the Angels and the Saints and people of God they are members of Christ and therein above the Angels Christ is the Lord of Angels but you don't read that the Angels are the members of Christ So that I say in some respects the Angels are beneath the Saints and in some respects above them and so the more fit for this employment Ye see how 't is with a mean man that sits at dinner at a Noble man's table he sits down at the table with the Noble man and the servants of the Noble man they attend upon him it may be the servants are better men than he but because he sits down at the Noble mans table these servants attend upon him as upon their master Now the Saints and people of God are members of Christ they have communion with Christ and sit down at his table and therefore his followers the Angels they attend upon the Saints and people of God and thus now ye see why the Angels are in a special manner called to this work of protection of the Saints and people of God Well but then 3ly why are the Angels called to this work of protection of the Saints specially in the time of Plague and pestilence why doth the Lord give a special charge to his Angels to have a special care of his people in the time of the Plague and pestilence why at that time especially First of all that time is a time of the greatest danger when should the Nurse look unto the child if not in the greatest danger now in the time of the greatest danger then come the angels to the succour of Gods people In the 32. chapter of Genesis we read of the angels meeting of Jacob at the 1. vers Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him and when Jacob saw them he said this is Gods host they met him then why then he had a vision when he went out from his Country a promise in the way of a vision the angels ascending and descending and now he had the promise accomplished upon his return why then then he was in the greatest danger he was betwixt Laban and Esau and though he had passed the pikes of Laban yet now he was to meet an old provoked enemy a wicked man Esau insomuch that he was grievously afraid and he prayed Lord deliver me from the hand of my brother well and what then then comes the angels then comes this great danger and then come the angels and he called the name of the place Mahanaim 't is the same expression that is used in the 6. chapter of the Canticles concerning the Jews returning unto their own Country at the 13. verse Return return oh Shulamite return return that we may look upon thee what will ye see in the Shulamite in the Jews returning as it were the company of Mahanaims Mahanaims two armies you read it but 't is the same word why possibly to shew that God will send an host of angels to guard the Jews into their Country as he sent an host of angels to guard their father Jacob into his Country But I bring this to shew that when the Saints and people of God are in greatest danger then come the angels to succour them Now the time of sickness and of the plague is a time of great danger 2ly Look when all visible means and helps fail then is a fit time for invisible help to come in Now the help of the angel is invisible his hands are under his wings you cannot see his help when all visible means and helps fail then comes Gods invisible help then come the angels a fit time for the angels But 3ly Look when the destroying angel is abroad then is a fit time for the protecting angel to step in and be at work Now in the time of the Plague and pestilence the destroying angel is abroad only here then this question doth arise whether the destroying angel and the protecting angel differ whether they be divers or the same I shall resolve it in two or three Positions First although the same angel may destroy and spare as in David's time yet the destroying angel and the protecting angel seems to be divers in the 7th of Revel four angels came out to hurt and another came out to save in the 9th of Ezekiel six men came out with their slaughter-weapons in their hands and another came out to mark The second position is this as the destroying and protecting angel may seem to be divers so God doth sometimes employ an evil angel to afflict and destroy good men and doth sometimes employ a good angel to afflict bad men sometimes God doth employ a good angel to afflict and destroy wicked men as in the case of Sodom they were good angels that destroyed Sodom sometimes on the other side God doth employ evil angels to afflict and shall I use the word destroy good men the Devil wasted Job and killed his children But 3ly Though the angels may be thus employed the destroyer and the protectour yet this is certain that all protection of the Saints falls into the hands and the lap of the good angels for he shall give his angels charge over thee his why his in distinction from the devils and evil angels that did not stay by him but left him in the time of their apostacy and they shall bear thee in their armes Devils don't bear the Saints in their armes therefore the business of the Saints protection this falls wholly upon the good angels to do but look I say when the destroying angel is abroad then is a fit time for the protecting angel to be abroad too Now in the time of the Plague and pestilence the destroying angel is abroad therefore then especially is the good angel to be at work for the protection of the Saints 4ly The time of the Plague is a time when the Saints and people of God may want outward provision good people may be shut up and starved for want of victuals in the time of the Plague Now 't is the work of the good angels to provide meat and victuals for the people of God sometimes In the first of Kings 19. vers 5. 't is said of Elijah that as he lay and slept under a juniper tree an angel touched him and said unto him Arise and eat and he looked and behold there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head and he did eat and drank and laid him down again And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee c.