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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	bless_v	lord_n	psal_n	5,398	5	8.4230	4	false

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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

considering with Job that the dayes of man are determined and his bounds appointed which he cannot pass The time and place and every circumstance of his dissolution is decreed from all eternity That one man dies in the field another in his bed one at sea another on the shore one of an Apoplexy in the head another of a Struma in the neck one of a Squinacy in the throat another of a Cough and Consumption of the Lungs that so many thousands dies of Obstructions Inflamations Dropsies Gouts Pestilence it is fore-ordained in heaven The hand of the Lord is in all and he it is that having brought us into the world at his pleasure will take us hence at his appointment The Jewes have a saying That God hath four Keyes under his own Girdle 1. The Key of the Clouds 2. The Key of the Womb. 3. The Key of the Heart And 4. The Key of Death the Key of the Grave Fifthly God sometimes takes away his dearest children in the Common Calamity in judgement to wicked men Because the hand of the Lord hath touch'd some of his dearest servants in this sore Visitation how do the wicked insult rejoyce and triumph they say Ahah so would we have it As the Fire-flie leaps and dances in the fire so do wicked men rejoyce in the sufferings and death of the people of God How do many wicked men bless themselves because they have escaped the hand of the destroying Angel when such and such have fallen by it Oh how proud how obdurate Eccl. 8. 11. how impudent are many grown because they have escaped the present judgement when many others that have been a thousand times better than themselves have been sent to their graves The Alcorán saith God created the Angels of light and the Devils of the flame Certainly Gods children are of the light but Satans children are furious wrathful children they are children of the flame Oh in what a flame now The scales of the Leviathan as Luther makes the comparison stick close together and so do wicked men in their counsels plots and projects against the people of God are many wicked men against the people of God since the hand of the destroying Angel hath not yet reacht them over what they were in when the destroying Angel first drew his sword in the midst of us as if they were spared on purpose to oppress persecute and scatter the people of God more than ever Oh that all such would be but so favourable to their own souls as seriously to ponder upon Ezekiel chap. 25. and 35. and Obediah vers 8. to vers 19. and Nahum 1. from vers 9. to v. 15. Felix Earl of Wertenbergh one of the Captains of Charles the Fifth burning in rage and anger against the people of God he swore in the presence of divers at supper That before he died he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans but God soon cool'd his courage for that very night he was choakt and strangled in his own blood Paul prayeth that he might be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 absurd men 2 Thess 3. 2. such as put themselves upon wayes of opposition against all reason and common sense yea such who in their rage and bitterness of spirit make no bones of breaking all the Laws both of God and men so they may but have their wills and lusts satisfied in afflicting scattering and tormenting of the people of God Absurd men with Judas kiss Christ and betray him they kisse the head and stab the body or as one wittily expresseth it they kisse the mouth and tread upon the toes Reader remember this when the people of the Jewes made use of Philo to apologize for them unto Caius the Emperour Caius used him very ruggedly but when he was come out of his presence the Jewes came round about him Well saith he to encourage them surely Caius will arm God against himself for us Let the Reader apply it as he pleaseth Sixthly God sometimes takes away some of his dearest children in the Common Calamity that he may deliver them from greater Calamities that are coming upon the world The Jewes have a saying When good men die that it is an ill sign to the world When the Luminaries of heaven are eclipsed Deus avertat omen Paulinus reports of Ambrose that he would weep bitterly when he heard of any godly ministers death Whilest Calvin lives Beza's life is sweet but when Calvin dies death is the more acceptable unto Beza 'T is dark night when the lights are put out and when the curtains are drawn and the windows close shut Ah England England if this is not thy present case I know nothing The Clouds gather more and more and every day they look blacker and blacker and bloodier and bloodier happy are those souls that are now in heaven and blessed are those souls that are now waiting for the redemption of Israel Seventhly Notwithstanding any outward promises that the Lord hath made concerning the protection and preservation of his children yet he still reserves a liberty to himself to chastise his Psal 89. 30 31 32 33 34. Heb. 12. 6 7 8 9. Rev. 3. 19. children with what rod he pleaseth Notwithstanding all the gracious engagements that are upon the Lord to his people yet he reserves a freedome to himself to make use of the very lives of his people in such wayes as may make best for the bringing about of his own ends and as may make most for the advance of his own glory and hence it comes to pass that God delights so to carry it towards his dearest people as that sinners and saints shall be forced to say That his judgements are unsearchable and that his wayes are past finding out Rom. 11. 33. And that his way is in the sea and that his paths are in the great waters and that his footsteps are not known Psal 77. 19. If you take a strait stick and put it into the water it will seem crooked why because we look upon it thorow two mediums Air and Water there lies the deceptio visus thence it is that we cannot discern aright Thus all the proceedings of God in his righteous judgements which in themselves are just righteous and strait without the least obliquity seem to us strange and crooked That the wicked should prosper and the righteous be afflicted that good men should be in bonds when bad men walk at large that the Israelites should make the bricks and the Egyptians dwell in the houses that some of the best of Christians should fall by the pestilence when many of the worst of sinners have their lives for a prey these are some of those mysterious providences that many times make some of the best of Christians to stagger in their judgements and why so but because they look upon Gods proceedings through a double medium of flesh and spirit and hence it