By Thomas Brooks.
A Heavenly Cordial.
By Thomas Brooks.
About this book:
Thirteen divine maxims or conclusions, in respect of the great plague of London—which may be as so many supports, comforts, and refreshing springs—both to the visited and preserved people of God in this present day.
For all those servants of the Lord that have had the plague (and are recovered) or who now have it; also for those who have escaped it, though their relations and friends have been either visited, or swept away by it.
The Thirteen divine maxims or conclusions:
1. When the pestilence is among a people—it is the Lord alone who sends it.
2. The pestilence and all other judgments of God are limited as to PLACES.
3. All the judgments of God are limited, not only to places—but also to PEOPLE.
4. No man knows divine love or hatred, by outward dispensations.
5. The Lord sometimes takes away his dearest people by some one judgment, so that he may by that means deliver them from many judgments
6. None of God’s judgments upon his people ever make any change or alteration of God’s affections towards his people.
7. Many times when the poor people of God cannot carry it with God for the preservation of a whole land or nation—yet they shall then be sure to have the honor and the happiness to be so potent and so prevalent with God, as to prevail with him for their own personal preservation and protection.
8. Sword, famine, and pestilence can only reach our outward man—they only reach our bodies and our temporal concerns; they cannot reach our souls, nor our spiritual nor our eternal concerns.
9. There are no people upon the earth that in times of common calamity stand upon such fair grounds for their preservation and protection, as the people of God do.
10. That such saints as do fall by the sword or by the pestilence, they receive no loss, no wrong, no injury, by these sad dispensations.
11. Though a godly man should die of the plague—yet he shall be certainly delivered from the evil of the plague.
12. That God knows how to distinguish his people, and how to difference his people from others, when the pestilence rages in the midst of them.
13. That though the godly are not delivered from the plague—yet they are still delivered by the plague; by it they shall be delivered from all their sins.