A01974:481
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the…Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the…
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friars, London.Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 69. Of the meaning of the 49 Verse.
NUMB. 16. 49.Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand, and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
NVMB. 16. 49.Now they that died in the plague were foureteene thousand, and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
The severity of Gods stroke by the fore-mentioned plague is here set down: and that by the express number of them that were destroyed by that pestilence. The particle translated IN, (* in the plague) among other significations oft setteth out the instrumental cause, whereby a thing is effected: as where the Lord saith to the Jews that were in Egypt, I will punish them aBY the sword, BY ⟨p. 114⟩the famine, and BY the pestilence. Others therefore thus translate this text, Of the plague, that is, by it. The plague was the instrumental cause of their death. Circumstances show that this plague from the first beginning to the end of it continued not a whole day. For so soon as the people gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, the Lord threatened to consume them. Then instantly Moses and Aaron fell on their faces: and Moses then discerned that the plague was begun: which so soon as he espied, he bad Aaron quickly offer up incense. Aaron accordingly ran for incense, brought it, offered it up: and the plague was stayed. These circumstances duly weighed, who can imagine that there was more then a day from the beginning to the end of this plague: so as in the space of a few hours, fourteen thousand and seven hundred died together of a plague. O terrible stroke!