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I. ^*A Plague can quickly destroy a multitude. Here within less then a day 14700. are destroyed by a plague. There is mention made before this of a plague, which, though the precise number of them that died be not expressed, may be thought to have destroyed as many as this plague, for it is said that, ^aThe Lord smote the people with a very great plague. After these (but before they went out of the wilderness) at one time there ^bdied in a plague 24000. ^cIn Davids time there died within the space of three days almost three times 24000 of a plague, viz. 70000. ^dIn Hezekiahs time when Sennacherib came against Jerusalem, there died of a plague in one night, more then twice as many of the host of Sennacherib, as did of all Israel in the foresaid three days, viz. 185000. Other histories relate very great destructions caused by plagues.

I. ^*A Plague can quickly destroy a multitude. Here within lesse then a day 14700. are destroyed by a plague. There is mention made before this of a plague, which, though the precise number of them that died be not expressed, may be thought to have destroyed as many as this plague, for it is said that,