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The second was the choice that he made, ¹absolutely passing over the famine, without so much as speaking of it, as knowing it to be incomparably the sharpest scourge of the three: (for the Scripture faith, that they that are slain by the sword, are better then they which are killed with hunger) and rather also submitting himself to the Pestilence, ²which was more immediately the sword of God, from whom he expected mercy and favour, then to the violence and sword of man: in whom what else in such a case is to be found, but cruelty and fierceness?

The second was the choyse that he made, ¹absolutely passing ouer the famine, without so much as speaking of it, as knowing it to bee incomparablie the sharpest scourge of the three: (for the Scripture faith, that they that are slaine by the sword, are better then they which are killed with hunger) and rather also submitting himselfe to the Pestilence, ²which was more immediately the sword of God, from whom he expected mercie and fauour, then to the violence and sword of man: in whome what else in such a case is to be found, but crucltie and fiercenesse?

1. 1Verse 14.
2. 2Lament. 9.

The third was the execution of that plague of the pestilence, ¹which he had yielded himself unto: which is declared as well by the manner, as the minister of it: it being in so short a time, as in three days space, dispersed thorough the whole Land, from North to South, and (though not affirmed, yet implied) from East to West, Jerusalem only excepted, as may appear by the circumstance of the Text: and in this time seventy thousand being destroyed; which stroke was inflicted by the hand of an Angel, whom God had thereunto appointed, as minister and executioner of the same.