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A00667	A perfume against the noysome pestilence prescribed by Moses vnto Aaron. Num. 16. 46. Written by Roger Fenton, preacher of Grayes Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 10800; ESTC S105577	18,874	94

which being kindled and sent forth doth fire the rest and set them all a working He is purblind as the Apostle speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 1. 9 and cannot see a farre off who looketh onely vpon inferiour causes for if the cause of this infection were elementary why must holy fire be taken from the Altar fire out of the chimney would purifie that perfume the ayre as well as any it must be celestiall fire which argueth that the principall cause is supernall The wrath of God once kindled is terrible when Dauid did but thinke of it it put him into a passion like men who astonished halfe frighted vse to blesse themselues Psal 2. 12. If his wrath be kindled Psal 2. 12 yea but a little blessed are all they that trust in him T is like Gun powder which bloweth vp whole familes before they liue out halfe their dayes But much more terrible is it when wrath thus kindled is gone out from the Lord as in this place where the plague is begun for long it is before it goe forth therefore when it is once out a harder matter to driue it backe againe It hath a time to kindle and a long time for God is slowe to anger After it is kindled in the breast it hath a time to breake forth in words and threats for Hee speaketh vnto vs in his anger before he vex vs in his sore displeasure Psal 2. 5 After many threatnings and warnings he hath a time to prepare himselfe to battell to whet his sword and bend his bow and make his arrowes ready Deut. 32. 23. 34. which are rustie and blunt and all out of order A time to open his storehouse and vnseale his treasuries where all his plagues instruments of death be horded vp hardly drawne from him he is more liberall of his blessing they come from him with lesse adoe for he neither sealeth them in his treasure nor locketh them in his chest nor keepeth them in his bosome but carieth them in his hands It is the opening of his hands and all things liuing are Psal 145. 16. filled with plenteousnesse Doubtlesse then it is no small matter that hath kindled the wrath of God against vs no cordes of vanitie but some Cart-ropes of iniquitie which pull downe this iudgement from him Which thing appeareth as well by the nature of the remedie here prescribed as by the qualitie of the iudgement inflicted Here is Incense to perfume and sweeten therefore somewhat there is which stincketh in the nosthrils of the Almightie in that Aaron must dissolue such sweete Odoures for the atonement Secondly the noisomnesse of the Pestilence noteth the cause thereof to bee some loathsome abhominations which causeth God to turne the light of his countenance from vs as we turne our faces from persons and places infected 1. Whether it be therfore our prophanenesse and neglect of Gods seruice which Moses thought sufficient to cause God to meete vs with the pestilence Exod. 5. 3. 2. Or whether it be our hipocriticall worship of God dissembling with him in our hearts as the Isralites did for which they should dye of the Pestilence Iero. 42. ●0 vlt. 1. 3. Or whether it be our light accoumpt of the sacrament and the vnworthy receiuing thereof which caused such a mortalitie amongst the Corinthians 1. Cor. 11. 30. 4. Or whether our ouermuch confidence in secondary causes in that God of his mercie hath laid the corner stone and vnited kingdomes together make vs to number the people as Dauid did and secure our selues in the strength thereof which causeth God by this kinde of iudgement to substract as fast as we multiplie from Dan to Bersheba 5. Or whether our stubbernesse in not making vse of former visitations hath brought greater vpon vs as vpon the Israelites in Amos. 4. for God hath proceeded in the same order with vs as with them First sending vs famine as ver 6. after that drought wherof we haue long complained as vers 7. thirdly want of fruite this last yeare as vers 9. and now the Pestilence verse 10. and if for all this we will not turne vnto him there remaineth worse behinde warre and the ouerthrowe of Sodom verse 11. 6. Or whether the toleration of such vncleane and notorious harlots as keepe about this place haue infected the Citie for the Plague ceaseth not in Israel till Phineas had done iudgement vpon those adulterous persons Num. 25. 8. Vnto which you may adde those wanton attyres and vnseemelie fashions wherein our women disguise themselues whose ornaments do beautifie their Aegyptian Temples not Temples of the holy Ghost but where some Crocodile or poysenfull serpent doth inhabite whose gallant bushes of such curious and costlie haire doe hang out to testifie that their Wine is of the Vine of Sodome and Grapes of Gomorah commonly solde at the signe of the Painted face and naked brest These creatures when they thinke themselues most sweete and fine then be they most loathsome and vgly in the sight of God and honest men 7. Or whether some treacherous conspiracie plotted and intended by some murmuring male-contents for insurrection against Moses and Aaron to the great perill or ouerthrow of Church or common-wealth as it was in this place verse 41. 8. Or whether the blasphemies of affected Atheists hath poysoned our ayre for while they be suffered to breath in a Christian common-wealth they must needs infect vs since in the iudgement of a Heathen Prince to blaspheme the true God was accompted most filthie abhomination insomuch as he decreed their houses to bee made a Iakes who spake anye plasphemie against the God of Shadracke Meshake and Abedmago Dan. 3. 29. Whether these or all these togither certes some loathsome and abhominable sinnes they be which haue brought so noysome a iudgement amongst vs which must be perfumed by the incense of sweet odours 3. And what is Aaron that he should make an atonement for so great matters a sinfull man like one of vs. He was but a shadow the true Priest is the sonne of God our blessed Sauiour by whose onely vertue the atonement made euen by Aaron himselfe was made acceptable vnto God 1. First this Priest of the High God in the fulnesse of time tooke the Censer when he assumed our humane nature into the personall vnion of his deitie when he hallowed and sanctified that earthen vessell to offer Incense therein vnto his Father 2. He put fire in this Censer not sparingly but in such quantitie as he had like to haue burnt vp Censer and all Iohn 2. 17. The zeale of thine house Ioh. 2. 17. hath consumed me That feruent affection also which he carryed to mankinde was fire enough to dissolue Odours for a thousand worldes It hath beene obserued that as the Sonne of God when hee became man made choise of the worthier sex that such a sacrifice might be without the least note of imperfection so one the

A Perfume against the noysome Pestilence prescribed by Moses vnto Aaron Num. 16. 46. Written by Roger Fenton Preacher of Grayes Inne ¶ Imprinted at London by R. R. for William Aspley 1603. To the Christian Reader THese times of Gods visitation doe begge that at my hands which otherwise in this writing age might very well haue bin spared the publishing of some few Meditations concerning the times for the instruction and comfort of such as shall now stand in need of the same And albeit it seemeth to me a matter of great difficultie to prescribe formes of priuate prayer for others since I haue not the scantling of any ones affection but mine owne yet because this Treatise promiseth somewhat in that kinde I haue annexed three supplications which if they may fit thy deuotion gentle reader I shall be right glad If not I wish thee that which may togither with all spirituall comfort in life and death to the glorie of God in Christ Iesus our Lord R. F. August 9. 1603. A Perfume against the noisome Pestilence prescribed by Moses vnto Aaron Num. 16. 46. Take the Censer and put fire therein of the Altar put Incense thereon and go quickly to the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is vvrath gone out from the Lord. The plague is begun THis plague as it is a generall iudgment zeasing vpon all sorts and sparing none so it is inflicted for a generall sin as appeareth by the remedie in that the atonement is made for the whole congregation And who must make the atonement but Aaron himselfe the party offended aduised by Moses against whom also all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured and made insurrection verse 41. 42. This atonement is prescribed by Moses and put in execution by Aaron after this maner 1 He taketh the Censer a hallowed vessell for that purpose kept in the holiest place of the Tabernacle Heb. 9. 4. 2. He put fire therein to dissolue the odours not common fire but taken from the Altar where it burned continually to signifie how ready God is to answer vs by fire and to accept our deuotions if we be not slack in bringing of them 3. He putteth Incense thereon Incense compounded of sweet Spices to wit Myrrhe cleare Gumme Galbandum Exod. 30. 34. and pure Frankincense composed after the Arte of the Apothecarie brused and beaten to powder to make a more fragrant smell This is the atonement which must bee made with expedition because wrath is gone out from the Lord therefore there is no delaying and to proue that wrath is gone out he vseth a sensible demonstration in that the plague is begun Of which context that we may so dispose as may be most easie for our vnderstanding we propound in the first place the iudgement it selfe which now beginneth to bee made sensible vnto vs Secondly we enquire of the cause thereof and how it begunne in that wrath is gone out from the Lord. In the third place we adde the remedie the atonement made according to the prescript of Moses Take the Censer c. 1. The word which commonly is vsed in Scripture for the pestilence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leuit. 16. 25. Num. 14. 12. Deut. 28. 21. 2. Sam. 24 13. is deriued from a verbe that signifieth to speake as some thinke because where it is euery one speaketh of it enquireth after it how it encreaseth what remedies there be for it what preseruatiues against it what be the symptomes qualities of it wherfore since it is a thing so well knowne as euery one is able to discourse of it I shall need to speake the lesse Onely thus much in a word since we haue so long hardened our harts against the voice of God speaking vnto vs it seemeth now that hee will indeede speake with vs in a iudgement so quick that vnlesse some speedie atonement be made with all expedition hee is but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worde and a blow that since we would not heare him we shall now feele him for the word which Moses here vseth properly translated Plague signifieth Smiting and such a smiting as is fearefull and terrible for impenitent sinners to thinke vpon Fearfull because it brings death with it and without repentance a second death Fearefull in regarde of the terrours which accompany the same for which cause Dauid calleth it The Pestilence Psal 91. 5 that walketh in the darkenesse taking vs vnawares when we cannot see to auoide it causing such wofull lamentations of distressed soules that perish for want of succour such dolefull griping and towling of Bels as would make a sluggard watchfull or a sound man sicke to heare Fearfull for the noysomnesse of it which depriueth men of the comforte of that friendly and neighbour-like visitation which otherwise they might enioy Fearefull because it strikes suddenly which made Aaron make such hast disappointing vs thereby of many blessings which a deliberate death would endowe vs withall for the perfitting of our repentance for the better triall and exercise of our faith and patience for the blessing of our posteritie and the more effectuall enforming of others by the last words which make the deepest impression for the libertie of our minds in setting our houses in order making choise of the fittest soile where the last seed of charitie might be sowne Fearefull in regarde of the vniuersality of it spareing Luk. 16. 9 neither place nor person for as it is a sword pointing to 1. Sam. 24 ver 19. Psal 91. vers 5. the citie cutting neere hand so is it an arrow flying into the country and smiting a farre of And if any be so sencelesse as not to be mooued with this fearefull iudgement let them remember that Christ reckoneth this but amongst the beginnings of sorrow Math. 24. 8. Mat. 24. 8 signifying that God hath yet moe arrowes in his quiuer and greater vengeance in store to make an end of such wretches as make no vse of these beginnings 2. That the Plague is begun is a thing well knowne but how it begun is the question 1. Some take it to be a discommoditie brought ouer in our Marchants commodities from forreine countries 2. Others suppose it to be a consequent of drought and of that want of moisture which wee haue complained of so long 3. Some imagine it to be a matter of course whereas the elements gather infection continually more or lesse once in certaine yeares gathering to a head it must needes breake forth 4. Some take it to be an vnhappie coniunction of certaine Planets inflaming the ayre vnnaturally 5. Others conceaue that a huge concourse of people in some extremitie of heat and drought hath inflamed and corrupted the bloud and so it begun But the iudgement of Moses reacheth further in that he maketh it an effect of Gods wrath for whatsoeuer secondarie causes doe concurre herevnto certaine it is that the wrath of God is the principall