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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32819	A serious examination of the independent's catechism and therein of the chief principles of non-conformity to, and separation from the Church of England / by Benjamin Camfield ... ; in two parts, the first general, the second more particular.	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1668 (1668)	Wing C383; ESTC R6358	213,588	410

before upon examination found it a breach of God's positive command vvho had limited them to the fire on the Altar and the keeping of it there for holy uses Some of the Hebrews charge them farther Munster in loc with gross misdemeanour in giving themselves to drink c. Upon which occasion they judge that Precept to have followed ver 8.9 The Lord spake unto Aaron saying Do not drink wine nor strong drink thou nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the Tabernacle of the congregation lest ye die Secondly Of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16.3 8 9 32 35. Their sin was this Having seditiously engaged a considerable party of the Princes of the Assembly famous in the congregation Num. 16.2 3. men of renown the chief Senators of note Deut. 33. 4 5. Moses King in Jesurun They gather'd themselves together against Moses and against Aaron suppose their King and High-priest and said unto them Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift you up your selves above the congregation of the Lord i. e. Why do you usurp and tyrannize over God's people their just rights liberty and priviledges who are as good and holy as your selves and as gifted for publick ministry as your selves Hear we now Moses his reply and that will give us farther to understand their miscarriage vers 8 9 10 11. And Moses said unto Korah Hear I pray you ye sons of Levi Seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the Congregation of Israel to bring you near unto himself to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto them And he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the Priesthood also for which cause both thou and all thy company are gather'd together against the Lord and what is Aaron that ye murmur against him that is I have setled this order among you by God's authority and he hath called Aaron to the Priesthood which you Levites instead of being thankful for and contented with your lot of Ministry affect and therefore this insurrection of yours to that end is by way of evident interpretation against the Lord. This especially for Korah Dathan and Abiram besides their share in this guilt are found moreover positive Contemners of Moses his command and Revilers of his conduct and government occasioning all their sufferings as if he had aimed at nothing but the establishment of an absolute dominion to himself ver 12 13 14 in their slavery And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab which said We will not come up Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a Land that floweth with milk and hony to kill us in the Wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Moreover thou hast not brought us into a Land that floweth with milk and hony or given us inheritance of fields and Vineyards Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men We will not come up This is the true description of the sin of these men And we learn by the way That the sacred Ministry then even in the lowest order of it was a state separated from the people were their holiness or gifts otherwise never so considerable and That there were different degrees of Ministry then appointed by God whose will it was that every one among them should keep his place and not the Levite to invade the Priesthood also yea and none of them nor the whole Congregation of people with them upon any pretence to make a mutiny and insurrection against Moses and Aaron the chief Governours Civil and Ecclesiastical by God and under God set over them This murmuring usurpation and rebellion was the sin of Korah Dathan and Abiram Their punishment now follows Ver. 31 32 33. The ground clave asunder that was under them and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the Congregation And there came out a fire from the Lord Vet. 35. Ver. 41. and consumed the 250 men that offered incense viz. those presumptuous invaders of the Priesthood And yet notwithstanding these miraculous judgments from heaven upon these factious and seditious rebels the people were so leavened with their infecting principles that the very next day they generally murmur against Moses and Aaron saying Ver. 41. Ye have kill'd the people of the Lord. namely these good men Korah Dathan and Abiram and the renowned Senators that stood up with them for our priviledges And upon this came the Plague V. 49. whereof dyed fourteen thousand and seven hundred more of them And now let the Brethren make their best advantage of this story only it may not be amiss to immind them farther St Jude ver 11. that there is such a thing also mentioned in the New Testament as Perishing in the gain-saying of Kore Thirdly Of the sons of Ely A sin not to be expiated vvith sacrifices and burnt-offerings for ever 1 Sam. 2.28 29. Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation and honourest thy sons above me to make your selves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people But if we look a little backward we shall be farther satisfied what was the monstrous provocation of these sons of Eli. Ver. 22 24. They lay with the vvomen that assembled at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation and made the Lord's people to transgress Now who of any modesty would presume to compare and equallize the admission of certain humane praescriptions for the ordering of God's external worship with such a villany as this Fourthly of Vzza in putting the Ark into a Cart when he should have born it upon his Shoulders 1 Chron. 16.13 He means I suppose chap. 13.7 9 10. where we have the account of Vzza's miscarriage and judgment There vve read indeed of the Ark of God carried in a new cart out of the house of Aminadab and Vzza and Ahio driving the cart But that vvhich the Catechist fixeth on was none of Vzza's condemnation The vvords of the Text are express against him 1 Chron. 13.9 10. And vvhen they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon Vzza put forth his hand to hold the Ark for the oxen stumbled And the anger of the Lord vvas kindled against Vzza and he smote him because he put his hand to the Ark and there he dyed before God Here vve have a taste of that reverence vvhich persons of this way do bear to the Holy