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A52804	A compleat and compendious church-history shewing how it hath been from the beginning of the world to this present day : being an historical-narrative how the power and providence of God, according to his promise, hath hitherto confounded all the damnable plots of the Devil : to which is annexed a Scripture-prophecy fore-shewing how it shall be hence to the end of the world : to whole containing the quintessence of sacred, civil and ecclesiastick-writers, and serving as a short comment upon all the books in the Bible, both historical and prophetical / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing N446; ESTC R37720	248,071	530

and could not brook that Zipporah should take too much Honour upon her self because of her Honourable Husband and give too little to her As Satan prevailed first with Eve then by her with Adam So here first with Miriam then by her with Aaron so sets a Sister and a Brother against Moses he loves to Fish in Troubled Waters no Relation or Qualification either of Honour or Meekness can secure a Man from Offensive exceptions Their Murmuring against meek Moses causes the Cloud of Glory to depart as the sin of the golden Calf had done before wherein Aaron had a Hand in the Sin also Moses is Vindicated by God himself Numb 12. 4. He that had been a Lyon in Gods Cause in breaking the Calf to Powder was a Lamb in his own and the less he speaks for himself the more God speaks for him God Hears and Stirs Yea and Strikes Miriam with Leprosie because Chief in the crime and possibly more passionate and peremptory in her Reports and Reproaches Not Aaron because he was the Judge of Leprosie and so could not be tainted with it as some say but rather because he met God by Repentance v. 10. So disarm'd Gods Indignation and Redeem'd his own sorrow Yea and Miriam was humbled too Deut. 24. 9. The People staying and Mourning for her to go before them Micha 6. 5. till she was Recover'd And another Disturbance after this Halt was They Journeyed to Kadesh-barnea Numb 13. 3 26. not far from the South-point of the Land of Promise Deut. 1. 2 19. 20. From hence they sent the Spys which no doubt but the Devil of Unbelief put them upon seeing God had before Spyed out the Land for them Ezek. 20. 6. and Search'd it out Deut. 1. 33. But this Satisfied them not Seeing with them must be Believing Those Spys came to Hebron Deut. 1. 22. and Returning with the Fruit of the Land Ten against Two great odds prove the Devils Instruments who had prompted them to this Practice and Rais'd an hard Report upon the Glory of all Lands Ezek. 20.6 Numb 13. 32. Hereupon Israel falls upon Mistakes As 1st That the Lord Hated them Deut. 1.27 whereas never was Child more Charily carried by a Tender Father as his own Bowels and never was Prince served in more State than they had been all along yet they thus Desperately Belyed the Lord. 2dly They make themselves a Captain to Return to Aegypt Neh. 9. 16 17. as if that were better for them which could no way be Thus they cast the Helve according to the Proverb after the Hatchet and like Children because they might not have what they would grew Sullain and would have nothing This highly pleased the Devil and the rather because it mightily Displeased the Lord insomuch as he Swore They should wander in a Circle until they were worn out and spend about 38 y. in Journeying from that place of their Sin Kadish-Barnea to the self-same place Kadish-Barnea again Numb 33. 18. and 37. which is call'd Richmah here but before Paran and Kadesh Numb 13. 3 26. and Deut. 1. 19. Kadish-Barnea as the Lord was there Sanctify'd Hebr. Kadesh upon the People and made them Wandring Sons as Barnea signifies Numb 14. 32. Yea and there Mans Life was shortned from Hundreds of Years they had Lived to 70 or 80 Y. as Moses then making the 90 Psalm sheweth to wear them out the sooner And thus God was a Moth to them to wear them Sensim sine Sensu insensibly away though he would not be as a Lyon to them to Devour them at once and to Extirpate them utterly Hos 5. 12 14. because he had Pardon'd them at Moses Prayer Numb 14.20 And therefore doth he Preserve their Children both to Propagate the Church and to Possess the Land However this sad Doom both in cutting their Lives shorter and in causing them to Wander so as to make that way which in it self was but 11 days Journey Deut. 1. 2. to be above Three times 11 years Journey long Expos'd them for the Devil of Discontent to possess Hence arose this grand Plot Korah's Conspiracy as well as all their other Murmuring afterwards Korah was the Devils Chief Instrument in this 3d. and Grand Disturbance or Internal Impediment in the Church's Motion towards Canaan he was the Principal Rebel Hence this Plot is call'd Korah's conspiracy and 't is Korah's Congregation or Company Numb 16. 5 16 22. and 26. 9. and 27. 3. And the Gain-saying of Korah Jude v. 11. And to make his Conspiracy the stronger draws in Dathan and Abiram to be his Complices Yea and 250 Princes of the Assembly Numb 16. 2. and not onely so but even all the Congregation v. 19. Who were all too ready to promote this Plot he having perswaded them that God also would promote and Prosper it v. 41. Thus one Scabb'd Sheep infected the whole Flock and as Juvenal saith Vuaque Corruptâ livorem ducitabab Vuâ Hence the Psalmist Imputeth this Conspiracy to all Israel They Envyed Moses also and Aaron the Saint of the Lord Psa 106. 16. Inasmuch as the People did neither Desire to Punish those Conspirators nor Enter'd their protest against them they are all look'd on as a Rabble of Rebels against God and his Servants and accused as Guilty of the Sin Thus Satans sowr Leaven almost Leaven'd the whole Lump And though Aaron was not Innocent in the Two former Internal Impediments being an Accessory in them both yet in this he keeps Clean and is call'd a Saint of 〈◊〉 Lord being one of the main Marks those Rebels Shot at for Korah his Cousin-German Exod. 6. 18. of the Tribe of Levi Aspired to have the Priest-Hood from Aaron v. 11. and being enraged that Elizaphan Son of the 4th Family should be preferred before himself of the 2d Family Numb 3. 30 and he Incenses Dathan and Abiram who were his next Neighbours in the Camp so soonest seduced to claim the Principality from Moses as being of Reuben the First-Born 'T is against Moses and against Aaron Numb 16. 3 11. against Magistracy and against Ministry a Desperate and Dangerous Conspiracy 1st In Slaunderlng the Governours that they took too much State too much Power too much Honour and too much Holiness upon them whereas they took none of these upon them but what the Lord God had given them Hebr. 3. 3. and 5. 4. Thus these Ring-leaders of the Rebellion most Presumptuously prescribe an Amendment of Gods Word and Work and would have his Divine Institutions to truckle unto their Humane Humours and fond Inventions 2dly In Flattering the Governed As if the People were Holy and might make their immediate approaches to God both with their Incense and Offerings All this is as false as the former Moses was Ambitious say they 'T is as true as Israel was Holy much alike had Moses been so while God lifted him up over Israel he had never faln at their Feet as v. 1. And had Israel been Holy who

all 1 Kin. 11. 11 12 13. 1. For Davids sake which is five times repeated there for his honour and 2. For Jerusalems sake both which had peculiar promises as 1. David 2 Sam. 7. 9 10 11 12 16. all performed by the promiser either in the Types ' or Antitypes 2. Jerusalem that holy City Neh. 11. 1. 18. Isa 52. 1. wherein Zion and the Temple stood and was the special Type of the Church Psal 51. 18. Isa 62. 1 7. and 66. 20. Revel 21. 2. and therein God promis'd to David his servant that he should have a light or Lamp always 1 Kin. 11. v. 36. to wit a Royal Successor that should shine before his people which was most properly accomplish'd in Christ Luke 2. 32. The Scepter could not be taken either by men or Devils from Judah until Shilo came Gen. 49. 10. and then was he a light to the Gentiles as he had been and still was a glory to Israel Now though the Devil that Grand Make-bate of the World had a great hand in this Rent or Division together with his Impious Instrument Jeroboam yet the Lord had a greater hand in it to ordain order and over-rule all For thus saith the Lord This thing is from me and the cause was from the Lord as well as from the Devil 1 Kin. 12. 15.24 As it was a sin call'd Rebellion Ch. 12. 19. so it was from the Devil but as it was a punishment of sin both of Solomons Idolatry Ch. 11. v. 11. and of Rehoboams insolency so it was from God as an Act of Justice from the Supreme Judge Am. 3. 6. God here withdraws the Spirit of Wisdom from Rehoboam and leaves him to his own egregious folly as Chap. 22. 23. 2 Chron. 25. 20. and 32. 31. God knows how to order the disorders of the World to his own glory as having an over-ruling Providence beyond mans purpose and an over-pouring power still to preserve his poor Church though Solomon had been sharing himself betwixt God and Idols and therefore his servant Jeroboam shall share the Kingdome with his Son Rehoboam yea and bear away the better half from him yet Judah still rules with God and God with them and is faithful with the Saints When Ephraim the ten Tribes compassed God about with lyes Hos 11. v. 12. that is while back-sliding Israel went after their Leaden Priests made by Jeroboam of the basest of the people and their Golden Calves Judah kept tite to the Temple-worship and firm in the true Religion Thus the most gracious God even in the midst of wrath remembers mercy and leaves this blessing soon repenting of the evil behind him that a Lamp should be lighted in Jerusalem which the most boistrous blasts of the Devil and his Instruments should not blow out The Sixteenth Plot against the CHURCH in Canaan Defeated by GOD. CHAP. XVI NOw when the Devil had divided so great a share of Davids Kingdome to himself by Divine Permission the Lord of the Soyl Hos 9. 3. Isa 8. 8. giving way for his own glory to such sad Incroachments he falls upon sowing the cursed seed of his Tares upon the Lords Land among those Tribes who disdain'd to live any longer by the Lords Law Oh wonderful there was no visible Church upon Earth at this time but in the Land of Promise and yet the only wise God gives up to Satan when all the World lay in wickedness 1 Joh. 5. 19. and so in the possession of that wicked one even the largest share of his own Land also though it was but a little spot of Land no bigger than our Wales in all Thus the Lords Land Levit. 25. 23. became the Devils Land too in the greatest part with all the rest of the Habitable World Oh how unsearchable are the ways of the Lord and his works past find-out Rom. 11. 33 34 35. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh the bottomless depth of Divine Wisdome the Devil having got this leave against Israel as once against Job when Gods Hedge was gone begins to lay waste Gods Vineyard Isa 5. 5 6. He now falls to work for debauching Israel he first makes them cast off their true Soveraign and chuse a false one Jeroboam the Son of Nebat must be the man one that wanted neither Craft nor Courage to back this Horse which had cast his Rider Next to Achitophel the Devil had not a craftier Head to plot against the Church than this Leader of the Faction and Fraction As the subtil Serpent infused into him his subtilty for stealing a Scepter so for securing it to him when he had stoln it His Plotting Head had this considering Cap upon it 't was but a pang of discontent that made me King violent things are not permanent sudden Paroxysmes or Fits of passion have as sudden Relaxations and recoveries the Revolters cannot return thrice a year to the Temple in Jerusalem as God commands them Exod. 34. 23. but 't will make them revolt from me and return to Rehoboam I must either keep them off from God or I shall never keep them off from Loyalty and Piety Therefore to give them a pleasant Diversion when he durst not offer a direct Restraint and Prohibition he changes and adulterates that Religion which he dare neither inhibit nor abolish Hereupon this new King plots to make Israel a new God and for their ease nearer home too that they might not be toiled with going so far as the Temple pretending to be more merciful to the people than the most merciful God yea and more prudent than he in his more compendious and plausible way of worship altogether accommodated to the ease and humour of the people Aaron had humour'd Israel with one Golden Calf such as they had seen long in Egypt Exod. 32. 4. Now Jeroboam who had lately lived there 1 Kin. 11. 40. judges it proper after Aarons example to humour them with two which he sets up at Dan and Bethel at both the ends of the Land North and South 1 Kin. 12. 27 28 29. Thus took he crafty counsel of his cursed Courtiers and so he might secure his Realm and Region he matter'd not though Religion were run down to ruine And this thing became a sin to Israel v. 30. a most heinous sin though it was but a base thing this Image was one of the basest Psal 106. 20. The Image of a Calf eating Hay Oh what Brutish Creatures were Israel made by an Intoxicating Devil Psal 115. 8. so as to fall down and worship such a Brutish Creature as a Calf as soon as it was set up yea that service which was only due to God was performed to Devils in this base thing 2 Chron. 11. 15. all Idolatry is Devil-worship all Devotion that is not done to God nor by a Divine Warrant is done to the Devil there is no Medium or Mean betwixt them 1 Cor. 10. 20 21. Revel 9. 20. Now the Devil that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Idol-lover had