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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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