Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	fire_n	murmur_v	21	3	11.0590	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05370	Ravvleigh his ghost. Or a feigned apparition of Syr VValter Rawleigh to a friend of his, for the translating into English, the booke of Leonard Lessius (that most learned man) entituled, De prouidentia numinis, & animi immortalitate: written against atheists, and polititians of these dayes. Translated by A. B.; De providentia numinis, et animi immortalitate. English	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Knott, Edward, 1582-1656.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1631 (1631)	STC 15523; ESTC S102372	201,300	468

with a vast opennes mighty fragour and noyse it did absorpe and swallow downe Core Dathan and Abiron with all their tabernacles and goodes and after closed it selfe togeather not leauing any print or shew of its former opening and as touching the other two hundred and fifty being their associates in rebelling a huge fire from heauen rushed vpon them cōsumed them so as no parcels of their bodies remayned The day after when as the people began another insurrection against Moyses and Aaron as esteming them the authours of the former destruction and that God for their sakes punished with death as they thought innocent men at which God was so highly offended that he sent a fyar among them with the which fourteene thousand and seauen hundred were instantly burned to death 10. Another tyme in like sort the people through the tedious wearisomnes of their iourney murmuring against God he againe sent a fyar among them which deuoured and consumed the vttermost parts of their camps and tents had wasted further therein if Moyses had not prayed to the contrary at whose prayers the earth opening the fyar descended downewards and so ceased 11. Not long after this the people againe murmuring against the diuine Maiesty by reason of the length of their trauell God sent among them certaine fiery serpetns at whose stingings and by tings many of the people submitted themselues to Moyses with acknowledgment of their sinne Thereupon Moyses by the cōmandement of God erected the brazen serpent hanging it vpon a high Pole or forke at the beholding only whereof all those were cured that were afore wounded by the foresaid dangerous serpents This was a most illustrious and cleare type or figure of Christ our Lord hanging vpon the Crosse in the beliefe and faith of whome alone the wounds of the old serpent are cured and eternall saluation is purchased 12. To conclude during those forty yeares of the Israelites stay in the wildernes neither their clothes nor their shoes became worse or old with wearing Gods good prouidence so preseruing them in that they had not there conuenient meanes of procuring of new Add to all these former so many helpes and furtherances in their warrs so many famous victories obtained through Gods particuler assistance so many of their enemies slaine either with no losse or with very small on the Israelites side we read that the Army of Amalec was ouercome by the Israelites through the prayers of Moyses for during all that tyme that Moyses was lifting vp his hands to God Israell ouercame and when he suffered his hands to fall downe Amalec vanquished which point no doubt serued as a great mistery The riuer of Iordan did deuide it selfe in the presence of the Arke to wit the higher part of it swelling as a mountaine and the lower part altogether dry and gaue passages to all the people The walles of Iericbo being most strōg fell downe to the ground only at the sound of the trumpets voice or clamour of the ●●●ple Many of the army of the fiue kings of the Amorrheans being discomfited by the Israelites and flying away were in their flight killed by haile stones sent from heauen The Sunne and the Moone at the commandement of Iosue God yealding to his petition for the space of ten or twelue houres stayed their motions vntill he had vanquished his enemyes I omit many other fauours granted to the people of Israel for their obtaining of the land of Promise all which do euidently demonstrate the peculiar prouidence assistance of God Now all these euents serued but as figures and types of such things as should happen in the Church during the tyme of the new testament also they are of force to secure vs now in tyme of grace of Gods prouidence besides in freeing his seruantes from the bondage of the Diuel for our entrance into the heauenly country Fiftly those things are to be considered which chanced to the Israelites when they were gouerned by Iudges and after they entred into the land of Promise for as oftē as after the custome of other countries they fell to the worship of Idols they were most grieuously afflicted by God as being brought vnder the yoke and seruitude of their enemyes but when soeuer they grew truly penitent of such their Idolatry returning vnto God with a contrite and sincere mind then God being at hand ready to commiserate the distressed raised vnto thē a Captaine or leader which did vindicate and free them from their thraldome and oppression and did reduce thē to their former liberty For seauen seuerall tymes a thing most strange and wonderfull while they were gouerned by captaines this hapned for as often they relapsed into Idolatry so often they were deliuered into the hands of their enemies and so often flying with true penitency vnto God they were succoured And first Iosue and others of the more ancient being dead who were behoulders of the wonderfull workes of God and contained the people in the true religion they left God mancipating and subiecting themselues to the worshipping of the Idols of Baalim and Astaroth For which sinne God deliuered them into the hands of Chusan Rathasa●m King of Mesopotamia whome they serued eight yeares Now this subiection seeming in the end very heauy vnto them and they through the admonition of holy men acknowledging it to be inflicted by God for their sinne of ●dolatry being penitent for it earnestly beseeched mercy and helpe therefore our Lord taking mercy of them sent them Othoniell who gathering forces ouerthrew the King of Mesopotamia and freed the people from their bondage After the death of Othoniell the people againe forgetful of Gods benefits and commandements led with the custome of other countries returned to Idolatry for the punishment of which their sinne our Lord stirred vp Eglon King of Moab with the Amalites and Amalacites by whome they were badly intreated for the space of eighteene yeares but they after loathing their former sinnes and flying vnto God for pardon God sent them Aod who with the death of the King and destruction of the army of the Moabites set the people at liberty Aod being dead they returned againe to Idolatry in reuenge of which wickednes our Lord deliuered them vp vnto the power of Iabin King of Chanaan who afflicted them twenty yeares together but tribulation giuing them againe vnderstāding they grieued for their sinnes and supplicated Gods mercy who moued there with raysed vp Debora a prophetesse Barac a man of armes who gathering an army vanquished the forces of the King of Iabin with the death of Sisara his captaine by the hands of a woman called Iahel The people of Israel enioying peace and quiet fell againe to idolatry and became therefore subiect to the Madianits by whome during seauen yeares they were grieuously oppressed But they being in this calamity repented and prayed help frō God whereupon they were first sharply