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A66899 Moses and Aaron, the king and the priest by the author of the examination of Tilenus before the triers, in the time of the late rebellion. Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685. 1675 (1675) Wing W3346; ESTC R20340 27,170 67

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though but Ceremonies God prescribes them and though they be Jos 22. 10. but of Mans Institution he allows of them Such signs do not confer Grace ex opere operato not by any real efficacy no nor yet by way of impetration they cannot do it They have no Natural Power no divine Promise for it But they are fair Objects to excite and refresh the Memory And he that will either eschew evil or do good must first remember that it is his duty and in this sence and to this effect every monument of Gods Justice every remanent instance of the Divine Mercy may become sacramental to us But had Almighty God left himself and his Servant Aaron without witness hitherto No those 250 men with Corah and some Numb 26. 10. others they became a sign And the brasen Censers of those that offer'd incense were made a sign too they were converted into plates for a covering of the Altar to be a Chap. 16. 40. Memorial unto the children of Israel They could not approach the Altar but the reflection of those plates was a cleer conviction of their late Miscarriages But when men will proceed in their sin after judgment they provoke God to erect more signs to upbraid their stubbornness and ingratitude when they importune him contrary to his express Revelations they get nothing by it in the end but the brand of a more lasting infamy For 4. This Rod is kept in signum Rebellium filiorum Israel for a token against the Rebels God had past an Act of oblivion upon Moses's Intercession in favour of this People Numb 14. 21. Dimisi peccatum populi hujus juxta verbum tuum But God forgets our sins upon condition we keep a Record and repent of them If we do repeat them we revive the memory of our past transgressions and set up a light by which those dim characters of our guilt over which the hand of charity had drawn a curtain become legible And yet even here the inestimable Goodness of God is remarkable he does so mercifully chastize their pride that the testimony of their contumacy shall be the means of their cure a provision for their amendment and an Antidote against the peril of Recidivation This Rod is to be kept for a token Vt quiescant querelae ne moriantur To take away their Murmurings from me yea and against me too for they were not so much against Aaron as against the Lord That they die not and that was the Design in this Transaction Vt quiescant querelae to silence and still their Murmurings Ambition is restless and knows no bounds Cogitet qui honorem affectat tempestatem se affectare He that affecteth Honour does court a tempest for Quid est potestas culminis nisi tempestas mentis Philo. Such as climb the pinnacle of Ambition are psal 106. 16. tossed with the greatest tempests These Israelites began with Envy proceeded to Murmuring and at last grew insolent even to an insurrection they make a forcible entry upon the sacred office and commit a notorious riot wherein many thousands perish God having installed Aaron and his Sons in the Priests Office added this sanction to the Numb 3. 10. establishment The stranger that cometh near shall be put to death Yet their Ambition was grown so great and their Animosities so high That God saw it time to take up the quarrel else all the Tribes had died in it The earth swallowed them up and yet they murmured The Fire consumed them and yet they murmured The Plague made havock of them and yet they murmured And this spirit of perversness was so great a provocation to a noble and ingenuous nature God could not but be severe in punishing Numb 14. 10. of it They had rejected their Guides and were ready to stone any charitable Informer Nothing but a lasting miracle can shame and silence them Aarons Rod inshrin'd in the sanctuary must compose their spirits and make peace betwixt God and them betwixt them and themselves If it cannot heal their perversities it will so far charm them into temper as to bridle and restrain their boldness They will now suffer Aaron quietly to perform his Office and his Ministry will be a means to keep off future judgments And to this end the Lord said unto Moses Bring Aarons Rod again before the testimony to be kept c. What Aaron was amongst the Tribes of Application Ifrael the same upon the matter is the Bishop in his Province and Corah was the figure of such as make Rents and Schismes in the Church of Christ who are therefore said to have perished in the gainsaying of Corah as Jud. Ep. v. 11. in their Representative And yet Good God! What an Insurrection hath been made amongst us upon that account Aaron he was voted down and deposed and in fine you cannot forget what became of Moses But to make haste out of that wilderness and from amongst those fiery serpents that stung so deadly Moses must be recalled to appease our tumults to still our murmurings and settle us in Tranquillity To this end Dixit Dominus The Lord spake unto his Majesty not Immediately by a voice from Heaven but by the voice of holy Scriptures and ancient Councils by the voice of Reason and Experience by the voice of fundamental Laws and Customs by the voice of Orthodox Fathers and dutiful Sons by the voice of Royal blood and by the voice of our great disorders and confusions Many Cobwebs were to be swept down from our Church-windows and much rubbish to be swept out of our Church-doors and much dust to be brusht off the garments of inferiour Priests and Levites some things were amiss in the house of God and no such Rule as Aarons Rod to square out a Reformation These were the Lords voice crying unto Moses to the King refer virgam bring the Rod again c. But had we not a Rod already A rod with a vengeance a Rod of Corah's own stock of Corah's own gathering Floruit virga Ezek. 7. 10 11. germinavit superbia iniquitas surrexit in virga Ours was just of the same constitution The Radix the root of it was iniquity and that branched out into oppression and violence A rod of Iron this was that broke the Royal Scepter and beat down the Royal Branches and dasht the Church in pieces A ragged staffe whose fangs were steel'd with Malice and died with innocent blood It knockt down Moses and thrust out Aaron away with such a Rod and God be thanked this Rod of the wicked did not rest upon the lot of the Righteous though it was somewhat long in motion rowling up and down yet it did not it could not rest it was acted by such a vertiginous spirit This Rod was at last thrown away and Moses restored And the Lord said unto Moses bring Aarons Rod again before the testimony Not a Rod of Aarons own growth or gathering but a