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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

rebuked by a Prophet because they being so often deliuered out of the handes of their enemies by God and hauing receaued so many benefits from his diuine bounty did neuertheles so often depart from his seruice and worship But when they were most importunate and instant with God in their prayers for their deliuery he raysed Gedeon to whome an Angell was sent in mans forme encouraging him to so great a worke who when he was assured by pregnant signes from heauen of the victory he alone with three hundred vnarmed men furnished only with a trumpet and a vessell of earth containing in it a firebrand vndertooke so great an enterprise These sounding the trumpet in three places of the army there instantly did ryse so great a tumult amōg the enemies as that they being stroken with a sudden fury partly by killing one another with their owne swords and partly by being slaine in the pursuit there were dead of them more then a hundred thousand Gedeon being dead they relapsed againe to Idolatry for which cause our Lord deliuered thē to the power of the Philistians and the Ammonites from whose hands they receaued great afflictiōs and pressures during the tyme of eighteene yeares they returning againe to our Lord asking pardon of him obtained for their captaine Iephte who being prouided of an army fought with the enemies and got at one tyme twenty of the Ammonites citties restoring the Israelites to their former liberty Scarcely had fiue and twenty yeares passed from the death of Iepthe but the Israelites returned againe to their old vomit by abandoning of God of whose benefites they had before so often tasted plunging themselues a new into Idolatry the chiefe cause of all their miseries and therfore they were made againe subiect vnder the yoke of the Philistians during the space of forty yeares but in the end God being moued with mercy sent them Sampson whose strength of body was such seconded with the peculiar force of God as nothing was able to withstand him for he toare a sunder with his handes a Lyon that came fiercely vpon him and carryed vpon his shoulders the gate doores of the citty Gaza within which being besieged by his enemyes he was shut in like sort he being vnarmed inuaded the whole army of many armed souldiers ōly with the Iaw bone of an Asse wherewith he killed a thousand droue the rest into flight Againe he ouer threw the house of Dagon two of the chiefe pillars therof being shaken downe by the strength of his arme many thousandes of the Philistiās who were present being killed with the fall Which afflictions gaue to the Israelites some breathing tyme of ease and rest but they againe enioying a long peace and increasing the mount of their former sinnes with the accesse of more they were once more cast into the handes of Philistians by whome there were slaine 34. thousand Israelites besides the Arke was taken the keepers of it to wit Ophni Phinees two principall Priests were killed as God fore●ould by Samuel that the same should come to passe This calamity happened in the fortith yeare of Heli. Yet heere were the Israelites though ouercome so punished as that the Philistians though conquerours were afflicted with farre more grieuous miseries for when they offered the Arke of God to their Idol as a spoyle to to the Victour God in reuénge of so great an indignity punished them seueral waies for the Idol did not only fall twice downe before the Arke the head and handes of it being maymed and broken but also the bodies of the Philistians throughout all the citties were stroken with a most loathsome disease to wit their hindermost intestine or gut became putrifyed stood farre out so as innumerable dyed thereof Besides al their fruite of the earth their yeares prouision aforehand were eaten consumed with abundance of myce comming out of the fieldes and villages Doubtlesly these tribulations were farre more heauy then if they had beene brought vnder the yoake of the Israelites Therefore the Philistians were in the end enforced to confesse the power of God of Israel and honourably to send backe the Arke with all its dowryes and guifts euen by those men who were witnesses of the calamities inflicted by God vpon them All this is at large set downe in the bookes of the Iudges 1. Sixthly those thinges are to be taken in our consideration which chanced to the Israelits being vnder the gouerment of the Kinges First Saul after a wonderfull manner and by the speciall fauour of God to wit by diuine election and also by lot was aduanced to the kingdome who when he would not obey Gods commandments was with all his posterity depriued by God of all regall authority and in the end his army being vanquished and the kingdome transferred vpon Dauid himself with his eldest sonne was slaine in the warre 2. Dauid although a great worshipper of God had his sinnes to wit the one of his adultery and the other of his homicide most seuerely punished of God euen after his repentance for his Sonne to his great griefe was depriued of life and the fairest of his daughters was violated and defaced with an infamous incest by his eldest son and the sayd sonne was afterwardes treacherously slaine by his owne brother and Dauid himselfe was contume●●ously cast out of the Kingdome by his owne sonne and his wiues were constuprated abused by his sonne All which aduersities that they should fall to him in punishment of his adultery homicide were foretold by Nathan the Prophet 3. Againe when Dauid sinned through elation pride of mind in numbring the people God in punishment there of by his Prophet Gad sent to him gaue him choyce of one of these three chastisements to wit whether his kingdome should be afflicted with famine for seauen yeares or himselfe should be ouercome by his enemies for three moneths or should be infected with pestilence for three dayes Wherupon Dauid seing himselfe brought into these straights thus answered Coarctor nimis c. I am straitned ouermuch but it is better that I fall into the hands of God for many are his mercyes then iuto the hands of men And answerably hereto he made choyce of pestilence with the which being suddenly sent from God there dyed seauenty thousand men in three dayes but after sacrifice being offered vp for the appeasing of Gods iustice the plague instantly ceased 4. Salomon succeeded Dauid who being indued from God with a greater measure of wisdome then any other man and enioying more riches honour glory and a longer peace then any of the former Kings of that people at length being giuen ouer to the loue of women was so absorpt with the pleasure of them as that for their sakes he was content to worship Idols In reuēge of which so great an offence God presently after his death diuided shared his Kingdome ten trybes wherof were transferred vpon Ierobam

and the other two only left to the sonne of Salomon with which point Salomon in his life tyme was threatned certainly The prouidence of God appeared wōderfully in the execution of this diuision as is to be seene in the third book of the Kings cap. 11. and 12. 5. Ieroboam aduanced from a meane estate to the Kingdome was mainly bent to fortify settle himselfe by al meanes whatsoeuer he fearing then that if the People went yearely to Ierusalem to sacrifice in the Temple of the Lord that his Kingdome might be lost the people turning thēselues to Roboam King of Iuda therefore for the better preuention hereof he caused two golden calues to be erected vp as Gods and diuulged an Edict whereby the people were commanded not to go to Ierusalem but to sacrifice to those two Idols This proceeding might perhaps seeme much conducing to the preseruation of his politicke state and yet in a mature consideration of the matter nothing could be inuented more sorting fitting to the vtter subuersion thereof for it is said in the third of the Kings cap. 13. For this cause the house of Ieroboam is ouerthrowne and blotted out of the roundnes of the earth He raigned 22. yeares not without great troubles and molestations who being dead his sonne Nadab succeeded but he scarce gouerned two yeares being depriued both of his life and Kingdome by his seruant Baasa who instantly so extinguished the race and family of Ieroboam as that there was not left one thereof And this very thing was threatned to him by the Prophet But such for the most part are the Counsels and proiects of polititians of whome this Ieroboam may serue for an example who make religion to be subiect and seruiceable to policy who imbrace that profession of faith which best sorteth eyther to the obtayning or keeping or encreasing of their States and other such humane respects for although their subtle machinations and plots seeme at the first to be specious fayre and conuenient yet in processe of tyme they commonly inuolue and intangle the Actours with great difficulties such as in the end do occasion their destruction all which proceedeth from the disposall of the diuine Prouidence which euer hath a predominancy and ouerruling ouer mens actions and determinations 6. After the death of Ieroboam and his sonne the Empyre of the Israelites was houlden by Baasa whose indiscretion and madnes was wonderfull for though he knew that Ieroboam with his whole family was vtterly extinct for committing of Idolatry notwithstanding himselfe did not forsake it wherefore the like finall destruction was denounced against him by the Prophet Ie●u the execution whereof was not long delayed For when he had raigned two twenty yeares as Ieroboam did that his sonne Ela succeeded him euen in the secōd yeare of Ela one of his Captaines by name Zamri did ryse vp against him who being killed Zamri inuaded the kingdome and presently by death did extirpate all the family of Baasa Some few yeares after the same fortune happened to King Achab and to his impious wife Iesabel for Achab himselfe after he had tasted of many calamities was slaine in warre against the Syrians and after his death Iehu appointed by God captaine or leader of the warre killed Ochozias the sonne of Achab and successour of the Kingdome as also all his progeny and caused Iesabel the Queen to be cast frō a height headlong downe to be deuoured of dogs Al which miseries God by his Prophets did foretell to fall vnto them by reason of their idolatry and their other sinnes 8. At the length seeing the Kings of Israel and the people would neuer cease from sinning and particulerly from worshipping of Idols notwithstanding so many comminations and threats so many admonitions and increpations and so many chastisements inflicted by God for this their offence they were in the end depriued of their Kingdome Citties houses grounds possessions and liberty themselues being carryed away into Assyria to liue in perpetuall bondage and slauery Iust after this manner the prouidence of God carryed itselfe towardes the Kinges of Iuda and that people for as often as they yielded to the committing of Idolatry they were worne out with diuers warres and calamities till they became penitēt of their former sinnes but when they worshipped God truly and religiously then they enioyed great prosperity and were honoured with many victoryes as also flowed in all opulency and wealth as it falled out in Abia Asa Iosaphaet and Ezechias For against Abia King of Iuda Ieroboam came with fourescore thousand men but Abia finding himselfe much inferiour in forces put his sole confidence in his prayers to God beseeching his help and ayde whereupon God sending a terrour into the army of Ieroboam forced it to flight the which Abia following killed fifty thousand of his men and tooke many of his citties But Asa had a farre more famous victory for Zara the Ethiopian with a huge army consisting often hundred thousand armed men made warre vpon Asa who though farre inferiour in force yet putting his trust in our Lord met him in the field and vpon his humble prayers made to him the Ethiopians were suddenly affrighted and dismayed and thereupon began to fly but Asa following them killed most of the army and returned enriched with in finite spoiles of the enemy Neither was lesse wonderfull that victory of Iosaphat who only with his prayers vertue and assured hope of Gods assistance without any weapons at all ouercame a mighty army which was gathered of three very populous nations to wit the Ammonites Moabites and the Idumeans For his small forces being drawne out against the enemy he commanded his Quiristers who did sing diuine seruice laudes to go before his souldiers singing at which sight the Enemies were by Gods speciall prouidence possessed with such a fury as that they killed one another leauing a great valew of spoyles to the Iewes To the former may worthily be adioined the victory of Ezechias who as being brought to great extremities by the Assyrians made his recourse to God by prayer who hearing him sent an Angell to assist him who in one night killed one hundred sourscore and fiue thousand Assiryans I omit the captiuity of Babilon the history of Esther the history of Iudith the history of ●obias the warres of the Machabees the besieging of the Romans and the vtter ouerthrow of the Iewes in all which the prouidence of God hath wonderfully appeared It were an infinite labour to set downe all those examples in which the Diuine Prouidence hath helped succoured and extolled the godly and vertuous and on the other side hath depressed humbled chastised punished the impious and wicked For indeed the chiefest subiect of the holy Scripture is this seeing all their narrations doe tend to this end to wit to instruct men that prosperity and aduersity do depend of the prouidence of God and that both these