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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	aaron_n	appear_v	carcase_n	25	3	11.1891	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46286	The works of Josephus with great diligence revised and amended according to the excellent French translation of Monsieur Arnauld D'Andilly : also the Embassy of Philo Judæus to the Emperor Caius Caligula; Works. English. 1676	Josephus, Flavius.; Philo, of Alexandria. De legatione ad Gaium. English.; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.; Arnauld d'Andilly, Monsieur (Robert), 1588-1674.	1676 (1676)	Wing J1078; ESTC R11907	1,698,071	934

this People ignorant thereof But because they maliciously interpret my management of affairs be pleas'd O my God to give them a testimony of my innocence At such time as I led a peaceable life and that by thy help and my labour and my Father-in-law Raguels favour I liv'd quietly and happily I forsook the possession of my goods and the fruition of my peace E to ingage my self in these miseries which I have suffered for these Men and particularly for their liberty and now likewise for their safety I have most readily undertaken grievous travels Now therefore since I am grown into suspition among those Men who by my care and providence have escaped so many mischiefs and miseries thou that appearedst unto me in that fire on the Mountain of Sinai and vouchsafedst both to speak unto me and to confirm me by the sight of miracles who in thy Name didst send me a messenger into Egypt who hast abated the pride of the Egyptians and hast given us means to escape from their Servitude and hast humbled Pharaohs power when we were ignorant of our way by giving us a passage thorow the Sea in whose bottom afterward the Egyptians were drowned who gavest us Arms when we were naked thou madest the bitter water savory and fit to be drunk of and in our scarcity of water F enforcedst drink for us out of the bowels of the hard Rock and when we found no meat on the Land didst send it us from the Sea Moreover as a thing never before heard of affordedst us meat from Heaven and hast established our estate with admirable and holy Laws Be thou O Lord my Judge in all things and my unpartial witness that I have not been corrupted by any bribe of any particular Hebrew to favour injustice nor suffered a poor Man in his just cause to lose his right against a rich adversary And now having administred the Commonwealth with all sincerity I am called in question for a crime whereof I am altogether guiltless as if I had conferred thy Priesthood on my Brother for private affection and not by thy command make it known that all things are disposed by thy providence and that nothing is brought to effect by casualty but by thy special ordinance And to shew that thou hast care of the Hebrews testifie G the same by thy just p●nishment inflicted on Dathan and Abiram who accuse thee to be insensible and boast that thou art circumvented by my subtilties But thou shalt make thy revenge most notorious upon the unbridled detractors of thy glory if they perish after no common manner but let the earth which they unworthily tread upon open it self and swallow them up with all H their Families and substance By this means both thy power will manifestly appear unto all Men and thou shalt leave an example to posterity that no Man hereafter shall dare to think otherwise of thy Majesty than becometh him and my ministry shall be proved to proceed from thy direction Dathan and Abiram swallowed up But if those crimes be truly urged which are inforced against me then let the curse return and light on mine head and let those whom I have cursed live in safety But Lord after thou hast inflicted punishment upon those that disturb thy People keep the rest of the multitude in peace v. 31 32 33. concord and observation of thy commandments since it is contrary to thy justice that the innocent multitude of the Israelites should answer their misdeeds and suffer their punishments Whilest he spake these words and intermixed them with tears the earth presently trembled and shaking began to be agitated after such a manner as I the waves of the Sea are by the winds in a great Tempest Hereat were all the People amazed and soon after with a dreadful noise the earth opened and swallowed up the seditious with their Families their Tents and all their Goods so that nothing remained of theirs to be seen Whereupon in a moment the earth closed again and the vast gaping was shut so that there appeared not any sign of that which had hapned Thus perished they all leaving behind them an example of God's power and judgments This accident was the more deplorable in that their was none of their kindred or allies that had compassion of them so that even those that had sided with them praised God's Justice with joyful acclamations esteeming them unworthy to be bemoaned but to be held as the plague and perverters of the People After that Dathan with his Family K was extinguished Moses assembled all those that contended for the Priesthood together committing again the election of the Priesthood unto God concluding that that honour should be ratified to him whose sacrifice was most acceptable in God's sight For which cause the two hundred and fifty Men assembled themselves who were both honoured for the virtue of their Ancestors and for their own abilities with these also stood Aaron and Chore and all of them offered with their censors before the Tabernacle such perfumes as they brought with them when suddenly so great a fire shone as the like was never seen either breaking forth from the bowels of the burning earth kindled in Forests by the Sun and Winds but such an one as seemed to be kindled by God himself most bright and flaming Chore with two hundred and fifty Men is consumed with fire by force and power whereof those two hundred and L fifty together with Chore were so consumed that there scarce appeared the least relique of their carcasses onely Aaron remained untouched to the end it might appear that this fire came from Heaven These things thus brought to pass Moses intending to leave a perpetual memory to posterity of that punishment to the end they should not be ignorant thereof commanded Eleazar the Son of Aaron to consecrate their Censors and fasten them to the Brazen Altar that by reason of this Monument all Men might be terrified who think that the Divine power can be circumvented by humane policy CHAP. IV. M What things hapned in thirty eight years space to the Hebrews in the Desart AFter that by so evident an Argument it appeared sufficiently Numb 17. 1 2 3. ad finem that Aaron neither by sinister insinuations nor by the favour of his Brother but onely by God's election had obtained the Priesthood he ever after held it without any contradiction Yet for all this Another sedition against Moses a new sedition brake out among the People with greater fury than at first by reason of the Subject which occasioned it For though they were perswaded that all that had hapned was brought to pass by God's order and will yet they imagined that God wrought these things in favor of Moses to him therefore imputed they all these things as if God had not punished those Men through indignation N against their sins but onely upon Moses sollicitation and they