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A01974	Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653. Dignitie of chivalrie.; Gods three arrowes. aut	1631 (1631)	STC 12116; ESTC S103284	362,085	493

and Angels is a meere humane invention never could any Papist give any good proofe for it out of Gods Word nor ever hereafter can any do it That which is not in Gods Word cannot be drawne out of it This is such strange fire as will devoure them that use it even as a Lev. 10. 1 2. The fire that went out from the Lord devoured Nadab and Abihu and as b Numb 16. 35. that which consumed the two hundred and fifty men that being of the conspiracy of Korah offered incense incense that much incensed the fire of Gods wrath To reason the case a little with our adversaries Why do they not content themselves with that pure and sweet incense that Christ our great Priest offereth up Is it not sufficient Need any thing can any thing be added to the dignity and efficacy of that which Christ doth Can man or Angell do any thing more then God-man Are any more beloved of the Father then he But they pretend humility forsooth Sinfull men are unworthy to go to so worthy a Mediatour as the Sonne of God Therefore they have the Spirits of just men made perfect in heaven and the holy Angels to be their Mediatours Answ 1. Pretence of humility without warrant of Gods Word is high presumption c Hypocrisin hu militatis Oecu men in Col. 2. 19. He fitly stiled this kind of humility that stiled it a shew or a maske of humility counterfeit humility And d Vulgò dicitur qui divitem affectat thelo-dives qui sapientem thelo-sapiens Ergò hic thelo humilis dici tur i affectans humilitatem Aug. Epist ad Paulin he more finely that by a new coined word compounded part of Greeke and part of Latin called it Thelo-humilitatem will-humility voluntary or affected humility which is plaine and palpable arrogancy 2. Though Angels and Saints in heaven be more perfect then men on earth yet are they not worthy of such an office as to be Mediators Intercessors to God for others Or this office of Intercession is too much vilified or celestiall creatures too much dignified and deified by accounting them Intercessours in relation to God 3. Christ himselfe is deprived of one of his prime functions and honours by ascribing it to others or at least he hath co-partners and assistants joyned with him Which to do is intollerable presumption 4. The love of Christ to man is thereby exceedingly impeached For he was made like to his brethren that he might be a mercifull and faithfull High-Priest in things pertaining to Hebr 2. 17. God c. This end of his taking our nature on him is frustrated if we need other Mediatours to him To what end is he made man if there need other Mediatours to present us to him Wherein appeares he to be so mercifull if of our selves we may not have accesse to him who was made as our selves a Sonne of man The excellency necessity sufficiency and commodity of Well use and trust to Christs intercession Christs intercession being by the Gospell evidently revealed unto us it becommeth us to take such notice thereof and to be so instructed therein as we may in all our needs wisely use it and confidently trust to it They wisely use it that on all occasions when they approach to God have the eye of their soule fixed on Christ abiding in heaven at Gods right hand and making intercession thorow his mediation and intercession present their persons their prayers and all their holy services to God the Father Especially when Gods wrath is provoked and any signes thereof begin to manifest themselves then to humble their soules at the throne of grace then thorow the intercession of Christ to crave mercy and pardon That forme wherwith the Church useth to conclude her prayers thorow Iesus Christ our Lord is a worthy form and pertinent to the point in hand In using the words our heart ought to be lift up unto Christ and set on him sitting on Gods right hand Yea though such words be not alwayes expressed yet every petition made to God every thanks offered to him every thing wherein we have to do with God must in mind and heart be intended thorow the mediation and intercession of Christ We read of incense offered with the prayers of Saints the smoke whereof ascended before God This incense is the Rev. 8. 3 4. intercession of Christ They trust to his intercession who use no others but his and in the use of his rest confidently that they shal be accepted Thus may we thus must we do We may do it because what soever is in us to discourage us or any way to make us doubt of acceptance is so abundantly supplied in Christ as all matter of doubt and feare is thereby taken away We must do it for the honour of Christ for the comfort of our owne soules Christ is much honoured by the stedfast faith of his Saints Thereby the dignity of his person the merit of his sacrifice the favour of his Father the efficacy of his intercession and other his Divine excellencies are acknowledged The soule of him that in faith expecteth thorow Christ acceptation cannot but be much comforted This was it that much encouraged and comforted Stephen even then when his malicious enemies gnashed on him with their Act. 7. 54 55. teeth that he saw Iesus standing on the right hand of God That of Stephen was extraordinary For the heavens were actually really opened and Christ in that body wherein he was seene on earth and wherewith he ascended into heaven appeared unto him being in the highest heaven Stephens sight was also extraordinarily quickned and enabled distinctly to perceive and discerne a visible object so far off Such an extraordinary bodily sight of Christ is not to be expected of us Yet as truly and to as great comfort of soule may we with the spirituall eye of the soule the eye of faith see Christ sitting in heaven for us as it is said of Moses By faith he endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Thus to eye Christ with his incense his intercession before God in dangers and distresses in feares and perplexities while we live when we are giving up the ghost can not but bring unspeakeable comfort to the soule §. 40. Of the scope of the last clause of the 46 Verse NVMB. 16. 46. For there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun A Reason of the fore-mentioned direction given to Aaron is here rendred as is evident by this causall particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FOR. The reason is taken from the manifestation of Gods wrath and confirmed by an effect or evidence thereof a plague The reason may thus be framed When Gods wrath is gone out attonement must be made But now Gods wrath is gone out Therefore now an attonement must be made That Gods wrath was gone out he proves by the effect thereof which may be

Psal 69. 31. prayer pleasing and acceptable unto God 6. o Lev. 16. 13. Incense was a meanes to pacifie Gods wrath as here in the text So prayer By p Exo 32. 14. Moses his prayer was Gods anger appeased 7. q Numb 16. 40 Incense was to be offered up by Priests onely r Rev. 1. 6. So are all Saints made spirituall Priests and s 1 Pet 2. 5. thereby fitted to offer up the spirituall incense of prayer §. 38. Of incense typifying Christ THat Incense was a type of Christ may be collected by the Apostles specifying the a Heb. 9. 4. golden censer which was onely for incense among other Legall types of Christ The golden censer was a type by reason of the incense for which it was made much more therfore must the incense it selfe be How sundry types may be applied to Christ a type If it be demanded how the one and the other too could be a type of Christ I answer In regard of severall matters appertaining to Christ Some types set out one of Christs natures others another Some his person others his offices againe others speciall benefits that the Church reaped by Christ In a word the sundry and severall types under the Law set out sundry and severall excellencies that were in Christ and sundry and severall benefits that issue from him That the fitnesse of the types here mentioned may be the better discerned I will paralell and set out the incense censer fire and altar in such manner as with good probability may be applied to Christ 1. The Incense was made of the b Exo. 30. 34 38 best spices in the world The like perfume might not be made 1. Christ was c Cant. 5. 10. the chiefest of ten thousand d Psal 45. 2. Fairer then the children of men None like to him 2. Incense was to be e Exo. 30. 36. beaten very small 2. Christ was f Isa 53. 5. bruised for our iniquities 3. Incense was burnt with g Lev. 16. 12. hot coales of fire 3. Christs death was a tormenting death h Zac. 3 2. He was a brand pluckt out of the fire 4. Incense was put upon a i Lev. 16. 12. Censer The Censer was of k Heb. 9. 4. gold * Exo. 30. 1. c So was the altar upon which it was burnt 4. Christ l Heb 9. 14. thorow the eternall Spirit offered himselfe then which nothing more precious more durable A golden censer and altar is expresly applied to Christ Rev. 8. 3. 5. The Incense was brought m Lev. 16. 13. before the Lord into the most holy place 5. Christ is n Heb. 8. 1. in heaven before his Father even at his right hand 6. The smoake of the Incense like o Lev. 16. 13. a cloud covered the mercy-seate p Heb. 8. 1. Isa 4. 5. 6. Christs intercession so covereth the throne of grace in heaven as our sinnes are not seene 7. The sent of the Incense was very sweet Therfore it is called q Exo. 35. 28. sweet incense 7. r Ioh. 11. 42. 16. 23. Christs intercession is very pleasing to God ſ Isa 42. 1. Gods soule delighteth in him t Mat. 3. 17. He is his beloved Sonne in whom he is well pleased 8. u Lev. 16. 13 14. Incense was caried with bloud into the most holy place 8. x Heb. 9. 12. Christ with his owne bloud entred into the holy place Satisfaction and intercession go together 9. y Numb 16. 48. Offering incense was a meanes of attonement betwixt God mā 9. Christ is z 1 Ioh. 2. 2. the propitiation for our sinnes a Rom. 5. 10. By him we are reconciled to God and b 11. have received the attonement 10. c 2 Chro. 26. 18 Incense was to be offered up only by a Priest 10. d Heb. 8. 1. Christ was a true Priest So fit to make intercession No Angell no Saint can do it The type being thus applied to the truth in the particular circumstances thereof we will insist especially upon the maine substance here intended which is the true meanes whereby God is appeased here typified by Aarons offering incense namely Iesus Christ the beloved Sonne of God his making of intercession for sinners §. 39. Of the vertue of Christs intercession to appease God CHrist by his intercession is the onely true meanes of appeasing God All Legall rites instituted to this purpose were types hereof For the whole Law was a Col 2. 17. a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ He is that b Gen 3. 15. seed of the woman that should bruise the serpents head and so slay hatred c Gal. 3. 16. He is that Seed of Abraham in whom all nations should be blessed by reason of this attonement He the d Heb. 10. 10. propitiatory sacrifice he the e Eph. 5. 26. cleansing water he the incense he the f Ioh. 3. 14 15. Brasen Serpent by which such as are stung by sinne and Satan are cured To omit other types g Eph. 2. 14. He is our peace h 1 Ioh. 2. 2. He is the propitiation for our sinnes i 1 Tim. 2. 5. He is the Mediatour betwixt God and man k 2 Cor. 5. 18. God hath reconciled us to himselfe by Iesus Christ l Rom 3. 25. whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation Therefore m Hebr. 1. 3. when he had by himselfe purged our sinnes he sate downe on the right hand of the Majesty on high where n 7. 25. he ever liveth to make intercession for us On which ground the Apostle maketh this holy challenge o Rom. 8. 34. Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen againe and is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Thus we see how plentifull and evident the holy Scripture is in this principle of our Christian Faith p 1 Tim. 3. 16. Christ being true God q Mat. 17. 5. his Fathers beloved Sonne in whom he is well pleased and having r Heb. 9. 12. by his owne bloud obtained eternall redemption he hath a power and right to quench the fire of Gods wrath and to make peace betwixt God and man The dignity of his person and the all-sufficiency of his sacrifice have made way thereto The like can not justly be said of any other meanes whatsoever in heaven or in earth Wherefore ſ 1 Tim. 2 5. There is one one onely Mediatour betwixt God and man the man Christ Iesus §. 39. Of the vanity of meere creatures intercession SVrely they do more incense then appease God who to the heape of their other sinnes adde this high pitch of presumption Intercession of men or Angels Can mans invented incense offered up with strange fire pacifie Gods wrath For intercession of men

is rendred as a reason of the severity of his punishment Because David was the principall in the murther of Vriah f 2 Sam. 12. 9 10 his bloud is laid especially to Davids charge Thus the desolations that came upon Ierusalem after Manassehs time are said to be g 2 King 24. 3 for the sinnes of Manasseh who was the chiefe ringleader unto those abominations in which they continued untill the captivity h Ier 3. 6. 25. 3. notwithstanding that good Iosiah did what he could to make a thorow reformation Ob. i 2 Chro. 33. 12 13. Manasseh repented and had his sinne pardoned How then could he bring others bloud upon his owne head Answ Gods pardoning of sinne doth not extenuate sinne and his taking away bloud from a mans soule doth not imply that that man never brought bloud upon his soule but rather the contrary for that which is not on man cannot be taken away from him For the maine point it stands with justice and equity that they who do not onely sinne themselves but also draw others into sinne with them should beare the punishment of their owne and others sinnes For in those others he sinneth They are as his instruments If a man do not onely in his mind invent and plot sinne but also with his body and the parts thereof execute it he pulleth on himselfe the greater vengeance So doth he further heape up vengeance against his owne soule if he proceed on to draw others also to sinne These severall degrees manifest a more wretched disposition aggravate his sin the more the more incense Gods wrath and so cause greater vengeance Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Iudges of the earth All ye that are in place of eminency on whom many eyes are cast whose example many are ready to follow Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum Claud. de 4. Consul Honorij at whose word many are soone moved to do this or that be ye wary how you commit sinne your selves how you manifest any approbation of sinne how you give any countenance to sinne Abuse not your authority to command any sinne as a 2 Sam 13. 28. Absolom did Abuse not your wit to contrive and advise sinne as b 16. 21. Achitophel did Abuse not your eminency of place by making your selves an example and patterne in sinne as c 2 Chro. 33. 9. Manasseh did Abuse not that grace you have with a multitude to perswade them to sin as d Mat. 27. 20. the Priests and Elders of the Iewes did Abuse not that awe and dread wherein you have your inferiours under you to compell them to sinne as e Dan. 3. 1. c. Nebuchadnezzar did Abuse not that dependance which people have on you O Ministers by speaking well of evill by strengthening the wicked as f Ier. 23. 14. the false Prophets did By these and other like meanes whereby you draw others into sinne you pull the bloud of those others upon your owne soules Now to have not onely ones owne bloud but the bloud of others also to lie upon him is a most fearefull estate Thus he doth not onely as much as in him lieth draw many into eternall destruction but also implunge himselfe more deeply into hell fire For all those sinnes which others commit by his meanes are as so many heavy waights lying on his soule pressing it downe into everlasting torment This is not to excuse others that are so drawne as if they should go scot-free For in this text it is shewed that IIII. Accessaries make themselves liable to the judgement which falleth on the principall This point is handled in The Churches Conquest on Exo. 17. 13. § 59. FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of the principall points handled in The Plaister for the Plague on Numb Chap. 16. Ver. 44 45 46 47 48 49. A ACcessaries 115 123 Afflictions See Iudgements Afflictions effects of love and wrath 86 Afflictions their kinds 86 Anger See Wrath. Altars 35 Attonement what it imports 37 Attonement may be made after wrath is incensed 53 Attonement rejected by desperate ones 55 Attonement a penitents comfort 56 Attonement to be sought 57 Apostasie provoketh wrath 78 82 B BEleevers may die of the plague 21 Boldnesse caused by a good warrant 100 Bloud of men sacrificed 42 Burnt offerings what they set out 41 C CAlling in all things respected 40 Calling a good warrant 100 Calling requires duty with danger 101 Censers to what use 35 Charity of ancient Christians in time of plague 102 Charges to be observed in every branch 97 Christ typified by incense 59 Christ typified by sundry rites 59 Christs intercession appeaseth God 61 Circumstances warrantable to be observed 45 97 Circumstances much failed in by Papists and Protestants 46 Circumstances order obedience 94 Communion with wicked for judgements sake to be avoided 23 Conspiracy in sinne provokes wrath 76 80 D DEad not to he prayed for 108 Delay of succour dangerous 99 Desperate who reject reconciliation 55 Deferring repentance dangerous 50 Deferring succour dangerous 99 Evill See Sinne. F FAlling on face in prayer 32 Fire on the altar 35 Fiery and fierce is Gods wrath 66 73 Flaggs three 50 Folly to adde sinne to sinne 50 Foretelling judgements 11 G GOD revengeth the rebellious 28 God hath an absolute power over plagues 112 God hath many wayes to destroy 120 Gods wrath See Wrath. Godly See Saints Governours abuse of authoritie causeth wrath 75 80 Governours to be obeyed 93 H HVmility pretended is pride 62 Humane bloud sacrificed 42 I I Dolatry provokes wrath 74 79 IEHOVAH addeth terrour to wrath 74 Impenitency causeth wrath 78 81 Incense how made 36 Incense resembled to praier 58 Incense typisied Christ 57 Infidelity causeth wrath 77 81 Ingratitude causeth wrath 75 80 Ingratitude of world against Saints 27 Inhumanity causeth wrath 76 80 Inhumanity of Heathen in plague time 102 Intercession of Christ typified by incense 59 Intercession of Christ appeaseth wrath 61 Intercession of Christ is to be trusted to 63 64 Intercession of creatures vain 62 Iobs afflictiŏs of what kind 56 Iudgements See Afflictions See Wrath. Iudgements are consequents of sinne 5 Iudgements causes to be searched out 6 Iudgements why foretold 11 Iudgements how now foretold 13 Iudgments kept frō Saints 17 Iudgements how fall on Saints 18 Iudgements a motive to avoid communion with the wicked 23 Iudgements oft staid by mixture of Saints 26 Iudgements to utter ruine caused by stubbornenesse 29 Iudgements sudden very fearefull 30 Iudgements extremity caused by delay in pacifying Gods wrath 50 Iudgements oft terrible in the beginning 89 Iudgements to be observed 104 Iudgements generall effects of wrath 85 L LIfes benefits 108 Living to be preserved by all good means 107 Love of God peculiar to man 54 M MAgistrates See Governours Meanes warrantable to pacifie Gods wrath to be used 41 Meanes to preserve the living to be used 107 Meanes to be used in desperate cases 109

made for them and so they be the more encouraged By a sound and good argument from the lesse to the greater A minori Christs intercession a ground of encouragement Meritò mihi spes valida est in eo qui sedet ad dextram tuam te interpellat pro nobis alioquin desperarem Aug. Confess l. 11. c 43. it followeth that they who are well instructed in the articles of the Christian faith and answerably do believe in Christ cannot but have much comfort and encouragement in all their lawfull enterprises be they never so difficult or dangerous because they cannot be ignorant that Christ in whom they believe is on an higher hill then Moses here was even in heaven at Gods right hand making intercession for them Whom though he be invisible they may see with the eye of faith as Moses by faith saw him who is invisible He. 11 27. Now Christs intercession is more then al the praiers of all y e Saints though their spirits were all joined together in presenting one and the same petition to God For Christs intercession is that sweet incense that is in it selfe acceptable to God and that mixed with the prayers of the Saints makes them acceptable Rev. 8. 3 4. Let us therefore have our eye of faith fixed on Christ at Gods right hand in heaven holding up his hands continually and making intercession for us The eye of faith may in this kind work as much boldnesse as the sight of Stephens bodily eye did when he saw Iesus standing on the right hand of God Acts 7. 55. §. 35. Of Ioshuaes obedience EXOD. XVII X. So Ioshua did as Moses had said unto him and fought with Amalek * * * See §. 1. THe obedience of Ioshua to Moses his charge is first generally propounded and then distinctly exemplified both of them in the former part of the tenth verse which is so expresly set downe as there is no ambiguity at all For all the materiall words as a a a § 9. Moses b b b Ibid. Ioshua c c c § 2. fought d d d §. 4. Amalek have been before explaned Out of the two parts of this text naturally arise these two observations I. Obedience is to be yeelded to Governours Moses was at this time a Prince the supreme Governour over all Israel Ioshua therefore who was one of Israel and under his command did as Moses had said unto him II. They who are sent by lawfull authority unto a lawfull warre must go Moses his charge was a lawfull authority Warre for defence of a people against a malicious and injurious enemy is a lawfull warre Therefore Ioshua goeth He fought with Amalek §. 36. Of yeelding obedience to Governours See The Plaister for a Plague on Numb 16. 47. §. 53 54 55 56 I. OBedience is to be yeelded to Governours This is a principall branch of that Honour which is required in the fift commandement It is particularly and expresly enjoyned to all sorts of inferiours under authority as to a a a Eph 6. 5. Servants b b b 1. Children c c c 5. 22. Wives d d d Heb. 13. 7. People in relation to their Pastors e e e Act. 10. 7. Souldiers to their Generals and Captaines and f f f 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 Rom. 13. 1. Subjects in relation to supreme and subordinate Magistrates The Apostle much presseth this point and inforceth it by foure speciall arguments Rom. 13. 1 2 c. 1. The Authour of Government and Ordainer of Governours The powers that be are ordained of God Though it be true which the Prophet saith Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not namely in regard of particular persons set up and in regard of the manner of setting them up yet the Power it selfe and Government is of God 2. The good or benefit of Government He is the Minister of God to thee for good Governours therefore are advanced to their eminent places not simply for their owne honour but for the good of their subjects They who rightly and duly subject themselves procure good to themselves Such as are rebellious are injurious to themselves 3. The evill of sin in resisting Government Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God He doth therfore offend thereby not men onely but God also which is a sinne 4. The evill of punishment following thereon They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation A fearfull doome Take for instance the examples of Korah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. Vpon these and other like grounds Christians are exhorted to be subject for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. and for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2. 13. Both which intend one and the same thing For the conscience is subject to God alone so as that which is done for conscience sake is done for the Lords sake This for the generall of yeelding obedience to Governours may suffice For if these motives Gods ordinance Our owne good Avoiding sinne and The punishment of sinne be not sufficient what can be sufficient I hasten to the particular of souldiers obedience to their Governours charge about going to In militiâ disciplina non deest obedientia nequaquam contemnitur Ber. ad Mil. Temp. c. 4. warre which is here in speciall expressed and intended For among them discipline is most necessary Therefore in well ordered armies discipline is not wanting nor obedience despised §. 37. Of going to warre upon command II. * * * See §. 35. THey who are sent by lawfull authority unto lawfull warre must go What warre may be counted lawfull a a a § 18. Quando Imperator dicebat producite aciem ite contra illam gentem statim obtemperabant Aug. Enar in Psal 124. Vide Aug. contr Faust Manich. l. 22 c. 74. Itur reditur ad nu●um ejus qui praeest Bern ad Mil. Temp. cap. 4. hath beene shewed Lawfull authority is the commād of such as God hath set over us especially of the supreme Governour which command may come to us either immediately from the governour himself or mediately by such as he sets under himselfe over us For saith the Centurion I am a man under authority and have souldiers under me and I say to one go and he goeth and to another come and he commeth Mat. 8. 9. A proofe pertinent to the point in hand For what doth a Centurions bidding a souldier go imply but a sending of him to such or such a service in warre Ioshua 22. 2. for this commends the obedience of the Reubenites Gadites and halfe the Tribe of Manasseh Vriah so farre obeyed in this case as he lost his life 2 Sam. 11. 16 17. I say not this to justifie Davids or Ioabs command but to demonstrate the extent of Vriahs obedience Authority is given for this end to observe what may be best for the state wherein