Preached in L E N 1-. be{pared, then may the lrand; : b~t both are abfolutdy nece!I:1ry ; and a maimed and lame elbte it is, wheree1thens wannng. The Elbte of Ifrael ( 1n the fevenIudg.l 7 . 6 • tecnth of the J11 dges) without aCwzfl 6over11orwprovedavery malfe ofconfuGon• The very fame Efiate (in tlle fecond of Chron. Chap. X V.) Szne facerdote docente, •Chron.Jf.J; no lelfe out offrame. Miferable firfi, ~~they lacke Io[11a, and be as lheepe \noting Numb.,,. , 7 ; . that Shepherd. And mlfe1able agame, 1~ they Ltcke I E • u s, and be as llieepe l\1,"h. 9 . 36 • · wamiag that Shepherd. Mofes 1s needfull,,m the want of.\vater,tof!r:ke the.rocke for us, and to procure us fupply ofbod1ly rellefe. Aaron1s no lelfe: For hem;1ke Exod. 1 ;. 9 • mannerreacheth to every one food ofanother ktnde (which we m.ay 'Yorfe bewtth- "t)evcn thebread of life, andwaterout ofthe fPmtr~all Rocke, wh1c.h ts CH R. x s t Iohn6. 4 s. 51 ; ~~ sus. Mofes wene~d, to fee our forces led again!l: Jmaleck, forfafegard ~fthat. ~;;,~~i':.:: little we hold here iri this life : and A~ron no lelfe, to preferve our free-hold mthe Ephcr.•.u . everlafiing life; For the great and mightie..K''~'"~""P"' the legions '?four finnes, the very forces ofthe Prince of darknelfe are overrhrowne by the fpmtuall weapons of t.Aamlswarfare. UUofes may not be fpared from fitting and deciding the caufes which are brouoht before him. No more may Aaron, whofeVrimgivethanfwer, in doubts no le''tfe important; and who not onely with his Vrim and Thttmmim, giveth eotmfell, but by his incenfe and (acrijice obtaineth good fumjfe for all our counfels. In aword: If c..Mofer rodbe requilite to fling anddwoure the wicked; t.Aaron's isalfo, to rmivethe good, and to make them toJrt~Efijie. If Mo{es hand want, with the fword to make us a way : t.Aaron's handwants too, with the key to give us an entrance. And thus much will I fay.for A•ron (fortheDive/lha.th now – left to dijjrete about Mofes hody,;md bendeth a!l agamf! h1m) that, the very firll: note of difference in all the Bible, to know G o o s people by, 1s, that as Cain and his race I . begun at theCitie-waUs firft, and let Religion (as it might) comeafter, any it skilled not what : So the pofteritie of Seth (the people of Go o ) begunne at the Church Gen. 4 .,,;. (Et ciJ!ptmn eft invoc•ri) at t~1e worihip of Go o and His Tabernacle;_ as the point ofprincipallnecellinemthmaccoum, and (asC HR. r s ·r reckoned It) Vnumne- . "Jfarium. And truely, 1fwe be not Popullu, a people, but Popitlth Truu, Go o's Luke 10 4 ; . people,fweewillfoell:eemeit too. ~ _For, as for Iufticeand Law and execution of them both, T<ltterfem ommpopulo, 1t1s every where to be had,even among the very Pfat. 7 6,1; HC4t.henaod Turkesrhem{e!v, s. Sois not Go o's tmthand Religion,and rhe way ·· ofrighreoufnelfe. No: Notzu in Iud,eJ, Dezu, (faith the Prophet in the la£! Pfalme) that is only to be had in the church,and No/'Jotaliter fecitomni populo, He hath not dealt fo with everypeople. Every peoplehave not knoJ'vledgt of Hr5 Larves. So that,ifthe Governour be not meerely l'aJior agrefti!, a rural! lhepherd, fuch as are in the fields; and the people of G o o, in his eyes, no better than Pecoracampi; fo that, if hee keepe them one from goring another with their homes, and one trom eating up the others locke of hey, all is well and noniore to be cared for of Gallio : but, that he beliketheg-reAt shepiJerd, thegood shepheKd, the Prince of Shepherds, whowas Pa– florammaritm ~as Samt Peter calleth Hirrt) aShepherdoffor;les 3 to fee alfo that they 1 Pcr.•.•f; be m good plight, tha~ theybeledin the way oftrillh. It will eafily be yedded to; that permanumMo(ts, IS rio full point, but rieedeth [and Aaron] to be joyned to it. 0flo(es himfelfc faw this, and therefore (in the fourth of Exodus) when he had Exod. 1 . x.j; dtverstimes lhiftedoffthis {ale leading, while Goo f!oodlhllupon Ecce mittam tc; Atlafi, when Go o came further and f-aid, Ecce Aaron fratertrtus, mittamer~m ~cum,that contented him, and then he qnderrookeit; as knowing thcfe were like " 1 •ds, maimed, the one withoutthe other ; but that, Mo{Cf and Aaronmake a comp eat Governmenr, · 'f~ ~nd whatlhou!d1fay mote~ They behands,anci thebody decdeth themboth: 'Z e_hands and they need each other. Mofes needeth Aaron : For, Mofes hAnds are ._eavte and need a lby: andAaron it is, that keepeth them jhddie, by cominuall phuttmg 1the people in remembrance, that they befrtbjeEf to p-rincipalities; by winning t atatt lCtrhandsb H. · 11 J · · h. 1 ,r, c: theh rei l1i · Y' tscommua aroppmgHtsWorduponth~m,w ~c1Mo1 cs,,or a ne eof thctr hea>rs,1sfatne to yeeld ro. By ftrerigthemng mamelyUl1o{es B b ·4 Debita
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