ebeE¡ife te the Ça.tad.toP. G1rap,6. S xâ praftifeofZimri Prince of the faradicof the Simeonites,v.6. in bringing Ceskea M.adianin/6 woman.intohis tert,in the fight ofMofes,and the wholecongregation.Thereforebecau(e they didnot hinderthem from committing thisfaft , as theymight, beeingin place ofgouernment, butdid partake with them in the fin they arc fiat punifhed,& that wore feuerely:for a thou- fandofthemwerehanged vp the fame day,v.4. the rep ofthe people,to themember of 23 thoufand,werc Hain by the (word,, at thecommandementofGod.v.y. to which Paul had an eye, co when he laid , that therefell inone day 23thossfand. s .Cor. r o. 8. meaningofthe common fort , excluding thole that were han- gedvp:lor in all there were 24 thoufand.Nurn, 25.9.Thus the coutrarictie whichken-intobe betwixt thole two places,tnay be better accorded, then to fay(as time eloe)that thepen.tnen, or (cribes, failed in copying out the bookes. Or(as others)that itvrasáperra ¡.cd(MIttoVtxorinPaul:or asothers, that Paul is not contrarie toMoles , (icing that if there were 24 thouland, (as Mofes faith,) therewere 2; thouGnd : for there is no reafon why the Apoflle finned vfe the lefí'c number rather then the Co grcatcr,(cxccpt that which I hauelaid) confidering the grea- ter is as round a number as the Idle. O&icti. VI. David finned inntambring the people , and they werepanifhed for his finne : Achan finned, and the peo- ple fell flaine before the menofAi : therefore euery man doth 5 not bearehis owne entire burden. The like may be lard of the childrenofthe Sodomits,and of the Ertl borneof the Egypti- ans, who bare theburden of their parents (inne. Ant. The people were punifhcd for their owne fumes : and fo was Da- uid,albeit not in his ownc,but in their pc:fons : for Godpuni- ,o (bedhim inhis kind , in deffroying the people with that feare- full plague , in whole great multitude he had gloried fo much. Indcede their punifhment was occafioned by his fïnne: but caufed by their owne : for no man , though neuer fo holy, is without fume , and therefore none but deferue punif hment: 5 nay , it is Gods mercie, that weare not confamed. Lam.3.,a. And albeit all the infants peri{hed inthe Deluge, and in the ouerthrowof Sodome and Gomorrha, which could neither i- I mitate,nor approoue the aílions oftheir forefathers : yet their' death was delerued. For though infants be truly called tnno- cexts, in regard ofaf}uall finne : yet they are not iirnocèntsin I i i i t regard
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