A Spiritual Antidote Against Sinful Contagion, Epigraphs
LEvit. 26. 14. But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these Commandments.
Vers. 15. And if you shall despise my Statutes, or if your Soul abhor my Judgments, so that you will not do all my Commandments, but that ye break my Covenant.
V. 21. And if ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more Plagues upon you, according to your sins.
V. 23. And if ye will not be reformed by these things, but will walk contrary unto me:
V. 25. I will bring a Sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my Covenant: And when ye are gathered together within your Cities, I will send the Pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Deut. 28. 15. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his Commandments and Statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
V. 21. The Lord shall make Pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the Land, whither thou goest to possess it.
Amos 4. 6. And also I have given you cleanness of Teeth in all your Cities, and want of Bread in all your places: Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
V. 7. And I also have withholden the Rain from you, when there were yet three moneths to the Harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one City, and caused it not to rain upon another City: One piece was rained upon; and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered.
V. 8. So two or three Cities wandered to one City to drink Water, but they were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
V. 9. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew, when your Gardens, and your Vineyards, and your Fig-trees, and your Olive-trees encreased, the Palmer-worm devoured them: Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
V. 10. I have sent among you the Pestilence after the manner of Egypt; your young men have I slain with the Sword, and have taken away your Horses; and I have made the stink of your Camps to come up into your Nostrils: Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Jere. 24. 10. I will send the Sword, the Famine, and the Pestilence among them, till they be consumed from off the Land that I gave to them, and to their Fathers.
Jere. 14. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities testifie against us, do thou it for thy Names sake: For our back-slidings are many, we have sinned against thee.
V. 12. When they fast I will not hear their cry, and when they offer burnt-offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them, but I will consume them by the Sword, and by the Famine, and by the Pestilence.
2 Sam. 24. 15. So the Lord sent a Pestilence upon Israel, from the Morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people, even from Dan to Beer-sheba, Seventy thousand men.
Exod. 9. 15. For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with the Pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the Earth.
Numb. 25. 1. And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the Daughters of Moab.
V. 8. And he went after the Man of Israel into the Tent, and thrust both of them through; the Man of Israel, and the Woman through her Belly. So the Plague was staid from the Children of Israel.
V. 9. And those that died in the Plague were Twenty and four thousand.
Ezek. 33. 26. Ye stand upon your Sword, ye work abomination; and ye defile every one his neighbors wife: And shall ye possess the Land?
V. 27. Say you thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in Wastes shall fall by the Sword; and him that is in the open Field, will I give to the Beasts to be devoured; and they that be in the Forts and the Caves, shall die of the Pestilence.
Psal. 106. 28. They joyned themselves also unto Baal-Peor, and are the Sacrifices of the dead.
V. 29. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the Plague brake in upon them.
Numb. 11 1. And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; and the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost part of the Camp.
V. 33. And while the Flesh was yet between their Teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great Plague.
Numb. 14. 27. How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the Children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
V. 37. Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the Land, died of the Plague before the Lord.
Ezek. 5. 11. Wherefore as I live, saith the Lord God, surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I have any pitty.
V. 12. A third part of thee shall die with the Pestilence, and with the Famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee, and a third part shall fall by the Sword round about thee: And I will scatter a third part into all the Winds, and I will draw out a Sword after them.
V. 13. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them; and I will be comforted, and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
1 Cor. 11. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lords Body.
V. 30. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Numb. 16. 42. And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered together against Moses, and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tabernacle of the Congregation; and behold, the Cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
V. 43. And Moses and Aaron came before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
V. 47. And Aaron took as Moses had commanded, and ran into the midst of the Congregation; and behold, the Plague was begun among the people: And he put on Incense, and made an atonement for the people.
V. 48. And he stood between the dead and the living, and the Plague was staid.
V. 49. Now they that died in the Plague, were Fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
V. 50. And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Plague was staid.
Jere. 29. 17. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, behold, I will send them the Sword, the Famine, and the Pestilence. And will make them like vile Figs that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
V. 18. And I will persecute them with the Sword, with the Famine, and with the Pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the Kingdoms of the Earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach among all the Nations whither have driven them.
V. 19. Because they have not hearkned to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent by my servants the Prophets, rising up early and sending them, but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.
Exod. 5. 3. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us, let us go we pray thee, three days journey into the Desert, and Sacrifice unto the Lord our God, least he fall upon us with Pestilence, or with the Sword.