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Gopate without beginnings {ohis mercies being without end oh commanded Myfe tofttikea Rockeadioyning with-his rodsandthe wavers ilued out in agrea abundance, withwhich-boththemfeluésandcheit:.catrell were fatisfied, Neverthel: fle be caule God pereciued akinde of difidence bothin\A4o/es and danonsar this place; thetefore te per hee tefufed toaduenture the Armyof 2/rae/againft.a Nations'which being, ouercom e, gaue but paflage to inuade other's; and which by:reafon ofthe {eate of their mountainous Countre y, could not but have endangered, or(atleat) greatly enfeebled the ftrengthofJ/rael,and rendred themlefle able,if not altogether powerleffe,to haue con- mitted ncitherof them to.cnterthe Latid promiled,wikereto perc Hance their worle ly te fires mightinuite them.\ Burit pleafedhimroendthortauailes.of -4aron anthe Mos Ie quered the reft. 2333+ taine Hor,being the next arid.foureand thirtieth Station, At which Mountain of Har, Aaron was defpoyléd ofthe garmentsiefhis Prietehodd, and the famepuran Eleaser his fonnesas:God had. comphanded. Wehichdone, Mio. ses. and JA tz A Z)A-n! defcen- ded the Mountaine ; buriG.O.D receined daron on the sop thereog; and he was no more1 cae Mountaine called Hor, otherwife AZoferasasinDeuterouomy 10.V¢er/e 6. thole Horitestooke nashe,which theddumeans had formerlyvan quifhed.Some thereare which make A4o/era, which wasithe.feauen,and twentieth Manfion:;)and Afofera which they Num, 33. write J40ferothfor diff rence,whichwas the foure andthirtieth Manfion,and is alfocal led Hor,to betwo diftint places: becaufe Azofes in palling from Ca lesbarne cowards E Sfiongaber,incamped at: Aofera; after hée departed from Heé/mowa, and before he cameto Benigacans Andthis Adofera, whichisalfocalled Hor; he came vato after he left Cade, where Miriam, Atofes filter dyed;thefirftbeing the feauen and twentiet! ,andthe fecond bans ; being the foureand thirtiesh Manfion: Bur for Horwhichisal focalled: AZo/era, iteft fhould,ay haue beene written, Hor iuxta Mofera s Horneere Mofera : for it is but one roote.ofa Mountainé; diuided into diners tops;as Sivai and Horeb ave: Wheréofthe Wek part atJescalleth Alofera, and the Eaft part Hered. By the. Weft pare .azo/es encamped, as kes paft towards the Xed Sea; onhis left-hand: by the Eaft part, as:hee went backe againe North-wardstowatds Azfoab:aéin the defcription of, Mofeshis paffage through Araeia, the Readermay perceiue. Nowit was from Cades,before they.cameto Hor,becaule Ear belongedto Edom, that Mo(es fent meflengers tothe Prince of idumea, praying him that he might paffe with the people of //rae/ throughhis Berritory into the Land ofCawaan,which bordered :it« Fo! it was the neereft way of allothet from the City ofKadefh; where adofes then encamped;3 Whereas otherwifetaking hisioutney byxhe Riuers of -Zared, edrnon, . and sordan,hee might haue runne into many hazards in the paflage ofthofe Riuers, the farre way about, andthe many powerfull Kings, which commanded in thofe Regions. Nowthe better to perfivadethe Prince of 7damea hereunto, Azo/es remembredhim, that hee wasof the famerace andfamily with //rael: calling himby the nameof brother, becaufe both of Edomites and dfraelites were the fonnes. of one father,to. wit, //aac ,inferring thereby heehad more'reafon to fauourand refpect them, than hee had toaffift the Cava f gainft whom E/aw his Ancefter had made watre,and driven outthe Horites(who were? their ancientraces de(cended ofChamiourofthe Deut.2.4, Region of Seir,callingit by his owe ? name Edom, or Edumea. Healfo makinga (hort repetition of Gods. bleffings, beftowr onthem; and ofhisipurpofes,and promifes; aflured Edom, or the King thercof,thachet wouldno way,offend his people; or watte his Countrey,but that hee wouldreftraine by Army within the boundsof the Common, and Kings high wayes, paying money *, whatfocuer hewfed, yea, euenfor rhe water, which.t hemfelues or their Cattell dtinke, For, Mofes wascom manded by God, not to prouokethe. children, of £/4# the King of Edumea knowing the ftrength of his owne Cor nirey, the fame.being! Canaan .tampard with high and tharpe mountai nes.: and withall fufpecting, asa wife man,thar6o. o-ftrangers beingonce entred his Countrey,it wouldreft 18 Num,10.20 &ir- um tiw.refoluedlyrefuted them paflage, anddeliuered this anf{wer t neers : That,if they attempted to enter that way, he would.take them for cnc and tchitchembyal lpoffiblemeanes,.And hot knowing whether fuch a deniall mg {atistie or‘exa{perateyhee gathered the ftrength of his Countrey together, and fhe? himfelf e pre jto.defend their paflage. For, asit is written ; Then Edom came 4 2 (tO Wit, d4o/es) with much people, and witha mighty power. WVher epo® / sad 12, that the endof hisenterprife was notthe conquef t of Seir or Edits oa deritandin ethePromile greateld was that of Canaan: like vnto himfel fe who was of nature tof aayman,andthe skilfulleft man of warre thatthe world hee of the Hyforie ofthe World, 10 §. VI, Oftheir compafsing Idumea, and tranelling to tron, the border of Atoab, ase Ae Etherefore leaning the way of Idumea,turned himfelfe towards the Eaft, and matched towards the Deferts of Atozb. Which when Arad King. of the Czzaanites vnder{tood, and that 270/és had blanched the way of idumea;and knowing thatit was Cazaanm,and not Edom,which 7/rael aimed athe thoughtit fafeftratherto finde his enemies in his neighbours Countrey, than to be found by them in his owne': which hemight haue done witha farre greater hope of victory, had Azofes beene enforft firkt to though victorious,greatly haueleffened his numbers: Bur although it fell out otherwile than Carad hoped for, yet being refolued to maketriall, what courage the raelites brought with them out of 20 Egypt, before they came neeterhis ownchome; leading the ftrength the édge of the Defert,he fet vpon fomepart of the Army; which,f of his Nation to cupieda great {pace,and for the many heards ofCattell that they or the multitude ocdraue with them,could notencampe foneere together, butthat fome quarteror other was euermore fubie& to urptife.: By which aduantage hauemade his way by the Sword through /dameasand thereby , and in thathis attempts were then perchance vnexpecte d, he {lew fome few ofthe Iftaelites;and carried with him many prifoners. Nowitis very probable, that it was this Canaanite, or his Predecefl our, which ioyw to thofé miutinons Yraelites, Nu 11,14.452 which without dire@ion from God by Mofes, would haue entred Casaan from Cadefbane. Forit feemeth thatthe greareft numberof that Army wereof the Canaanites, be~ ned his forces with the Amalekites,and gale an ouerthro 36 caufein the firftof Deuteronomy, 44. the Amorites arenamedalone without the Amalen sites, andare {aid to hauebeaten the d/raelites atthartim e, Andthis Arad, if hé-werethe sime that had a victory ouer- #fr'ael; neete Cadesbarne 5 or if it were his Predece our that then'preuailed, this manfinding that 44o/es was retutned waytowards Camaanz,andthat the South part of Camaan'wafrom the Red Seaz.and in his s danger'of being conquerednor knowing of AZo/és purpofe firkttobe inuaded, and ia to comipafle Atoab, determi= ned while hewas yer inthe Defert, torrie the quarrell.: And whereas it followeth in the third verfeof the twelfth.C hapter of Wambers, thatthe sracltes veterly deftvoyed the Canaanites ard their Cities; they are much miftaken that thinke,that this deftiuion was prefently perfolmed by the //rzelites. Butitis tobe d, ‘to haue beerie done in 40 the future, to. wit; in thetirne of Zofva.' Por had Mofesvnderftoo at thistime enitred Cakaan in the purfuirof Arzd, he would nothaiie fallen backe againeinto and -haue' fetcht a wearifome and needlefle compafle, the Deferts of Zivand Morb; by the Rivers of Zared and Marnin, Neitheris theirconieéture to be valued at anything, whichaffi rme, that Ayadidid not inhabite any part ofCamaatit felfe, butthat his Territory Mountainé Hor, For Horand Zin Cades werethe South lay without it, and ‘néere ‘the magn, Andie was inthe Southof the Land ofCanaam,thatbordersof Edom,and not ofCa- Nam,3 740 Arad dwelt: Which South part Of Camara was the North part'of Edom. Againe, Horma (for fo fatre the sraelites after their victory purfited the Camsénipes) ig feated in the South ofJudes. Thereisalfoa City ofthat namein' simeon: Butthethi s no fuch place tothe South of Edom, And were there no otherargument; bur the mutiny which followedprefenrly after the repetition of this victory, it were enoughto proue, waat the fame was obtained in the future, and in Jo/wa histime, and not at the inftanc of Arads affault. For had the Ifraclites arthis time fackt the ‘Cities of Arad, they would notthe nextday haue complained for want of water and great Cities, thercis al{Owaterand bread. Butit wasinthe bread, For where there are time of Zo/aa; that the LraeHates tooke theit reuenee; and afterthey had patt'ferda n's Tofwa then gouerning them, who in the twelfth Chapterandfoureteenth'Verfes qameth this Arad by thename ofhis C2 City |