§. 50. Of the duties to be done when a plague is begun. A Plague being an effect of Gods wrath, for staying the plague meanes for pacifying Gods wrath must be used. So did David. He humbled himselfe, confessed his sinne, and that with a penitent heart, and offered sacrifice to God. Apply to this judgement of a plague the directions § 4, 5, 6, 10. be∣fore given. And because Moses giveth here a direction when this plague begun, be carefull betimes, even at the beginning of a plague to seeke to asswage Gods anger. Hereof also § 30. before. And that ye may be the more conscio∣nable herein, know that plagues come not by chance, come not by any ordinary course and meanes. They come from Gods wrath. Let the directions therefore before given for pacifying Gods wrath be rather observed, then any physicall directions. I denie not but that they are lawfull, needfull, usefull. But this which I speake of, is more law∣full, needfull, and usefull. All other without this is nothing at all. In all diseases Gods helpe is especially to be sought. It was Asa his fault, that 2 Chro. 16. 12 In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physitians. If in all diseases, most of all in this that is such an immediate effect of Gods wrath, The Lord is to be sought unto. And so much the rather, because the plague (among other evidences of Gods wrath) is a most fearefull one, as §. 71. 72. hereafter is shewed. 0