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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86660	The happiness of a people in the wisdome of their rulers directing and in the obedience of their brethren attending unto what Israel ougho [sic] to do recommended in a sermon before the Honourable Governour and Council, and the respected Deputies of Mattachusets [sic] colony in New-England. : Preached at Boston, May 3d, 1676, being the day of election there. / By William Hubbard ...	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.	1676 (1676)	Wing H3209; ESTC W12661	72,888	77

given leave The Lord fill you all with the Spirit of Wisdome and Counsell and make you as the men of his right hand whome he hath made strong for himself and grant you may be found like David who being chosen to be the Shepard of Gods Israel fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hand which is the Prayer of Your humble Servant W. H. SOme Faults have escaped in the Press which the Reader is desired to correct by reading In p. 4. l. 28. head for Decades l. 29. Decades for heads p. 5. l. 19. best for bear p. 7. l. 30. several for general p 9. l. 6. read residence p 17. l. 23. immersed for emersed p. 18. l. 16. badges for bodyes p. 19. l. 9 20. l. 36. Apologue for Apologus p 27. l. 25. leave out here p. 22. l. 23. our worst for or worse l 21. vigor for rigor l. 23. peccatur for peccat p 33. l. 13 Isacks for Israels p. 37. l. 26. fifth for first p. 39. l. 14. for hast hate p. 40. l. 13 tardus for territus p. 43. l. 27. booty for body p. 45. l. 18. rights for rites l. 32 wars for way The like errors in spelling or pointing may be helped by them that read as where each is printed for such p. 56. l. 36. 1 Chron. 12.32 Of the Children of Issachar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do the heads of them were two hundred and all their Brethren were at their Commandment IF ever those words of Wisdome Proverbs 8.15 By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice were true of any of the Kings and Princes of the Earth they were true of David who in his publick as well as private capacity approved himself a Man after Gods own heart leaving an unimitable patern to the Kings of all succeeding ages both of piety in obeying God and of wisdome and justice in ruling over men as if the Book wherein Samuel wrote the manner of the Kingdome had been perfectly transcribed in his life and Government It was not undeservedly therefore that after so large an edition of the whole Hystory of the Acts and Reign of David in the two first Books of the Kings such a considerable addition should be made to that part of the Hystory which concerned his entrance upon his Kingdome in this twelfth Chapter of the first book of the Chronicles where we have the triumphant manner thereof at large described being attended therein with a great Host as it is called ver 22. like the Host of God from which verse to the end of this Chapter it is very remarkable how the Penman of this sacred Chronicle like some Divine Herauld is Marshalling the respective bands of the said Host under the particular Banners of their several Tribes assigning unto each some distinct Character as a special badg of honour according as they best deserved either for the skilfulness of their Captains and Leaders the number and valour of their followers willingness or readiness in both to promote the design in hand which was the turning the Kingdome of Saul unto David Amongst the rest of the Tribes as they are here ranked in this Chapter special notice is taken of the Tribe of Issachar of which Tribe although no great matter had been foretold in the Prophetical Benediction either of Jacob or Moses yet is there here in the Text a very signal testimony given both to their piety and prudence to their unity and magnanimity any of which cannot be conceived but to tend more then a little to the successful carrying on that great affair which now they had in hand so as at that time what Solomon saith of his vertuous Woman Prov. 31.29 might very fitly have been said of the Tribe of Issachar many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all In the words of the Text there are four things very obvious to the view of the observant Reader 1. The Distribution of the whole Tribe into its integral parts or constituent Members as to their political order viz. the Heads and the Brethren of which two united together consisted the body of the Tribe as is here implyed 2. The qualification of each part fitly disposing them to a regular performance of the duty incumbent on either for the good of the whole 1. Wisdome in those that were the Heads described both by its specification understanding of the times 2. By its application to know what Israel ought to do 2. Willingness in the Brethren to attend the advice and counsel of their Leaders they were at their Commandment 3. The regular and orderly proceeding of each part the which is necessarily implyed in the words that when the heads of the Tribe had counselled and determined what was needful to be done the Brethren were ready to put their resolves in Execution It was not in Issachar as Anacharsis the Philosopher sometimes complained of the tumultuous proceedings in the popular Common-wealth at Athens that wise and grave men deliberated on things but fools and mad men resolved thereof but at this time in Issachar the body of the people were ready to put in execution what those who had understanding in the times judged needful to be done 4. The entire unity of the Tribe amongst themselves declaring the unanimous consent of the whole in that it is said all their Brethren were at their Commandment sc at the Commandment of the two hundred which were the Heads which doth justly advance the gallantry of the Action of the tribe of Issachar in this affair above that of any of the rest of the Tribes by the same proportion by which our Saviour preferred the bounty of the poor Widow above all the rest of the Contributers for as she put into the Treasury all which she had so doth this Tribe send all their whole Stock to increase the Host of David which if they were not so many thousands as some of the other Tribes might send yet seeing there were none that staid behind it was for want of number but not of good-will if they did not equal or exceed the rest of the tribes I shall only paraphrase a little upon the words to give the sense and meaning of them before I commend any thing from thence to our present consideration Of the Children of Issachar these were the descendants of the fifth Son of Jacob by his Wife Leah whose Lot as it seems to have fallen in one of the richest and most fruitful soiles of the whole Land of Canaan so was it more likely as was foretold in Jacobs blessing to dispose the Inhabitants by reason of the robustickness of their body an ordinary effect of the fertility of of any soyle to couch down under a double burden of tribute then by any valour of their minds to shake off the servile yoke It may then not unseasonably here be demanded how it should come