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cause_n	body_n	soul_n	world_n	1,708	5	4.6899	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17304	Israels fast. Or, a meditation vpon the seuenth chapter of Ioshuah a faire precedent for these times. By H.B. rector of S. Mathews Fryday-Street.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4147; ESTC S106964	36,749	58

of whose oary bowels the King of England may dig richer Mettalls then the King of Spaine can out of all his Indies The King of Englands Subiects will for loue sweat his Maiesty more golde then all the King of Spaines poore slaues can for feare digge out of the bowels of their senseles mother-earth this done I say what can be reciprocally desired either of the Subjects by the King or of the King by his Subjects that shall not haue a full confluence each striving to satisfie other with all wished contentments Gods cause being first acquitted and our Mother-Church of England asserted to her owne auncient Catholicke Tenants then Ioshua and the Elders and all Israel with them shall from their celestiall Father and their spirituall Mother receiue such a blessing as shall bee admired of all their friendes envied of all their enemies And you Lady Metropolis of Israel the beloued City the darling Mount Sion when you send your Agent-Burgesses to joyne with Israels great assembly as you looke to haue a part in the blessing thereof Be perswaded to sanctifie yourselues and reforme your City-Achans Search them out you need not lanthornes for it Your loue and liberality to the Gospell and to the Ministery thereof both at home and abroad cannot be paraleld by any Church in any age Onely your Achans as so many cloudes eclipse the glory and otherwise the vnstained beauty thereof A little leauen yee know leaveneth the whole lumpe Purge it out therefore that yee may be altogether a new lumpe This we heartily desire even your perfection Now then O Israel you haue had your fast yee are washed yee are sanctified yee are justified from your owne particular sinnes by your faith testified by your repentance and the trueth of your repentance testified by your reformation now you are cleare and cleane but not all In the next place yee are to finde out the Achans that trouble Israel least yee bee all wrapped in Achans sinne So did Ioshua and the Elders of Israel after their owne humiliation after their sanctification of the people the very next morning early they goe about to finde out the Troubler of Israel First note Ioshua's diligence and vigilancie with the Elders and people of Israel to execute justice They rose early in the morning And good reason Delay is dangerous in such cases it might haue hastened many bad consequences for now the newly fleshed Canaanites might haue wonne time to confederate and bande against Israel while Gods displeasure was not remoued Besides delay and neglect in doing justice brings the Iudges within the compasse of Accessaries For as hee that prevents not a sinne in another when hee may commits it so hee that punisheth it not when hee may and ought defends it and makes it more his own But prudent and provident Ioshua with the Elders of Israel and the people prevent the daunger of delay they rise early in the morning But how doe they goe about the scruting to finde out the troubler of Israel Achan with his Babylonish garment and wedges were lurking in the Tent among the thousands of Israel Hee had conveyed his Sacriledge and theft so cleanly by his dissimulation as no man was privy to it to accuse him Who then shall finde him out yes the Lord takes this taske vpon him And where the Lord makes the search what place for lurking If wee haue forforgotten the name of our God and holden vp our hands to any strange God Shall not God search this out for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart saith David But by what meanes doth God search out Achan By a strange and admirable meanes even by lot a thing of it selfe of a casuall and contingent nature yet which the all disposing God canne commaund to produce the most certaine effects of his owne will Thus by lot hee elected Saul for King among all the Tribes of Israel from among all the families of Beniamin after that Samuel had already by Gods assignement annointed him Thus by lot was Ionathan Sauls son found out for but tasting a little honey Yea God canne make the fowles of the ayre to reveale the most hidden sinne Well Ioshua following the Lords direction findes out Achan by lot This done note Ioshuah's behauiour to Achan vers 19. My Sonne giue I pray thee glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession vnto him and tell me now what thou hast done hide it not from mee Ioshua heere like a tender-hearted Father vseth a Fatherly compellation to Achan My Sonne Hee breakes not out into suddaine anger and passion now to adde more terrour to Achans conscience or to shew the greatnes of his owne authority For what neede authority and power bee armed with impotent hasty passion And it is the gentle Sun-beame not the rough winde that causeth the offender to lay aside the cloake of dissimulation It is the goates milke of mild mercy not the hard stroake of the hammer that dissolues the adamantine heart It is the warme fire of louing intreaty not the frost of a frowning brow that causeth the ycie obdurate conscience to melt drop into teares It was the soft still voyce not the whirlewind earth-quake that caused Elias to couer his face and his mouth My son was the seemeliest rack for Ioshua to vse whereby gently to draw confession from Achan For Ioshua was Pater Patriae the Father of Israel Gods people the affection whereof he puts not off while now he puts on the office of Iudge Mercy and truth preserue the King saith Salomon and his throne is vpholden by mercy mercy truth are the two supporters of the Kings Armes The herb Basil a proper embleme for a Prince gētly stroakt on the hād yeelds a pleasāt smel but crusht vpō it vnsavory My Son saith Ioshua What then Giue I pray thee glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession vnto him c. The first thing that Ioshua seekes is the glory of the Lord God of Israel How By Achans confession How should that redound to Gods glory Yes three wayes in Achan first by shewing the Lord to bee just and true in finding him out thus miraculously by lot while Achan confessed himselfe to bee the man thus divinely pointed out Secondly by a faithfull humble and penitent confession of his sinne against God and his people to the end God might glorify his mercy in pardoning his soule though his justice in punishing his body Thirdly that Gods act in Israels discomfiture might appeare to all the world to be vpon iust cause Nor doth Ioshua heere remit Achan to make his private auricular confession to the Priest For so Achans sinne had never come to light but had gone close mantled vnder the stole and seale of confession So had God lost his glory two wayes First by Achans private confession in stead of a publick Secondly by taking his absolution from a Priest which none can giue but God only Therefore saith