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A39599 The trovblers trovbled, or, Achan condemned and execvted. a sermon preached before sundry of the honourable House of Commons at Westminster, April 4, 1641. / By Samuel Fairecloth, pastor of the congregation of Ketton in Suffolke. Faireclough, Samuel, 1594-1677. 1641 (1641) Wing F109; ESTC R430 34,697 60

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of Israel Thou hast troubled us The persons by this one Achan troubled are the whole congregation of the Children of Israel as is cleare from the 1 verse to the 7. of this chap. not only Achans owne Family Sons and Daughters but Ioshus and the people are troubled by it whence observe Doct. 2 That a whole nation in generall may be guilty of the sinne and punishment committed by one Achan in particular none stole but Achan none of all Israel had the Garment but Achan yet God saith verse 1. the Children of Israel committed a trespasse for Achan tooke the accursed thing and Ioshua here Why hast thou troubled us This point is so difficult to be received that Numb. 16. 22. it made Moses begin to expostulate with God upon his knees Shall one man finne and wilt thou be wrath with the whole congregation yet is it of most undoubted truth and veritie as appeares in the Scripture which shewes us that God imputed the sinne of one man in particular not onely to a whole nation present when the sinne was committed but to a future Generation living long after the offender was departed for the present witnes the whole congregation of God Ioshua 22. who collecting this very lesson that wee noted from these words adds two other instances for further confirmation of it Did not Achan the sonne of Zerah offend and that man perished not alone in his iniquity againe Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us from whence we are not cleansed unto this day though wrath came upon all the congregation and yee sinne to day and to morrow the Lord will be wroth with all the house of Israell Sutable to which is that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 5. affirming that the execrable accursed thing of incest in one of the members had infected the whole iumpe of the Church and every member of it And for the future you may see 2 Sam. 27. when Saul was long dead the Famine came upon all the congregation of Israel in Davids time and when David enquired of God wherefore the Famine was God told him it was for Saul and his bloudy house because he slew the Gibeonites yea after Josiahs time the Lord punished the people for the sinne of Manasses 2 Kings 24. 3. yea for sinne committed since they came out of Egypt 2 Kings 27. 15. Reason The reason of this truth upon which it is grounded is the large and spreading nature of sinne unto others besides those that actually commit it the Scripture demonstrater this three waies by shewing how many may be guilty of the sinne that one committs First accessarily secondly occasionally thirdly politically For the first many may be guilty of the sinne acted by one accessarily when the actor is furthered in his sinne by the consent and privity of another and that either à parte antè or à parte post First antè three waies Either by commanding it so David killed Vriah the Hittite with the Sword of the Children of Ammon 2 Sam. 12. because he commanded Joab to set him in the fore-front Secondly by counselling so the high Priests are said with cruell hands to kill the Lord of glory because they counselled the people to cry crucifie him crucifie him Actes 4. Thirdly by provoking or inticing and so Eve was in the transgression and not Adam because she incited him thereto Gen. 3. Secondly à parte post though he had no notice of it before and that First by consenting after the fact is done so Ahab is said to kill Naboth because after Iesaball had done it without his knowledge he consented by taking possession of his Estate Secondly by defending it so the Benjamites Iudges 20. are guilty and punished for the rape of Gibeah though they knew not of it before because they defended them against the execution of justice after it was committed Thirdly by conniving and that either by not reproving if wee have place to doe it so the Minister is guilty of his peoples fins Ezek. 3. If thou reprove him not his bloud will I require at thy hands or not sorrowing for it if no place of reproofe so all the Corinthians were leavened because the Apostle tels them they ought to have sorrowed and did not all these waies may a whole Nation be guilty of the sinne of one man and yet none of these waies was Israel guilty of Achans sinne The second kind of guilt is occasionall guilt which is when the actor is furthered in his sinne without our purpose privity or consent as David was guilty of the Blasphemy of Gods Enemies occasioned by his fall Thou hast given occasion saith God to the enemies of God to Blaspheme 2 Sam. 12. This occasionall guilt is either culpable or inculpable inculpable when the sinne of another riseth from that which in it selfe is both materially and formally good so God deferring of sentence against wicked ones Eccles. 8. is said to be the cause of their going on in their sinne yet inculpable because materially and formally good Secondly Culpable occasionall guilt is when another is furthered in his sinne by that wich is materially or formally evill in us which culpable guilt is either by not restraining or furthering of it occasionally First wee are guilty occasionally for not restraining sinne so Eli of his Sons sinnes 1 Sam. 3. because they runne themselves into a slander and he restrained them not and that First when wee neglect to restraine it by Authority so when the people in Nebemiahs time bore burthens on the Sabbath Nehemiah saith to the rulers What thing is this that you doe in breaking the Sabbath in bearing burthens because they restrained not the porters therefrom Secondly by neglecting of vigilancy in watching to keepe each other from it and so I conceive all Israel was guilty of Achans finne for not watching over him and restraining him from the same I know other reasons are given but this seemes to be the best grounded from the text Both because God tells them before-hand chap. 6. verse 18. that though all but one abstained yet if any one did offend he would punish them all for it Secondly the precept is not only Cavete take heed but Custodite set a watch about others which had they done it had beene impossible but some one in such a company had discovered Achan in his theevery And as a whole nation may be guilty of the sinne of one man by not restraining it so likewise by doing that which shall occasionally further it and that first by example thus Peter is guilty of the Iewes and Gentiles conformity to the abolished Ceremonies by his example and is said to constraine them Gal. 2. Secondly by giving opportunity to sinne as negligence makes theeves Iudas is said to purchase the field Acts. 1. because he threw downe the money which gave occasion to the Jewes to purchase it Thirdly by Imitation of men in their sinnes thus the Scribes and Pharisees in the 23. Matth.