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A61282	Four sermons preached upon solemne occasions I. The troubler of Israel. II. The righteous mans concern for the churches misery. Preached before the judges. III. Cæsars due honour, preached before the mayor and aldermen of Leicester, May 29. 1669. IV. Davids work and rest, preached before the election of the mayor. By Tho. Stanhope A.M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester.	Stanhope, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5233B; ESTC R221868	48,189	101

FOUR SERMONS Preached upon Solemne Occasions I. The Troubler of Israel Preached before the Judges II. The Righteous Mans Concern for the Churches Misery Preached before the Judges III. Caesars due Honour Preached before the Mayor and Aldermen of Leicester May 29. 1669. IV. Davids Work and Rest Preached before the Election of the Mayor By Tho. Stanhope A. M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls 1670. Imprimatur Rob. Grove R. P. Dom. Episc Lond. a Sac. Dom. To the Right Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of LINCOLNE My Lord THese Sermons now published do pardon the expression challenge your Lordships Name to be praefixed before them as yours in point of Right They were preached in your Diocese where I now reside and are the First-Fruits of my poor Labours exposed to the World and upon that score ought to be offered into your Lordships Hands It is not a curious Itch of Popular Applause which hath drawn me into Print I could never fancy any thing of mine deserved any Persons notice Nor will I alleadge the Importunity of Friends as a Ground of this Vndertaking though sometimes sufficiently sollicited But to say truth The Auditors were so ingenuous as favourably to accept them when Preached which makes me hope they may be serviceable from the Press as they seemed to be from the Pulpit Such as they are I humbly present them to your Lordship as a real Testimony how much I am My Lord Your Lordships most faithful Servant Tho. Stanhope Leicester Novem. 9. 1669. THE TROUBLER OF ISRAEL A SERMON Preached before the Judges at St. Maries Church in Leicester March 18. 1668 9. By Tho. Stanhope A. M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester The Troubler of ISRAEL 1 Chronicles 2.7 Achar the troubler of Israel who transgressed in the thing accursed WHen Reuben by default forfeited the right of first-born that priviledge was shared between J●seph and Judah Gen. 48.22 Gen. 49.8 Joseph had the double portion Judah the dominion over his Brethren for the Scepter was not to depart from him nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh came His Tribe therefore hath the first place among the twelve where the Israelitish pedigree is drawn down from Adam to the times of Ezra who if not the Author of may well be conceived an additional supplier to this Book Three Sons he had by Shuah but his Family multiplied most by Pharez and Zarah begotten upon Tamar one of the four wicked women mentioned by St. Matthew in our Saviours Genealogy to shew that descending from he came to save sinners And the Progeny of these is slightly passed over with a bare naming till Achar comes in play whose life being more notorious his Character is delivered more at large Achar the troubler of Israel who transgressed in the thing accursed If the Judge be set upon the Bench 't is no marvel to see a Prisoner at the Bar. You my Lords appear by this solemnity ready to sit upon your Judgement-seat my Text presents a Malefactor to be tried and draws an Indictment against him wherein after the usual form you may please to observe 1. His Name 2. His Crime His Name Achar His Crime declared more generally more particularly More generally He was the troubler of Israel More particularly He transgressed in the thing accursed I. His Name Achar saith the Text Achan saith the Book of Joshua An easie alteration by only changing the last Letter Josh 7.1 to express the evil ensuing upon his Wickedness Nabal is his Name and folly is with him so the Scripture of that fottish dolt 1 Sam. 25.25 Achar is his name and trouble comes by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Spirit loves sometimes to be Rhetorical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. i. 29 -31 within 3 verses together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gilgal shall go into Captivity Amos 5.5 Once more out of either Testament Fear the pit and the snare are upon thee Isai 24.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12.3 With several such Paranomasia's Nor are we Ministers always blame-worthy if scattering some Flowers of Elegancy in our Sermons Discourses from the Pulpit may as well be nauseous when slovenly worded as when starchedly delivered All men have not the Gift of neat Elocution where God hath bestowed it why may it not be employed to take mens ears for the gaining their souls But to leave this Criticisme The Person was Achar Great-granchild to the Son of Judah Gen. 32.28 descended from Jacob who as a Prince had power with God and with men and prevailed Piety we see is not hereditary Men may bequeath Lands and Houses and Goods but they cannot draw a Conveyance of Grace We may from our Parents derive the Features of their Faces Tertull. Apolog cap. 18. not the Endowments of their Souls Fiunt Christiani non nascuntur For being men we thank our fathers on earth for being Christians we thank our Father in Heaven Who knows not that faithful Abraham begat a scoffing Ismael Acts 13.22 that from Holy Isaac proceeded a prophane Esau David the man after Gods own heart saw among his Children a rebellious Absalom and an aspiring Adonijah Yea Elies Sons though he a religious Priest were sons of Belial 1 Sam. 2.12.17 and through their sin men abhorred the offering of the Lord. Look among the Kings of Judah at an exact checker-work in four immediate Successions Vzziah is followed with a good Jotham that Jotham with a wicked Ahaz that Ahaz with a pious Hezekiah that Hezekiah with a notorious Manasseh So free are the dispensations of Grace without confinement to places or families Our vertuous Progenitors could not entail Holiness upon their Posterity All are not Israel that are of Israel neither Rom. 9.6.7 because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children As Jeroboams wicked house may yield one in whom is found some good thing towards God 1 Kings 14.13 so from the root of Jacob may grow such a luxuriant putrified branch as this Person in the Text Achar the troubler of Israel But as he derived his pedigree from Jacob so from the first house of his race the eminentest of the Tribes that of Judah Gen. 49 8● On whom Father Israel bestowed the ruling-power as his death-bed Legacy thy Fathers children shall bow down unto thee A Tribe appointed by God as Captain over the rest in the Canaanitish War Judg. 1.2 A Tribe Heb. 7.14 out of which came his chosen King David and afterwards the son of David Christ Jesus our Saviour Hereby ennobled above them all like the Lyon its ensign of honour above the beasts of the field Great men are not always good nor can the best extraction warrant the best condition Especially of late sinning is

shall be seeing ye Rebel to day against the Lord that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel Josh 22.18 Here was a case beyond fear put out of doubt by the sad event Eccles 9.18 One sinner destroyeth much good occasioneth much mischief The whole army suffers by a particular person Achar the troubler of Israel What shall we say then Rom. 3.5 6. Is God unrighteous that taketh vengeance God forbid But if one man sin and wrath come upon more can this be reconciled with equity and justice 1 King 21.29 yes well enough Ahabs son may smart for Ahabs fault the iniquity of the fathers may be visited upon the children Chams curse may be entailed upon his posterity Exod 20.5 nay the Israelites may be beaten for Achars transgression Observe therefore that the Almighty proceeds otherwise in temporal than eternal punishments The last come wholly and singly for our own impieties Ezek. 18.4 The soul that sinneth it shall die The first may overtake us for the impieties of others but still with respect to our particular guilt Thereby we are liable to the strokes of Divine vengeance onely an opportunity is taken to punish when some notorious offence is committed by another our own wickedness is the impulsive cause deserving their 's the occasion bringing down these judgements A company of boyes by some untowardness displease their Master but at present no noise is made of it Their fellow-scholler runs into a fouler crime and the Master layes hold of that season to correct them all Had not this one boy done amiss all might possibly have escaped that whipping yet is not the Master unjust in taking so fair an occasion of giving them their deserts Sic parvis componere magna solemus The application of this simile is clear I would it might affeci our hearts as well as convince our understandings God hath visited our Kingdom with beavy judgements An unnatural war broke out in its bowels and the sword was made drunk with the blood of our Brethren Mens rights were invaded by the Keepers of their liberties The Church was spoiled by pretended Patrons of the state and the Defender of the faith murdered under disguise of securing Religion The force of Law was interrupted by the violence of power and some men would own no authority but what hung by their side Whence came these troubles from sin without question And though the best cannot excuse himself from contributing too much to the common calamities each one heaping fuel upon the fire yet might we not plainly see there was a viperous brood among us lay gnawing at their Mothers heart Men who by heynous wickedness became so many Achars troublers of our Israel In mercy to the land a period was put to the dismall days Heaven smiled upon us afresh and the joy of our hearts was legible in the cheerfulness of our looks when Church and State obtained a resettlement by the restauration of our Soveraign But have not these Achars been at work again Causes are best known by their effects and those effects have been felt to purpose The sheathed Sword was drawn through the rage of our insulting adversaries Nay the Almighties Sword slew our people by thousands Our Royal City became a burnt-offering and as the dreadfull pestilence swept away men from their dwellings so the devouring fire swept away their dwellings from the surviving men The inhabitants were reduced into dust and their houses turned into ashes Yet all this while God was just But is it not time then to find out these disturbers of our peace these occasioners of our troubles these provokers of his wrath They will soon be discovered upon a diligent enquiry For therefore are they troublers because transgressors Achar the troubler of Israel who transgressed in the thing accursed And thus I am come to the particular part of the indictment who transgressed in the thing accursed 2 A command as you heard there was that no hand should be laid upon the spoile of Jericho ye in any wise keep your selves from the accursed thing lest ye make your selves accursed when you take of the accursed thing and make the camp of Israel a curse and trouble it Josh 6 18. It was the Almighties charge who not only prohibited the people from medling but reserved it for his own treasury All the silver and the gold and vessels of brass and Iron are consecrated unto the Lord they shall come into the treasury of the Lord v. 19. Achan through a greedy humour disobeys He saw he coveted he took a Babylonish garment 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold These he hid to pass undiscovered and undiscovered he was till the lot fell upon him that lot extorts a confession from his mouth the prize is found by the searchers of his tent and laid before the multitude Whence we gather that this person was guilty of a double crime Theft and sacriledge Theft in taking what was not his own Sacriledge in taking what belonged unto God Theft in taking what was not his own It is one precept in the moral Law Exod. 20.15 Thou shalt not steal the ground whereof is a propriety given to every man in his own goods to Keep and use them at his own pleasure Nay the same God who hath tied up our hands from stealing 17. hath restrained our hearts from desiring Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house nor any thing that is his He allows no grasping the possessions of our brethren nor carving our selves a share of their wealth We have nothing to do to leap into their houses or seize upon their estates yea we sin if our very riches be irregular which sin will bring a disquietment upon our selves for if Ahab by force took Naboths vineyard the threatnings of God shall make him tremble and occasion a trouble to the place where we live for if Achar steal he is the troubler of Israel by transgressing in the thing accursed Time was during the Gospels infancy when all things were had without distinction Neither said any man that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common Acts 4.32 But as St. Hierome well Distingue tempora concordabunt scripturae observe the difference of times and no difference will be found in the scriptures The persecuted believers were drawn to such exigence that for support of those professing the same faith there was need of sharing in the same possessions Besides the distribution they made was voluntary not constrained no force of Law compelled but only freeness of heart enclined them I add the owners of estates had then such a right as admitted no dispute till parted with by their own consent They had if the distinction may be pertinent jus ad rem they afforded their brethren jus in re Whiles it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own