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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

haste move not yet let Achans haste effect it for the more daies Achans are permitted to stay after discovery the more doe they infect us is the iniquity of Peor too little for us saith the people but wee must have more so say I is it not sufficient that their sins have troubled us but their continuance must infect us and destroy us Deut. 21. there is a law made that the dead body of an executed malefactor should not be suffered to hang on the tree till to morrow Junius out of Epiphanius gives the reason because the fight of them above the earth was execrable to the Lord till they were wholly abolished they would infect now if the bodies of our Achans infect spirituall as well as corporall why should they stay above the ground till to morrow which much like as is said of the Bafilisk spectando dum spectantur both by our seeing them and their seeing of us they slay us First so long as they are seene they slay us because they keepe the fountaine of life from us God will not come one moment to us till they be gone censures and judgment without execution no more brings comfort to the body of a State then promises of payment without satisfaction paies debts while the debt is not paid the suite goes on and while the life of the malefactor is in him by unjust and unnecessary procrastinations Gods justice for all our censures and purposes are still in force against us Secondly and much more spectando while they live do they actually hurt when they are questioned condemned the Law of Man against these Achans doth as the reviving of the Law of God in the consciences of wicked men make them desperately evill m●●e then before 〈◊〉 pere●●te ●●at mundus saith Achan o● that seeing I must die or Israel that I might destroy Israel before I die Baalam when he cannot curse from his Alt●t● undoeth Israel by his secret counsells to the King Balacke against Israel had not Absolon beene spared he had never driven his Father out of his Kingdome this David and all the faithfull of Israel have got by hearing the Woman of Tekoah for his reprievall I may say of all Achans as our Saviour of Judas it had beene good for them and the Kingdome where they live they had never beene borne but that they had perished before they had done either good or evill but having done so much evill and mischiefe to the lives and welfare of whole Kingdomes why should life be further granted to them whose very life brings death to all about them Motive 3 Thirdly in procrastinating their execution you hinder the joy the comfort the Jubilee of the Church for the returne of its praise as long as these sonnes of Belial live the Kingdomes peace and comfort cannot be established onely when these are cast downe will the Church lift up its head and say exaltation and shouting Oh what joy was in Israel when Moses Aaron and Miriam saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore then they sung and danced when Debora and B●●ck saw Sisera beheaded then all but Meros that did not helpe the Lord rejoyced when Mordecai and Hester saw Haman hanged then they kept the feast and daies of Vrin● and when England shall see these Achans executed then shall they rejoyce in the Lord and in the returne of his presence into his Temple ordinances and judicatures hi gandia nostra morantur while these Froggs and Jesuits of Rome be extirpated wee shall not sing the song of Moses and the Lambe Oh therefore hast their ruine and your owne triumph though Rome were not built in one day yet may it be nay it shall be destre●d in a day Revel. 18. 8. her pangs shall come in one day nay in one houre verse 10. in one houre is thy judgment finished our Church hath long time beene in travaile to be delivered of these Vipers and long travails are perilous especially if so and that the spirit and strength of pregnant begin to wast the Dragon and false Prophet labours with all their might to make the birth abortive or destroy the issue in the Wombe oh do you afford such helpe that shall be quick and lively and be delivered before such Midwives come at her then shall she forget all her sorrow and immediately shall follow the Church Hallalajah even the day that others have desired to see and could not but by your expedition in Achans destruction your eyes shall immediately behold truth and peace in your daies and joy in all the Israel of God Motive 4 Fourthly nor shall you by this expedition bring greatest joy to the Church then blessing to your selves Consecrate your selves to day saith Moses to the sons of Levi that God may bestow a blessing upon you teaching us the blessing that God will reward this service withall should quicken their indeavours therein Never any service that you shall doe unto God or your Kingdome shall be better rewarded then this shall Levi did all the services of the Temple yet for his speedy extirpation of the abominable things had he the blessing by this Levi got off the temporall guilt of the She●bonites bloud by this their scattering in Israel was turned to a blessing the temporall blessings of God assured the blessing of immunitie from the sinnes of the Land obtained the acceptation of the sacrifice of the people of Israel from their hands promised as their hereditary blessing so shall you by this worke of expedition of Achans judgment free your selves from the sinnes of all Achans of the times as Ioshua here turne away the wrath of God from your selves and others as Phineas elsewhere you shall be sure that God that awarded Jeh●es extirpation of 〈◊〉 idolatry with reward of a Kingdome in the fourth Generation though done in hypocrisie will not be forgetfull of this your labour to recompence it foure-fold more then to Iehu if you doe it speedily and in sincerity and that God of blessing that blessed Phineas and all his posterity saying I impute his zeale his speedy cutting off two execrable persons for righteousnesse and give him therefore the covenant of peace and he shall have it and his Sonnes after him from Generation to Generation will certainly impute your speedy extirpation of many Achans for righteousnesse unto you and your Sons and heires thereby in●ouled in a Covenant of peace and they shall have it from Generation to Generation when you are dead and gone Motive 5 Fifthly to conclude all and put an end to the exhortation remember this one thing that execution of justice upon Achans is the end and perfection of all other your paines and labour spent in the inquisition examination conviction and sentencing of Achans All these are wholly directed to this as to their end and scope without which it is in vaine to rise up early and sit up late and spend whole Weekes and Moneths from your houses and families to discover and bring them to light to what end is this waste if being found out sentence is not executed execution being the end perfection of all censures uncorrupt judgments how can it appeare that the grounds intentions and rules of your sentences were pure and uncorrupt except after they be pronounced they haste more then ever to the in execution for this is the difference betweene naturall and violent motions violent the further they goe the fainter they grow but naturall make so much the more haste by how much they draw neerer to their end and center therefore that it may appeare to all the world that this Assemblies aim●● was the peace of the Kingdome and remove all of unjustice and unrighteousnesse from it and was carried thereto by the rules of wisdome and naturall affection to truth and holinesse being now so neere the end make haste to the center to wit execution of Achans without unnecessary delaies and needlesse procrastrations Thus have you seene and heard the end and meanes of the ruine of the Church in Achans accusation and the notes and meanes of the recovery of a Church in Ioshua's sentence and execution What now remaines but as Musitians report that a Lute or other well tuned instrument hanging by on a Wall will resound the notes and choice straines and touches which another played on before it by a skilfull hand may seeme to dictate unto it and that whersoever it failes in answering its patterne yet it is most observant of the closes in the end and keeping time with them so Ioshua is the instrument by whom the Lord hath presented these notes and lessons of heavenly melody unto your eares concerning Church purging and state reforming policy in the valley of Achor as therefore to the honour of God and the joy of his Church you have hitherto observed all the former notes of this heavenly musicke by your harmony and sweet consent examining and sentencing these Achans So God grant you may most carefully keepe time also with them in the close not ending in a Large or a Long procrassination of executing Justice but in a Briefe quicke and speedy extirpation of them with Ioshua to trouble them all and that this day FINIS 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}

an atonement to God for disturbances and judgment brought upon a people by Achans for where the offence is immediate against God none injured by it but himselfe he takes liberty to delay yea sometimes to revoke it but in such offences where besides the offence against himselfe in Heaven the Church and Common-wealth also are troubled by accursed things as in Achans case then doth he not pardon or remit execution upon any repentance of confession whatsoever but proceed to seeke satisfaction of Justice in the execution of the delinquent notwithstanding their repentance is seene in that one example 2 Sam. 21. 3. Where nothing could make the atonement for the Land by Sauls offending in the execrable thing of perjury against the Gibeonites but the reall and speedy execution and extirpation of all his seed notwithstanding Davids teares and prayers and that sentences of this nature are to be executed with speed and without procrastination is that I aime now to prove to be the will of God which I might do without any further search then in desiring you to looke backe to those instances wherein you have heard the Lord to prescribe the cure of a disturbed State by a sentence of totall extirpation of the offenders and therin you shall read this truth annexed and twisted with the other yea as plainly exprest as the other that the execution of them be not onely certaine but speedy without delay For this of Achan there is nothing more cleere in all this passage of the Scripture then the expedition of the execution of his sentence first in the Lords speedy prescribing it as verse 13. Sanctifie your selves against to morrow delay not one day no not one part of the day deferre not till the afternoone 1 verse 14 early in the morning come according to all your Tribes And as in Gods prescription so in the whole peoples practice obedience who shewed First speed in inquisition they rose early in the morning and brought all the people by the Tribes before the Lord verse 16. Secondly speed in conviction Joshua sent messengers to search his Tent who it is said hasted and runne to the same Thirdly speed in execution after conviction and sentence as in the text The Lord shall trouble thee to day neither is this expedition peculiar to this instance of Achan but also most expresly declared to be the will of God in all the other Extirpation of the execrable thing of the Golden Calfe and idolatry Exod. 32. is expresly commanded to be executed without any delay verse 30. Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord in the speedy execution of which sentence how many things might carnall reason have objected against it as both rash and cruell First must nothing serve but death for the first d●ncing about the Idoll may they not repent and live no they must die Secondly but if they must die what no hand but their Brothers or Fathers hands upon them must not the naturall ties of friendship be regarded no saith Moses slay every man his Brother and his Sonne Thirdly but if they must have their throats cut by their Kindreds hands must it be in the heate of their sinne before time given them to repent yea saith Moses speedily consecrate your selves this day without any delay But surely it was a cruell minded man that was greedy of bloud nay Moses the meekest man on the Earth and one that would rather have died himselfe then they if that would have satisfied God he had tendered his life before But good men have their faults so Moses and the Levites might be too hasty and make more hast then God would have given them thankes for nay saith Moses this pleased God so well that it was a consecrating themselves unto the Lord hereby and God bestowes a blessing on them therefore Consecrate your selves c. this sacrifice of these mens blouds so pleased the Lord that they shall be the persons that for ever after shall offer the sacrifice of his people to him Againe that by a threefold witnesse this truth might be established in the extirpation and sentence and the execution against the execrable thing of Baal Peor Num. 15. 4. it is expresly commanded that it be executed without the delay of one day so saith the text Hang up all the heads and Princes of the people Coram isto sole as Junius renders it before this Sunne goe downe procrastinate not at all which they also obeyed for in the 1 Cor. 10. 5. it is said There fell in one day three and twenty thousand and one thousand Nobles besides and I conceive the reason why the staying of the Plague was attributed especially to Phineas execution rather then the others because he was more zealous which appeared in his more speedy execution for verse 7. when Phineas saw he rose up from the midst of his more luke-warme stupid Companions instantly following and speedily executed judgment whereby the Plague was speedily stayed And upon the knowledge of this part of Gods will it is that David Psalme 101. 1. resolving so to execute mercie and justice that the faithfull in his daies be preferred concludes to extirpate the wicked out of his Kingdome I will cut off saith he all the wicked from the City of God But when shall this be done even without all procrastination betimes saith he will I destroy or as the originall beares it in the morning early shewing it should be his first mornings worke to execute the will of God in procuring the peace of the Kingdome by the speedy execution of justice against the troublers of it Object Against this position the necessity of expedition some of the house of Z●●dy Achans Brethren possibly may object the practice of that illustrious preserver of the peace of his Country Fabius Maximus qui cunctando restituit rem that is by delay and using long p●wses in going against the troublers and enemies of his Countrey did use to weary them and weare them out by little and little rather then by speed and celeritie to vanquish them and for it is called cunctator pater patriae scutum populi the preserver of his Country the shield of the Common-wealth Answ 1 For answer to it I say first that Fabius delayes was not in executing justice against domesticke enemies Achans at home but in going against torraine and politicke enemies abroad both which may well stand together in the same man to wit delay in going against forraigne enemies in a militarie way and expedition in extirpating domesticke enemies in a judiciall way as is seene in the same Fabius who was so speedy in executing death against the legions of his owne that revolted to Hannibal that he tooke the very course that Ioshua here doth cast lots to set out the persons to be executed and then beheaded them with his owne sword not staying for the comming of the executioner to doe it Answ 2 Secondly I answer that his delaies was rather in deferring