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A53924 Jericho's downfal, in a sermon preached upon Jan. 31, 1688/89 being a day of publick thanksgiving to God for our deliverance from popery and arbitrary power / by Samuel Peck, Minister of Popler. Peck, Samuel. 1689 (1689) Wing P1035; ESTC R1038 9,368 32

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JERICHO'S Downfal IN A SERMON Preached upon Jan. 31. 1688 / 9. Being a day of Publick Thanksgiving to God for our Deliverance FROM Popery and Arbitrary Power By Samuel Peck Minister of Popler LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1689. Joshua 6. 26. Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho THE Notion of Doctrine or a Purgatory in the other life hath been long since exploded as an idle Dream or Fiction by a great part of the Christian world But that a double Purgatory attends the Church and People of God in this Life all sound Christians firmly believe the one of Water the other of Fire The former that great Apostle St. Paul stiles the washing of Regeneration Tit. 3. 5. the other St. Peter calls the 1 Pet. 4. 12. Fiery Tryal And no sooner almost are they passed through the one the Water of Baptism but instantly they are plunged into the other the Fire of Affliction and both are needful That they may be cleansed and made like to Christ in Purity and Holiness the Laver of Regeneration or washing of the Isa 27. 9. Heb. 12. 10. New Birth is necessary And that they may be made conformable to Christ in suffering the Fiery Tryal is necessary also It may seem strange indeed that Afflictions and Troubles should await Heavens darling Gods beloved the Spouse or Church of Christ yet 't is so Rom. 8. 29. 1 Thes 3. 3. predestinated 't is so appointed saith St. Paul for their purification not their destruction no Christ hath said The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church to destroy it Tho' God may suffer his People as the Prophet Isa speaks to pass through the Fire and through Isa 43. 2. the Water to Try Purge Refine and Prove them yet is he so far from intending their destruction that he hath breathed forth many terrible threatnings against yea entails an heavy curse upon those that seek or endeavour his Churches Extirpation and Ruine by upholding and maintaining the professed and Implacable Enemies thereof saying Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho Whereupon Joshua here adjures or chargeth them that they put not their helping hand to this work for whoever shall do it is cursed before the Lord And Joshua adjured them at that time saying Cursed be the man before the Lord that buildeth this City Jericho In this Chapter you have the Story of the Overthrow and Conquest of that once famous City Jericho with the reason of it It seems it stood in the way to hinder Gods People in their passage to Canaan the Land of promise and therefore down it must it must be removed God will clear a way for his people to what he had promised though he be at the expence of a Miracle to do it as you find he was here For Joshua by Gods Direction and Commission compasseth the Walls of the City seven days together and at last not by Storm and Battery but by the blast of Rams-horns and the Shout of the People the Walls fall flat to the ground this was to shew the Israelites that the Conquest was not owing to their power but to Gods mercy and what great things God can do for a people by small means when he pleaseth Well the Walls being down Joshua and the People enter and destroy all that was therein Rahab and her Family only excepted sparing neither man nor Beast Young nor Old but cut off all with the Edge of the Sword and then burn the City as you read in the former part of the Chapter Now this being done to shew what the Enemies of Gods People must expect Joshua doth in the name of God impose a curse upon him that should go about to build this City again saying Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho The Text then you see contains a curse breathed forth against the Enemies of Gods Church wherein you have these particulars 1. The denuntiation of the Curse Cursed be the man. 2. The Reality and certainty of the curse expressed in these words Before the Lord. 3. The Subject of the curse or the person cursed The man that shall rise up to build the City Jericho 1. The Denuntiation of the curse Cursed be the man. We read in Scripture of many curses denounced both by God and Man It was an heavy curse God denounced against Adam Eve and the Serpent for their sin Gen. 3. Our Saviour often poured out Woes and Curses against the Scribes and Pharisees for Mat. 23. their hypocrisy Moses denounceth many curses Deut. 28. against the transgressors of the Law Jacob cursed the wrath of Simeon and Levi Cursed be their wrath for it was Cruel And Gen. 49. these curses were often used by Abraham and the Prophets What a Roll of curses have you in Psal 109. Denounced by the Prophet David against the Enemies of Gods Church And such is this of Joshua in my Text Cursed be the man that shall build this City Qu. But the question is Whether Joshua did well to curse any in this manner since the command is given by our Saviour Bless and curse not Ans Yes No doubt but Joshua might lawfully do it because in this he was a Prophet God had revealed to Joshua thus much that the man should be accursed that should build the City Jericho so that he spoke this by the Spirit of Prophecy foreknowing the mind of God in this matter This plainly appears by what you read 1 King 16. last In his days that is in the days of Ahab did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his first-born and set up the Gates thereof in his youngest Son Segub that is in the death of these Sons according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Joshua the Son of Nun that is in this place cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho he shall lay the foundation thereof in his first-born and in his youngest Son shall he set up the Gates of it So then Joshua spoke no more than what God had revealed to him and which he knew would most certainly come to pass he did it by the direction and inspiration of the Holy Ghost for this reason Joshua might lawfully denounce this curse Yet we must not hereupon think it lawful for us to curse our Enemies No our Rule is Bless and curse not Bless those that curse you and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you saith our Saviour It may be a wretched Goliah an uncircumcised Philistine may accustom his mouth to curses but such Gall and Poyson becomes not the mouths of Gods People Besides he that curseth another doth in truth curse himself Observe that of