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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

text the sentence and conclusion against Achan The Lord shall trouble you And thus I slide from the Troubler Trouble and troubled in the accusation to the troubles and troubled in the conclusion The Lord shall trouble thee which remedy that it may be fully discerned what it is that is the Soule-cure of the troubles of a Common-wealth by Achans disturbed observe the matter out of which it must be wrought the troubled which is not only Achan alone nor the Wedge and Babylonish Garment alone in which he had offended but Achan and all his appurtenances that unto him belonged his Children his Cattell to a hoose yea the very tent in which they and the Babylonish Garment were kept and hid every thing in all the world that belonged to Achan Secondly observe the troubles what must be done with them that Israel may be cured not Achan to be imprisoned or banished alone not to be fined for the Wedge and Babylonish Garment his Horses not to be curtald seised and confiscated his house and tent to be removed and altered but he and all his Followers stoned Tents and Garments and Wedge utterly to be consumed and burnt to ashes in a word all that he hath to be wholly extirpated and annihilated Thirdly observe the troubler the Author and actor that ordaines this cure not passion or revenge in the people troubled nor humane policy whose equity and moderation might have beene questioned but the Lord who is wisdome love and goodnes himselfe he prescribes it yea and not onely prescribes it but also ownes the execution of it The Lord shall trouble thee As if in this cure he would be knowne to be both the prescriber and administer of the remedy to all disturbed Churches I read not I confesse that the Lord did immediately throw stones from Heaven upon Achan as he did upon the Canaanites Joshua 7. nay I read the contrary that the Magistrate Joshua and the rest of the people by Ioshuahs appointment did immediately both burne and stone them and yet the Lord ownes this act and will have the cure fathered upon none but himselfe teaching us Doct. 3 That the divine policie and heavenly rēmedy to recover a Common-wealth and Church by Achans indangered is that those that have authority under God doe totally abolish and extirpate all the cursed things whereby it was disturbed The rather I observe this note from the text because besides the description of God before opened the elegant phrase which the Spirit of God useth in setting downe the remedy doth strongly perswade it was principally intended while the name of the offender and the name of the offence and the name of the punishment and the name of the place of the execution is exprest by the same Radix in Hebrew {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as if it were thus pend Achan for aconizing is acanized in the valley of Achan or Englished thus the troubler that troubles a Common-wealth like Achan is to be troubled for the same as Achan in the like place of Achans trouble which the Lord himselfe doth affirme in expresse words in the following words in ascribing the whole successe of Israels safety to Achans totall abolishment Then the anger of God was turned from Israel I call it therefure a divine policy First for the prescription secondly the practice First the prescription of God is not onely evident here but in all other of the like nature Exod. 32. the execrable thing of the golden Calfe troubled the whole Church so farre that for it the Tables are broken the people abhorred God departed the whole congregation except Moses to be totally consumed how is this to be remedied Moses fell on his face there as Joshua here and makes God cry out Let me alone c. will this cure it is this all no Moses seeth for all Prayers Israel will not be cured though spared without a full and totall extirpation of all the accursed things and persons also First the accursed thing the Calfe must be abolished stampt ground to powder burnt to ashes and drunke there is the totall extirpation of the thing and verse 25. God saith by Moses his mouth that had prayed for them Goethrough all the Campe from Tent to Tent and Gate to Gate and slay every man his Neighbour Friend Brother and Sonne that the Lord may bestow his blessing upon you as if no blessing without a full extirpation of persons as well as things verse 26. 30. The like is seene in the course of that great trouble which was brought upon the Church by the accursed things of Baal Peor for which wrath came upon the whole congregation of Israel for besides the zeale of Phineas in staying and mitigating the wrath of God by the speedy cutting off of two principall offenders the Lord to shew that a perfect cure could not be without a totall extirpation prescribes it for this end to Moses and all the Iudges in their circuits and divisions Moses saith the Lord hang up every head of the people that were joyned to Baal Pecor that the wrath of God may be turned away and then that all the Iudges and people may slay every man that had defiled themselves in the execrable things Num. 25. 5. And this totall extirpation to be divine prescription to settle establish a Common-wealth distempered in peace and tranquillitie is most evident in the frequent injunction and inculcation of it to Moses and the people of Israel when they came into Canaan to abolish and put downe all accursed things and persons from under Heaven and by their terrible ruins for their partiall extirpation of them Neither is this prescription more divine then the practice in this particular witnes the immediate practice of God himselfe in repairing the ruined Churches and Common-wealth of the old world by taking away the execrable things and persons that then overthrew it what was done God brings an universall deluge totall confusion and extirpation of them all as if God himselfe could doe it by no other meanes but this Sutable to which is that declaration of his in the whole booke of the Prophets and the explication of them in the Revelation where the Lord setting downe and foretelling the reparation and restauration of the Church upon earth againe like new Heavens and new Earth where righteousnesse should dwell and be purged from old troubles and abominations shewes it shall be brought to passe by the full extirpation of all execrable persons and things Beasts false Prophets Thrones of the Beasts Froggs and Locusts name of the Beast and the number of his name As in the daies of Noah also and in the daies of Lot so also now shall the world be curëd by a full extirpation Doth not the practice of Nehemiah in repairing the Church warrant it did he content himselfe onely to purge the Temple of all rubish the Common-wealth of all Ashdods wives and their accursed issues or thrusting the great enemy Tobiah from the

house of the Lord no but Tobiah and all his household stuffe also must out Nehe. 13. 7. shewing this to be the divine policie c. Doth Mordecay thinke it sufficient for the Iewes safety to prevaile with the King for the cutting off of the Favorite Haman or his next court adherents or the extirpation of all the Churches enemies in the Palace to the number of 500. except all the adversaries in all the Kings 127. Provinces be rooted out and totally cut off The Lord reproving and blemishing the practices of the best of the Kings of Israel for want of full extirpation in leaving any of the high places untaken away the Lord rending the Kingdome from Saul and his posterity for sparing one Agag and a few accursed things for sacrifice the fatted beasts of Amaleck and and in declaring that as for want of this thorough exextirpation of all these accursed things he lost both thankes for what he had done and Kingdome also so if he had utterly consumed Amaleck he had thereby for ever setled the Kingdome upon himselfe and his posterity shewes that it is a divivine policy both of divine prescription and practice to cure a Common-wealth by Achans indangered c. Applic. Seeing it is so c. now let the honourable house take notice whence the hope of the peace of our Church the prosperity of the Common-wealth the purity of our Religion the quietnes of our consciences from the nationall accessary and occasionall guilt of Achans and accursed things in troubling our Common-wealth must be expected and looked for even from the valley of Achor the valley of Achor is the onely dore of this hope it is not our victory with Saul our prayers with Moses could we pray as strongly as he our good lawes if as good as those that God wrote in the Tables with his owne hand nor Parliamentary assemblies nor partiall reformation and execution of Justice upon some offenders with as much zeale as Phineas against Cosbie and Zimry that will afford helpe except that those that are in authority under God extirpate all the Achans and Idolatrous things among us that all our Idolatrous Achans the Iesuits the impious Achans the blasphemous Achans the sacrilegious Achans with their Babylonish Garments Babylonish Orders Ceremonies and Gestures their Cattell and Tents be rooted out from among us this is the divine policy to counterplot all the plots of our adversaries to turne Gods wrath from us and to move him to bestow his blessing upon us to cut off these Achans not with a Sithe to lop off the overtopping branches and vast extending boughes alone but to goe to them with a Plough roote out both body and roote and all the sprigs and feeders of them in the Earth where they grow a meditation never more sutable then at this time nor more necessary for Ioshua and Israel in those daies then for us in our daies who for one Achan in the whole host then may finde a whole host of Achans and execrable things in one City now who have as many Babylonish Garments among us as there were threads or shreads in that one of Achans the removall of which in respect of the multitude and power seemes so unpossible to many that with those faint hearted Israelites in Ieremiah their hearts faint and are ready to say there is no hope as good with Issachar be asses and beare our burthens as with Israel in Egypt by seeking to ease our selves of the number of our bricke and taskmakers to procure our burthens doubled and increased But what ever these said yet God and Ioshua shewes in the text that the valley of Achor will be the dore of this hope let me say therefore unto you as good Shechaniah to Ezra c. 10. 2. We have indeed trespassed in the accursed thing and Achans have done wickedly and troubled us but yet there is hope in Israel concerning this the Lord shall trouble them that God that caused Ahasuerus to hang up Haman that caused Samuel to hew Agag in peeces that caused Joshua to extirpate Achan will inable our Ioshuahs to roote out ours also which that it may be accomplished suffer me to proceed with the same Shechaniah to Ezra to you of the honourable House Up for the matter belongs to you wee also will be with you wee even all the godly Ministers of the Countrey as Aaron and Hur with Moses and Ioshua will be with you stand and fast and pray to strengthen your hands steady to the worke all the loyall and godly Commons and people in the Country at your lawfull commands be ready to joyne with you in casting stones against these Achans but the matter belongs to you you must doe the deed you are they that must cure us by the totall extirpation of all Achans and Babylonish Garments among us Let me therefore in the name of the Kingdome that is now endangered by Achans in the name of religion corrupted by Achans in the name of all faithfull teachers opposed by Achans in the name of all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba who are now disturbed by Achans present this supplication to all of you in generall and to every of you in particular to thinke of in your walkes in your private Chambers in your sittings and Committees to save them and theirs from all trouble by them by your troubling of them as Ioshua troubled Achan to wit a thorough abolishment and extirpation of them Doe not wee beseech you conceive that one new peece of Christs robes put to a Babylonish Garment will make the rent the lesse for surely such patching will make the breach the wider nor thinke that any part of a Babylonish Garment will better agree to Christs spouse then the dirty feete of clay in Nebuchadnezars Image could temper with his iron Leggs or Head of Gold what communion hath Christ with Belial or the Temple of God with Idols but rather as that reformation that saves our Soules from the Achans of Hell speak Behold all old things must passe all things become new so in this restauration that cures our Church and Common-wealth from the Achans on Earth let all accursed things passe away and all things become new according to the patterne in the Mount doe in this case as Darius his Generall that having order from his King to revenge wrongs done to his Subjects by his adversaries the Athenians caused his Servants every dish of Meate brought to his Table to cry Sir remember the Athenians So that Ioshua's counsell may every meale and meeting c. report this in your thoughts Sir remember the Achans The East winde did no sooner cure Egypt of the Frogs of Nilus then this course would England of all the Achans and Frogs of Tiber. Little doe Magistrates know the Majesty and authority God hath graven in their foreheads to daunt and chase away these wicked Achans by their frownes and verball discouragements to them Curtes reports that it was some ease to the