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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

the whole Kingdome in so short a time in so few moneths is so deeply layed Compare the complexion of our Kingdome Judicatures Oratories c. at this present with the countenance they have carried for many by-gone yeares and you will say more have beene done for our peace and against Achans within five moneths last past then in fifty yeares before if all see it not it is because they are blind or consider not that it is in great bodies and publique businesses of State as in the motions of the Heavens which are most speedy in their course yet not sensibly perceived but by their effects when wee discerne those Starres that were aloft overnight are under feet in the morning though wee saw not their motion yet wee conclude the speed of their course even so when wee see blazing Comets and boystering clouds scattered our darke Starre elevated when wee see Hushais counsell entertained and Achitophells rejected when wee see a Warre as furiously persecuted and bent to as great hazard to our Kingdome as Absolons was against Israel by our Joshuahs and Hushais delayed now turned to a glorious peace a Triennall Parliament concluded Achitophell hanged wee cannot choose but say as David to Abigail Blessed be the Lord that sent you and blessed be you your counsell that hath thus ●oon● made our B●achim the place of our weeping become our Beracha and turned our teares into Songs yee have made this yeare the yeare of Jubilee unto us wherein so many exiled and banished from Gods house from their owne houses and places and Kingdomes as at the death of the high Priest have returned to their owne inheritance againe and with Ezra chap. 7. 27. Blessed be the Lord which hath put such a thing as this into the Kings heart give unto the Lord you mightie give unto Lord glory due unto his name for he hath loosed the collars of Princes and made the Judges vaines blesse yee the Lord yee house of Aaron for he is now your helpe and shield yea let all the Saints be joyfull with glory to our God and fing aloud upon their beds for God hath put into their hearts both power and readinesse to execute vengeance on Achans and correction among the people to binde their great ones in chaines and their Princes in fetters of Iron to execute speedily the judgment that is written this honour have all his Saints Praise yee the Lord Secondly as it affords matter of praise to God and you for the expedition already past so also further occasion of Prayer in respect of what is behinde if expedition in execution of Achans is the will of God then let us pray God to convey his will into your wills still and make you more willing to make speed to save us and hast to helpe us suffer us to pray God to remove all blockes and impediments out of your waies and from your owne hearts and spirits that what Achan soever shall by due examination be convinced to be a troubler and disturber of the lawes of God and the Kings as in Ezra 7. 26. Judgment may be executed upon him and that speedily whether it be unto death or banishment or confiscation of goods or imprisonment suffer me in the name of God and his poore Church to pray you that if God stir up the hearts of some to be forward there may none be found that may retard or delay the same serendo moras from selfe-love favour feare or carnall reason but that still Justice against these Achans may runne downe in the straightest way and the shortest course and not in the winding bankes of unnecessary delayes Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord and if all Achans could be hanged up Coram isto sole let none remaine untill tomorrow how ever in exercising mercy and justice betimes in cutting off all the wicked from the City of God thinke not that our prayer of expedition ariseth from distrust or suspition of your wisdome and diligence for although he that beleeveth in God himselfe doth not make hast by way of diffidence yet doth he pray God make hast to helpe us oh Lord make speed to save us out of confidence and if the God of Heaven give us leave to incite him with our arguments and quicken him by our prayers I hope I shall without offence pray this honourable House that they would quicken themselves by the consideration of these incitements following tending to speedy execution Motive 1 First from the Lord whose will it is that you make speed he as soone as ever any Achan hath sinned in offending in the execrable thing sets out his judgments and wrath after him and the Kingdome also where he dwells if Joshua's execution overtake Achan before Gods then they spare and save themselves as in the cause of the Gibeonites is evident when Davids judgment overtakes him the Lord forbeares but if not he goeth on still Oh what danger is there then in one daies delay when if our speed in execution bee not sooner then Gods we come too la●e Thinke Right Honourable in your pursuing of these Achans that the Lord is pursuing you both with his threatned wrath if you execute not vengeance on them betimes and if you delay one day thinke God that comes on Eagles Wings and is a swift witnesse against Achans will come in the day you begin to be slacke and so surprize you before them oh therefore make no delay when hast onely saves I read in the 1 Samuel 25. when Abigail heard that David was offended and comming to destroy her Familie for Nabals fault that she hasted to take two hundred Cakes to prevent David verse 18. and commanded her servants verse 19. to make more hast then her selfe could But goe yee before mee and I will follow after and when shee saw David verse 21 she hasted and lighted off her Asse and anne to meete him and fell at his feete but what need all this hast even the hast that David made to revenge himselfe on Nabal and all his Familie he would not delay nor procrastinate till the dawning of the day God doe so to mee and more also if I leave ought of Nabal alive till the dawning of the day saith David Therefore not her Cakes not confession but hast saved her and her Familie as David tells her in terminis verse 30. As the Lord of hosts liveth except thou hadst hasted and met moe● I had not left any thing alive by the breaking of the day Ch 〈…〉 name the cause is ours our Achans Nabal● have provoked Davids God against us more then David against Nabal his poore servants come tell you evill will come upon us therefore you are ou●Abigails hast for as the Lord liveth except you hast wee may feare little will be left in a few daies and the rather because God is in view and therefore stay not while his wrath overtake us stay not while our Kingdome be destroyed Motive 2 Secondly if Gods

millions of Soules in this Kingdome lie under the Altars of these Achans crying with teares from their eyes and bitternesse of grief in their hearts How long Lord how long will it be ere thou revenge the losse of our ordinances Sabbaths Sacraments how long shall it be ere the bloud of Soules shed by idle scandalous negligent ministers by their ignorance errors superstition be regarded by our Joshua how long will it be ere th●u put soule pitying spirits into their pious hearts to ease us of these execrable Achans oh let your spirits observe the complaints and petitions brought unto you from all parts of the Kingdome by the sheepe of Christ that have no Shepheard but onely Achans troubling Wolves to destroy and with the Lord Iesus Christ that great Ioshuah have compassion upon them and send labourers to them so shall you save their soules from death and be both Ioshuah and God and Saviour Ethicè in vertue and piety toward them and being so God will also make you like himselfe in honour and dignity I confesse the man that shall neglect to oppose these Achans among you much more he that shall goe about to patronize any execrable thing shall be rather an Abaddyon an Apollon a destroyer then a Ioshuah or a Saviour yea rather a Satan then God or if a God a God that rules in this World in and for the Children of Belial the Achans but for that Magistrate that shall now take up this resolution to the uttermost of his power with Ioshuah to extirpate all Idolaters impious blasphemers sacrilegious Achans and Babylonish Garments oh what honour would they purchase at the hands of this age oh what a blessing would he bring upon his posterity oh what peace and joy to his owne soule here oh what a crowne of glory to raigne with Christ for ever in Heaven Certainly I verily perswade my selfe all the faithfull people of God in the whole land out of unfained good-will to them would spend whole daies and nights in praises and prayers to God for them and if it were fitting fall downe at their very feet and worship them ring their Bells and clap their hands make burne-fires at the very report of their names joy to see them prosecute them and their posterity and their houses with praise and all manner of excellent acknowledgments that as Moses to Aaron so these unto their Countrey should be like God himselfe to them Motive 3 Thirdly besides these two incitements from the Lord and Ioshuah there is a third in the text from our selves Even because they trouble us thou hast troubled us saith Ioshuah If therfore neither prescription of God practice of Saints peace of the Church prosperity of the Common-wealth supplication of inferiours exaltation of your owne honours do not move you yet let that which moved the unrighteous judge that neither regarded God nor Men to revenge the poore Widow of her adversary move you namely because shee troubled him what troubles these Achans have brought upon our royall Soveraigne State Church and Common-wealth already you better know then I from the generall complaints and petitions presented unto you every day but what trouble they will bring upon us for time to come if they be not now cut off neither you nor I can conjecture onely the Lord knowes but all may see that an universall destruction extirpation of us our Religion Peace and Lawes was intended by them traiterously and unjustly and shall not Ioshua justly extirpate Achans for Achans unjust extirpation of Israel Eye for Eye Tooth for Tooth that justice may measure them the measure they would have measured to us is not onely equall but necessary nam quid adempta juvat spinis de pluribus una what profits us if of a hundred Achans and Babylonish Garments to take away one and leave ninety and nine behinde whereas if ninety nine were gone and but one remaining he would trouble us all especially now when God hath discovered them unto you and given direction from his word by his lot that except they be taken away he will be no more with us but against us Had Ioshua spared Achan after his discovery and conviction would not the Lord have told Ioshua Thy life shall goe for his what thou shouldst have done to him and didst not I will assuredly lay upon thy selfe for neglecting it The application I leave to your owne consciences and make hast to shew you the speed that Ioshua and Israel used in executing this sentence for Israels preservation in Achans totall extirpation This expedition is to be observed from the last two particulars in the text to wit the two times of trouble the first is the time of Achans troubling Israel and that time was past Achan had taken his owne time to steale the Wedge and thereby to trouble Israel and Ioshua he had taken Gods time for inquisition and examination and given Achan sufficient time to answer for himselfe before his sentence and then being convicted by evidence of witnesses and his owne confession comes Gods time to be considered which the Lord takes to trouble Achan in executing the sentence against him for troubling Israel and that was that very day the sentence was pronounced with all speed and expedition without one daies procrastination or unnecessary delaies The Lord shall trouble thee this day whose practice and precept to Joshua affords us and our Joshua's this further lesson and direction Do 4 Fourthly that those sentences of justice against the troublers of the State which were concluded after due tryall and examination are to be executed upon them without any unnecessary delaies or procrastinations That I be not mistaken in the proposition let it be remembred first that I understand it not of comminations or threatning of justice but peremptory sentences after due deliberation for I know the Lords owne practice in himselfe and will to his servants is repent of the evill and to put great distance betweene the commination of judgment and execution of it but never to vary or repent from the time of peremptory sentence of a judgment and its execution in commination and prediction he intends reformation and remission or at least tryall of the same as in the 120 yeares forbearance with the old world 40 daies prediction of judgment to Nineve of all which it is true as the Apostle affirmes 2. Peter 3. The Lord is not sl●ck as men are by sluggish delaies and unnecessary demurres but is patient that men might repent and be saved but in peremptory sentences he intends personall satisfaction to justice therefore then after due tryall and examination executes it without any delay as Gen. 19 After God came downe and saw the wickednesse of Sodome he executed his wrath the same day after Adam was throughly examined that day he began to die the death both in being expelled from Paradise and in inflicting vengeance upon him Secondly I understand it of sentences concluded to satisfie Justice in making

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}