Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…

Secondly, this teacheth us how to pray against sin.¹ It must be against all, and in all respects. In the Hebrew text there is a kind of unusual transposition of the words, [Greek or Hebrew] The word all is first. Me thinks it doth intimate an Intentness of the Church upon that point, to have, if it were possible, all taken away at the very first. If there be one leak in a ship, one gap in a wall, one gate in a City unprovided for; it is enough to sink a ship, to drown a Country, to betray a City. One little boy thrust in at a window, can unlock the door for all the rest of the thieves. It was but one Jonah that raised a tempest, but one Achan that troubled a Camp, and one sin generally unrepented of, were enough to undo a Kingdom. Do not say it is a little one, and my soul shall live. Even the· ^aPhilosopher telleth us, that sometimes [Greek or Hebrew] are [Greek or Hebrew], the smallest errors prove most dangerous. How little soever it be in its own nature, it becomes heinous by thy allowance. It is as much treason to coin pence as twenty shilling pieces, because the Royal authority is as much violated by the one as the other.

Secondly, this teacheth us how to pray against sin.¹ It must be against all, and in all respects. In the Hebrew text there is a kind of unusuall transposi•ion of the words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 The word all is first. Me thinkes it doth intimate an Intentnesse of the Church upon that point, to have, if it were possible, all taken away at the very first. If there bee one leak in a ship, one gap in a wall, one gate in a City unprovided for; it is enough to sink a ship, to drown a Countrey, to betray a Citie. One little boy thrust in at a window, can unlock the doore for all the rest of the theeves. It was but one Ionah that raised a tempest, but one Achan that troubled a Camp, and one sin generally unrepented of, were enough to undo a Kingdome. Do not say it is a little one, and my soule shall live. Even the· ^aPhilosopher telleth us, that sometimes 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 are , the smallest errors prove most dangerous. How little soever it bee in its owne nature, it becomes hainous by thy allowance. It is as much treason to coin pence as twenty shilling pieces, because the Royall authority is as much violated by the one as the other.