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Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered…
Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered and attended with their remedies : in a sermon delivered at Margaretson Fish-street-hill, London : II. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times / by William Bridge ...Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered and attended with their remedies : in a sermon delivered at Margaretson Fish-street-hill, London : II. A preperation for suffering in these plundering times / by William Bridge ...
London: printed for Benjamin Allen, 1642
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The Diseases that make a stoppage to Englands Mercies discovered; and attended with their remedies. Delivered in a SERMON at Margarets on Fishstreet-hill, London.
JOSH. 7.4. So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, and they fled before the men of Ai.
IN this Chapter you have a Treatise concerning Achans sin, branching it self into three parts, one concerning the commission of the sin, the second concerning the discovery of it, and the third concerning the punishment thereof. As for the sin it self, the commission thereof, what it was, you read in the first verse, that the children of Israel had committed a trespass; God had commanded that all the spoil of Jericho should be consecrated unto himself, and that the first fruits of all should be his; Jericho being the first City that they took in, in the land of Canaan, by right it did belong unto God, all the treasure, silver and gold, wealth and goods that was therein, properly it did belong unto God; now Achan be plays the thief, and does appropriate some of Gods goods, and wealth unto himself; this was charged upon him as a sin, and so upon all Israel, as at the first verse; keeping from God any thing that does belong unto him, is a sin. Now in the second place this sin ⟨p. 2⟩was discovered by occasion of the defeat that was before the town of Ai; they passing on from Jericho (at the second verse) unto the town of Ai, they laid siege to it; but their siege was broken up, and three thousand men fled, and thirty six men were slain, verse 4, 5. Sins committed in one City, will follow us unto another, and overtake us there. Oh what unexpected ways and means hath God for to bring out mens sin to light? Three thousand men flee before the men of Ai, and thirty six men are slain, and this was made the means of discovery of Achans sin, who would have thought that there should have been such a discovery as this?