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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02527	Contemplations vpon the principal passages of the holie historie. The third volume: in three bookes. By I. Hall, Doctor of Diuinitie; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 3	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1615 (1615)	STC 12654; ESTC S103660	101,087	468

Gibeon and rescued vs from the powers of hell and death Ioshua fought but God discomfited the Amorites The praise is to the workman not the instrument Neither did God slay them onely with Ioshua's sword but with his owne haile-stones that now the Amorites may see both these reuenges come frō one hand These bullets of GOD doe not wound but kill It is no wonder that these fiue Kings flie They may soone run away from their hope neuer from their horror If they looke behind there is the sword of Israel which they dare not turn vpon because God had taken their hart from them before their life If they looke vpwards there is the haile-shot of God fighting against them out of heauen which they can neither resist nor auoyd If they had no enemy but Israel they might hope to runne away from death sith feare is a better footeman then desire of reuenge but novv vvhither-soeuer they runne heauen will be aboue their heads And now all the reason that is left them in this confusion of their thoughts is to wish themselues well dead there is no euasion where GOD intends a reuenge Wee men haue deuised to imitate these instruments of death and send foorth deadly bullets out of a clowd of smoke wherein yet as there is much danger so much vncertaintie but this God that discharges his Ordinance from heauen directs euery shotte to an head and can as easily kil as shoot It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God hee hath mo waies of vengeance then hee hath creatures The same heauen that sent foorth water to the old world fire to the Sodomites lightning and thunderbolts to the Egyptians sends out haile-stones to the Amorites It is a good care how wee may not anger God it is a vain study how we may fly from his iudgements when wee haue angred him if wee could run out of the vvorld euen there shall we finde his reuenges far greater Was it not miracle enough that God did braine their Aduersaries from heauen but that the Sunne and Moone must stand stil in heauen Is it not enough that the Amorites fly but that the greatest Planets of heauen must stay their owne course to witnesse and wonder at the discomfiture For him which gaue them both beeing and motion to bid them stand still it seemes no difficulty although the rarenes would deserue admiration but for a man to commaund the chiefe starres of heauen by whose influence he liueth as the Centurion would do his seruant Sunne stay in Gibeon and Moone stand still in Aialon it is more then a wonder It was not Ioshua but his faith that did this not by way of precept but of prayer If I may not say that the request of a faithfull man as wee say of the great commaunds Gods glorie vvas that which Ioshua aimed at hee knew that all the world must needs be witnesses of that which the eye of the world stood still to see Had he respected but the slaughter of the Amorites hee knew the haile-stones could doe that alone the Sunne needed not stand still to direct that clowd to persecute them but the glory of the slaughter was sought by Ioshua that hee might send that vp whence those haile-stones and that victory came All the earth might see the Sunne and Moon all could not see the cloud of haile which because of that heauie burden flew but low That all Nations might knowe the same hand commands both in earth in the clouds in heauen Ioshua now prayes that hee which dishartned his enemies vpon earth smote them from the cloud would stay the Sunne and Moone in heauen God neuer got himselfe so much honour by one dayes worke amongst the heathen and vvhen was it more fitte then now vvhen fiue heathen Kings are banded against him The Sun and the Moone were the ordinary Gods of the world and who would not but think that their standing still but one houre should be the ruine of Nature now all Nations shall well see that there is an higher then their highest that their Gods are but seruants to the GOD whom themselues should serue at whose pleasure both they and Nature shall stand at once If that God which meant to work this miracle had not raised vp his thoughts to desire it it had bin a blameable presumption which now is a faith vvorthy of admiration To desire a miracle without cause is a tempting of God O powerfull GOD that can effect this O power of faith that can obtaine it What is there that God cannot doe and what is there which God can doe that faith cannot doe THE ALTAR of the Reubenites REuben and Gad were the first that had an inheritance assigned thē yet they must inioy it last So it falls out oft in the heauenly Canaan the first in title are the last in possession They had their lot assigned them beyond Iorden which tho it were allotted them in peace must be purchased with their war that must be done for their brethren which needed not be done for themselues they must yet still fight and fight for-most that as they had the first patrimonie they might indure the first incounter I do not hear them say This is our share let vs sitte downe and enioy it quietly fight who will for the rest but when they knew their own portion they leaue wiues and children to take possession and march armed before their brethren till they had conquered all Canaan Whether should wee more commend their courage or their charitie Others were mooued to fight with hope they onely with loue they could not winne more they might lose themselues yet they wil fight both for that they had something and that their brethren might haue Thankfulnesse and loue can doe more with Gods children then desire to merit or necessitie No true Israelite can if hee might chuse abide to sitte still beyond Iordan when all his brethren are in the field Now when all this war of God was ended and all Canaan is both won and diuided they returne to their owne yet not till they were dismissed by Ioshua all the sweet attractiues of their priuate loue cannot hasten their pase If heauen be neuer so sweet to vs yet may we not runne from this earthen warfare till our great Captaine shall please to discharge vs. If these Reubenites had departed sooner they had been recalled if not as cowards surelie as fugitiues now they are sent back with victorie and blessing How safe and happie it is to attend both the call and the dispatch of GOD Beeing returned in peace to their home their first care is not for Trophees nor for houses but for an Altar to God an Altar not for sacrifice which had been abominable but for a memoriall what God they serued The first care of true Israelites must be the safetie of Religion the world as it is inferiour in worth so must it be in respect Hee neuer knew God