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A83947	Englands alarm to vvar against the Beast: by command from heaven, and his Israels example upon earth, comming-in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite: upon the same ground from Scripture and reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, to resist the prince ruling in the aire, and with the kings of the earth. In 3. sections: wherein, I. The history of Sauls war against David is so related ... that it relates ... to the three last yeeres affaires ... II. And to the bloudy execution of the Edomite in this war against the Parliament in Ireland and Lngland [sic] ever since. III. Here is also excellent reason given, why the tribes came not in sooner ... Also, to confirme the hearts and hands of the godly in their warfare ...		1643 (1643)	Wing E2941; Thomason E56_15; ESTC R20696	26,569	31

Englands Alarm to VVar against the Beast By command from Heaven and His Israels Example upon Earth comming in to rescue David out of the hands of a cruell Lord and a bloudy Edomite upon the same ground from Scripture and Reason Israel had then and Christians now To resist the Prince ruling in the Aire and with the Kings of the Earth In 3. Sections Wherein I. The History of Sauls War against David is so related from the sacred Text that it relates in whole and in part to the three last yeeres affaires The most remarkable Passages between the King and the Parliament before the War brake forth II. And to the bloudy Execution of the Edomite in this War against the Parliament in Ireland and England ever since III. Here is also excellent Reason given Why the Tribes came not in sooner and sufficient Reason Why they came in so Armed at the last Relating fully to this present time The wonderfull Providences The admirable Deliverances Strange Discoveries c. As at this day Also To confirme the hearts and hands of the Godly in their warfare and to strike terrour to the wicked fighting for the Devill and against Gods hidden ones contrary to the Vow in Baptisme Oath of Allegiance and Covenant entred into by all good Subiects And To stablish the heart in a patient expectation of the glorious end GOD will make Though for a time He will plead with all flesh by fire and by His sword and the slain of the LORD shall be many He who affirms That Christians may not resist wicked Rulers does affirme with as with as loud a voice though he would not be heard That Christians may not resist the Evill-one ruling in wicked Rulers and acting violences by their hands Scl. de Imp. PSAL. 11. 5 6 7. The Lord tryeth the Righteous but him that loveth violence His soul hateth ISAIAH 60 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in His time Printed in the second yeare of the Beasts wounding making war with the Lamb and those that are with Him 〈…〉 and Faithfull for Thomas Vnderhill 〈…〉 An Apologie for the Epistle following I Shall lay open the depths of Sathan hidden works of darknesse Then I shall shew a Traine of Providences c. The sure mercies of David I can tell my selfe now I shall against my Rule speak excellent things in the eares of a foole shew him the Sun in your hand as the Proverbe is he will not see it Tell him it is the Word of God what cares he he will not heare it Tell him it is a Pearle he regards it not A very swine A brutish man Mad upon his Idols Yet let us do our endeavours to make him sober Surely this before him will do it if any thing under heaven can make him heare and see both For he will see the Devill here all along acting a bloudy part and if the Devill be not in him he will see himselfe and his owne Actings in the Devill He will heare two men speaking to him from the dead also he will see all their notorious violences acted over afresh by his own hand now He must heare the voice of the Eving God too and see what end the LORD makes Those Persons all whom he and his fellowes have dealt so hatefully with shall be set on high before his face the higher the lower he would have pressed them downe there singing the high praises of their GOD and himselfe amongst others his fellow Malignants laid low as contemptible as their own dung gnawing their tongues for paine Whether he will heare or whether he will forbeare it is at his perill Let him that is filthy be filthy still and let the foole hold fast his folly sober men will heare and be instructed To the most Malignant Reader IT is granted on both sides there are but two That now is the time all over the Christian world when Kings go forth to battell All their Subjects are engaged now It is high time then to consider the Case weigh it well with all our hearts and with all our soules There are but two great Commanders in the world God and the Devill All serve under th●se two Another Commander there is we call it mans Will and boasteth great things but an underling it is and subservient obeyed in reference to the other two who rule in chiefe so the question is single Who must be hearkened to or obeyed Not whether Gods Command or mans Will contrary thereunto Though this is the greatest question in the world and most stubbornly argued nor will it be answered no not when it is answered and fairly proposed to every mans consideration judge yet so it was answered more then sixteen hundred yeeres ago therefore Act. 14. 19 it cannot be the question now But this Whether God is to be obeyed or the Devill I confesse it is a strange question But it were a stranger answer and argued more then a distemper in the brain To say That the Devill is to be obeyed and God is to be resisted And yet so much thou must say if thou wilt accuse Israel now for taking up defensive Armes being charged thereunto in obedience to God and in defiance of the Devill for this is the very Case which we will propose in Israels Case fi●st and anon bring-it-up to our times and make every line then run parallell with our Case now This was Israels Case All true Israel once tooke shield and buckler came in so armed to rescue David Did they well It must be granted they did well and their bounden duty in rescuing David and in him themselves out of the hand of a cruell Lord and bloody Edomite Indeed it would argue more then indiscretion in us to censure all Israel at that point for taking up defensive Armes though we could give no reason for what they did But the sacred Text is cleare in the point That the Tribes came-in not with an intent to resist Saul their King no nor the Edomite neither and that a Malignant may think strange being not like but the same now with the Edomite then a bloody adversary to Israel and yet Israel not resist him But to resist the evill Spirit commanding in chiefe with both This evill Spirit commanded in Saul else he had not throwne a javelin a● David quickly after at his owne son Jonathan nor had Saul after all this sealed a Commission to an Edomite to execute the pleasure of his owne will upon Israel 2. And the evill Spirit ruled in the Edomite too else he had not executed Sauls Commission to destroy a City of Priests man and beast there The Tribes then came-in not to resist Saul but the perverse will in Saul acted by the evill Spirit upon Saul They took up defensive Armes to withstand the notorious violences the astings of Sauls and the Edomites wills acted by their evill Spirits These outrages

a Comedy with a marriage but quickly there is a turning of the Scene proves a Tragedy and ends in blood David was envyed by Saul for two Reasons 1. Because he had wrought salvation for Israel slaying Goliah the Philistine with his owne Sword 2. And because the Kingdome must be established in Davids house and Saul knew it therefore he envied David and pursued him 1 Sam. 23. 17 to the death but because bloody intentions have no pleasant appearance Saul vailed them over with sugered words and lovely actions he causeth many love-tokens to passe betwixt himselfe and David as if he purposed not only to affiance his daughter to David but marry himselfe unto him too See the depths of Sathan that evill spirit who wrought so effectually upon Saul All his words and actions were as soft and smooth as Oyle and Butter but inwardly drawne swords to slay David therewith But the people remote from the Court I say remote from the Court for Israel in and about the Court knew very well that Saul hated David and would have nailed his head and the wall together twise and once he would have served his Son Jonathan so too for being a friend to David Therefore I say Israel remote from the Court were wholly taken with things in appearance and so judged of Saul and David and of their actions so as if one of the two were too blame David was he And these colourable pretences stood Saul in some stead to vaile the peoples eyes for some time and not long for wicked and malicious intentions will work-out and discover themselves as five will and light will they will not be hid Saul plots against the righteous layes a snate here and there a snare for Davids soul The Righteous God discovers all and breaks the snare which enrageth Saul yet more the evill Spirit taking advantage thereby And now Saul pursues David with open a●e and sword in hand up to Naioth in Ramah and from thence to Nob. There he enters his foot first into bloud and goes up to the knees therein quickly for he takes an Edomite to his side gives him a Commission useth him as his right hand presently he with other Edomites with him for we cannot imagine that one should do that ●xecution alone smites a City of Priests slayes men women and sucklings there and beast also Where I shall note That all this is done by the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome for the Edomite accuseth the Priest Saul gives the Priest leave to answer for himselfe then execution is done according to the knowne Law which Saul and the Edomite have enacted We shall enquire farther into these matters when I shall handle them in order why Saul takes the Edomite to his side gave him a Commission being a knowne adversary to Is ael whereof I shall give a better account anon And then though we are concluded That the Lord is righteous and His Judgements are as the great deepe yet I shall search into them and findeo●● reason enough to satisfie us why the Lord suffers the Edomite to make such a slaughter in Israels Land and His owne Kingdome To do execution according to their wills upon those who did their du●y by direction from Gods mouth We shall see reason for all this though God needs not give account of His matters yet we shall see so He is pleased to do And now Davids History proves Tragicall indeed The Priests are slaine and David is strucken-at thorow the priests sides he sees Sauls sword now and against whom it was pointed So away he flies and to Keilah he comes in all haste expecting relief there for he had done the inhabitants such a piece of service as was very notable would have engaged them to David for ever had they been honest men But Keilites cannot consider what David had done for them they ponder not the kindnesse of God towards them nor mans kindnesse neither And now David having a strong hold over his head is resolved therein to defend himselfe but the Keilites proved treacherous they after their manner will betray David and he is warned thereof for a mighty Councellour was with David wheresoever he went and away he went from Keilah to a mountaine in the wildernesse of Ziph● Saul pursues his way and bloudy intentions and after he goes for he sought David every day but it followes God 〈◊〉 2● 1● delivered him not into his hands The Keilites would have done it so would the Ziphites too these would have delivered up David into Sauls hands yea but God would not do it and His is the overruling Hand These adversaries shall but shew themselves so shew their teeth unto David discover their treacherous hearts against him that is all they shall do more they would do but they cannot Therefore Psal 54. David makes a Psalme of praise to his God for that deliverance Here a great question will be proposed anon I do but give the heads here why the Tribes came-not-in all this while now they saw what was done to Nob what was offered to be done to Keilah and saw the sword was pointed directly to Davids throat why yet the Tribes came-not-in Some will Answer Conscience withheld them had they come-in to help David they had resisted their King I shall cleare the contrary in the third Section for it is the chiefe purpose thereof Other conceits there are I will passe them over in this place This is certaine Things were not ripe yet nor yet Gods time Davids straits must be yet greater then they were at Nob or when he was at Keilah and and there must be farther discoveries yet of Gods right hand with David and of his adversaries against him whereof towards the close of the Work Saul pursues David still thorow all the Thousands of Judah d 1 Sam. 23. 23. malice will draw bloud but it cannot yet will pursue to the death he and his men have cooped-up David and his men for they have compassed David round about Then God wrought wonderfully for David as His Name is and His Manner and the Earth must help David A Drossie earthy people shall help David shall work for his deliverance though enemies to him And though Saul has David as a prey in his hand yet the Lord sets up a Rock of separation betwixt David and Saul David is almost under Sauls nose within the reach of his speare and yet saul cannot reach him O wonderfull It is so indeed therefore 1 Sam. 23. 28. they called the place Sela-Hammahlekoth e as at this day 〈◊〉 takes no notice of this no not of Davids Rock in his way he 〈◊〉 David still and he pops-into a Cave all alone where David and all ●● m●n were the man shall run strange adventures that 〈◊〉 David and may escape once and again but beware the third 〈…〉 he that pursues David may fall into the Philistines hands a●on as Saul did Note againe how various and changeable