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england_n	king_n	queen_n	sister_n	4,332	5	8.7879	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15403	An harmonie vpon the second booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode and order obserued vpon the first booke, these speciall things are obserued vpon euerie chapter. The diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controversies briefly touched, and morall collections applyed. VVherein neere fowre hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie, and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis and Exodus.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1614 (1614)	STC 25680; ESTC S118200	222,462	162

with mature deliberation and the third is an halter such was their doctrine that ended with despaire but Amnon here neglected indeed the right meanes namely these first in time to haue resisted his affections and not to haue giuen way vnto them Pellican secondly to haue giuen himselfe to abstinence and some honest exercises which might haue occupied his mind then by some lawfull matrimoniall loue to haue ouercome his vnlawfull lust and to haue praied vnto God for grace Mar. 4. Quest. v. 5. Of Ionadabs wicked counsell 1. Ionadab is called here Amnons freind but indeed he was his foe for a true friend will neither giue dishonest counsell nor yet do any dishonest thing for his freind Bor. 2. He is also called cacham a wise and prudent man but it was carnall not spirituall wisedome such a wise man as the Prophet speaketh of they are wise to doe euill but to doe well they haue no knowledge Ierem. 4.22 3. For in wise counsell two things must be considered that both the end of a mans counsell be good and that the meanes thereunto tending are also honest and lawfull but Ionadabs counsell failed in both Mart. 4. Such flattering counsellers abound in Princes courts who are readie for their owne aduancement to serue the humors of great men and by their craftie heads doe deuise how to compasse their desire Pellican 5. Quest. v. 12. Of Thamars reasons and perswasions to Amnon 1. First shee alleadgeth that it was and vnusuall crime in Israel which he offered either to corrupt a virgin or to commit fornication out of mariage much more for one to corrupt his sister Pellican 2. Thou she sheweth the inconuenience in respect of himselfe hee should be counted as one of the fooles of Israel as a lewd and wicked person Genevens and a● a man vnmeete to succeed his father in the kingdome beeing his eldest sonne Mart. 3. In respect of her selfe it would be a perpetuall shame vnto her she could not hide or conceale that lewdnesse if she should be with child by him Osiander 4. Then from entreating she falleth to aduise and counsell him that he would speake vnto her father to giue her vnto him But all these reasons would not content or satisfie his wicked mind he still proceeded in his vile purpose to haue his will of her 5. Now whereas the law was that the virgin which was forced in the towne should crie out Deut. 22.24 it is like that Thamar cried out but none would come to deliuer her or that Amnon kept her from crying Some thinke that she held her peace because she would not bring her brother to shame or vpon hope of marriage but hope of marriage she could haue none because it was against the Law and shee was more to respect her owne fame and honest name then her brothers 6. Quest. v. 23. Why Thamar saith hee will not denie me vnto thee seeing it was against the Law 1. Lyranus with some others is of opinion that Thamar was not Dauids daughter by Maacah but that she was with child by another when Dauid tooke her captiue in battell and so Thamar beeing neither Amnons sister by father or mother might be Amnons wife But this is not like for Amnon called her his sister v. 6. and it seemeth that Thamar was borne after Absalom as the phrase giueth when Absalom had a sister or when to Absalom was a sister v. 1. Iun. D. Chimhi thinketh also that Thamar was Dauids daughter but conceiued by him before she was conuerted to the faith of Israel 2. Pellican giueth this exposition that Thamar secretly vnderstood this condition si fieri posset if it might be Dauid would not denie her to him if it could not be done by marriage much more vnlawfull was it out of mariage 3. But it is more like that by this meanes she did dilationem quaerere seeke delaies onely and to gaine time Iun. vt conatum adolescentis eluderet to put off the young mans purpose Osiand Mart. For if she might haue beene Amnons wife hee needed not to haue languished after her and haue vsed such indirect meanes and he should haue married her after or paied her dowrie neither of which was done Mar. 7. Quest. Whether this degree of consanguinitie or any oth●r might haue beene dispensed with By occasion of these words of Thamar to Amnon which sound as though Dauid might haue giuen Thamar to Amnon to wife occasion i● ministred briefly to consider whether any of the forbidden degrees may be dispensed with 1. The Popes Canonists and Canonicall Diuines doe hold Contr. The degrees forbidden Leuit 19.20 can not be dispensed with that the prohibition onely is naturall and morall betweene the father and the daughter the mother and the sonne that their marriage cannot be dispensed with because they are one flesh but all the other degrees may be dispensed with for Adams sonnes tooke their sisters to wiues Iacob married two sisters Sarah was Abrahams neece Iacobed Moses mother was Amram his fathers aunt So it is their opinion that the Pope may dispense with all degrees sauing betweene the father and daughter mother and sonne as Caietan And the practise of the Papall Church hath been accordingly In Thom. 2.2 qu. 154. art 9. Emmanuel king of Portugall married two sisters Catharine Queene of England two brothers Ferdinandus King of Naples by licence from Pope Al●xand●r the 6. married his owne Aunt And Martin● the ● did dispense with the marriage of the germane and naturall sister 2. But this is a most grosse opinion 1. All these prohibitions are morall and natuturall for the Cananites were cast out for such abominations who were not bound to Moses Iudicialls 2. The necessitie of those times dispensed with those first marriages when there were no other to marrie with and God in respect of that necessitie gaue a relaxation saying increase and multiplie 3. The facts of the fathers cannot be excused from all imperfection yet it was Iaacobs intent to marri● but one Laban by his subtiltie imposed the other vpon him 4. These were the sinnes of the Heathen Among the Persians the sonnes married with their mothers the daughters with their fathers it was lawfull among the Athenians for one to marrie his sister Berosus writeth that the Gyants of the old world refrained not such marriages Caracalla said to his mother in law O that it were lawfull the impudent woman answered si libet licet imperator dat leges non accipit if you li●t it is lawfull for an Emperor giueth laws to others he taketh none himselfe ex Martyr 8. Quest. v. 15. Of Amnons hatred of his sister 1. Aristotle in his Problemes giueth this reason why inordinate loue is many times turned to hatred as Potiphars wife when she could not haue her desire hated Ioseph as much as she loued him and Nero after hee had abused his owne mother so hated her that he killed her The reason hereof Philosophers yeeld to be this