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A53951 David and the Amalekite upon the death of Saul a sermon preached on Jan. 30, 1682, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Edward Pelling ... Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1683 (1683) Wing P1077; ESTC R683 18,608 35

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come to the Crown 3. That when the Men were come David used them rather as a Friendly Retinue then as a Formidable Army to secure his own Life from the hands of Pick-thanks who otherwise might be ready to shed his Bloud to curry favour with Saul and without Saul's Order and Commission 4. That when David imployed his Retinue to Military purposes and after a Military manner it was against those People who were Enemies to Israel and who by the Command of God were to be destroyed and even then too David acted under King Achish as his chief Commissioner and General 5. That from the beginning to the end of the whole matter though David had so many Swords at his command yet he never once Resisted his own Dread Soveraign but only Fled from him and Fled with more security then he could have done otherwise Nay though David had two the fairest opportunities of making Saul his Prisoner and of taking away his Life one in the Cave at Engedi 1 Sam. 24. and another on the Hill of Hachilah 1 Sam. 26. yet still he forbore all manner of violence at both times using this Heroick and Loyal Expression The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lord 's Anointed to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the Anointed of the Lord. 2. Whence I proceed to the next conclusion that the Destruction of the Lord 's Anointed the stretching forth the hand to Invade his Life is of all other acts of violence the most Fearful and Horrid Crime The Lord forbid that I should do this thing saith David for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless As he said to Abishai 1 Sam. 26. 9. For Subjects to draw Bloud out of the Sacred Heart of their Prince to cut his Head off as though he had not been Anointed with Oyl to Invade the Life of Gods Vice-gerent and especially to do it as did the Regicides of this day not in a Cave but before the Face of the Sun and at his own Palace door and all this with the utmost Pomp of Villany under colour of Justice by formal Proceedings after a Judicial manner with an unheard of Pageantry of Conscience and Religion After they had taken off his Crown and as it were cut off his Hands after they had Hunted him from his House to the Camp and from Field to Field at last to Arraign the best of Kings as a Malefactor to Condemn him as a Tyrant to Dragg him to the Scaffold as a Traitor and there to cut off his Neck as a Dog Blessed Jesu Since the foundations of the World were laid the like instance with all its circumstances was never known no Humane History can afford us a Parallel nothing that can come near it unless it be that instance lately observed of Conradine the King of Naples who after such a manner but upon different pretensions was Dr. Turners's Sermon before the King 1680 1. Arraigned and Murdered in his own City upon a Scaffold And as that was done by pretending Catholicks so this was done by pretending Protestants They set the Copy and these took it out and in as Bloudy a Character so true is that observation that there was hardly so much as a pair of Sheers between the● no more difference indeed than between Judas and Iscariot When David had privily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe though it was only with a design to let him see that he had been in his Power his Heart soon Smote him as if he had made a Breach upon Gods Law and had been guilty of a very Vnworthy and Disloyal Act for the Oyl upon a Kings Head like the Ointment upon the Head of Aaron that descended upon his skirts makes even his Vestments Sacred But with what Agonies and Convulsions would his Soul have been Tortured had the King of Israel been mocked by such a Juncto of Jews as on this day Butcher'd the King of England and in the name of the Lord vied for Wickedness with all the Devils in Hell The story of Saul's Death is a very sad relation all the Parts and Appurtenances thereof together with Saul's own Guilt and the Sin of his Armour-bearer and this Amalekite being rightly considered But yet there are some passages in the story which it may not be amiss for us to observe 1. Concerning the Armour-bearer Saul Commanded him to draw his Sword and to thrust him through therewith being desirous rather to Dye by the hands of his own Servant than to be Abused by the Uncircumcised Philistines But notwithstanding the Kings own Command the Armour-bearer refused to hearken in that particular he durst not obey the King to the Destruction of Majesty he was sore afraid saith the Text 1 Sam. 31. 4. Read on now to the next v. and you will find that this Armour-bearer feared not to Kill himself though he was sore afraid to Kill his Soveraign By which instance it is clear not only that he valued his Prince his Life far above his own but also that he thought it much a more pardonable Sin to be a self Murderer than to be a Regicide though tempted to be so by his Soveraigns Command Doubtless for a Man to Kill himself is a very Horrid Sin because it is his last Act whereby in Humane probability he hurryeth himself off the Earth into Hell Yet this Armour-bearer chose rather to Dye with the Guilt of his own Bloud upon his hands than to Live Guilty of the Bloud of the Lord 's Anointed and before he would be such a Traitor ran a sad venture of being Damned for ever by being Felo de se 2. And then as for the Amalekite that did effectually help on the Destruction of Saul though he did it not of Malice but upon Saul's intreaty though he did it when Saul was now half breathless and when he was sure otherwise to be Killed by the Philistines though he did it to rid him of his present Fear and Pains and struck him more like a Friend than an Enemy doing no other than what Saul himself had already done in part yet this Regicides Conscience seems to have been troubled presently at an excessive rate His breast was filled with Remorse and Anguish and Bitterness of Spirit so that he could not but put on a Mournful and Penitential Habit for he ran to David with his Clothes Rent and with Earth upon his Head Confessing by his Actions that he had committed an Abominable Crime when his Lying Tongue pretended that he had done a meritorious Act. And yet which is observable this Regicide was no Subject of Saul's but a Stranger an Alien from the Common-wealth of Israel an Amalekite Lord What Soul is able I do not say to Aggravate but to Measure the Guilt of the Regicides of this day Regicides that acted not only without any pretended Commands or Allowance of Just Authority though all the Powers on