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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85769	The throne of David, or An exposition of the second of Samuell wherein is set downe the pattern of a pious and prudent Prince, and a clear type of of [sic] the Prince of Princes Christ Iesus the sonne of David and his spirituall kingdome by William Guild D.D. and minister of Gods word at King-Edward in Scotland.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1659 (1659)	Wing G2212; Thomason E984_8; ESTC R207805	271,425	357

s Exordium or beginning 2. A narration And 3. A conclusion 1. The Exordium has the place where David makes it and his gesture The place is the sanctuary now established in Sion into which now he comes and where the Ark was and to which the Lord had promised his presence Next his gesture was sitting which was to denote the settledness of his mind in uttering his oration Used therefore by Judges in hearing of parties and pronouncing sentences no wise to be taken exception against in David as unreverent more then in us in hearing of Gods Word and singing of Psalmes and sometimes in prayer as at meate and elswhere For the speciall thing that the Lord looks unto is the sincerity of the heart and truth in the inward parts as Psal 51. 6 ●s declared 2. The narration it selfe has 〈…〉 A depressing and lying low of David himselfe as he saies elswhere What is man that thou should'st so respect him c. And here What was he that the Lord not only should have brought him to such preferment but also promised the establishment of the Kingdome to his posterity which is not the manner of men to look so low to their inferiours and without their deserving from a low estate having no motive on their part to advance them and theirs to a high condition 2. Next to depressing of himselfe Vers 22. He advances God his greatness and goodness both towards himselfe and his people and thereafter from Vers 25. He petitions the Lord to establish his promises to him and his posterity which he acknowledges to be true and that he would of his good pleasure bless his house and to continue it before him And ●is he makes to be the conclusion of this forenamed thanksgiving OBSERVATIONS 1. WE see that David is not only thankfull in heart but also for the Lords benefits he expresses the same by Word that so by the whole man God may be worshipped as it is said we believe with the heart unto righteousness and confess with our mouth 's unto salvation 2. Vers 18. Where he saies Who am I c. We see that the Lords benefits move David to humility and dejection with Jacob the Godly ever acknowledging themselves unworthy of the least of all his mercies Gen. 32. 10. Whereas on the contrary the wicked are puft up with them as we see in Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh who said who is God that I should obey him And therefore the benefits of God to the Godly are blessings indeed whereas to the wicked they are turned into curses through their abuse of them unto pride excess tyrannie and the like 3. Vers 19. Where the Lord not only promises to establish the kingdome to David himselfe but also to his posterity after him we see the large bounty and goodness of God to his servants and that he does more to them then they could expect as we see in Jacobs profession Gen. 48. 11. In Josephs Davids Mordecai's Daniels and others their preferment And here in the promise to David concerning his posterity 4. Vers 20. Where David saies thou Lord knowest thy servant We see that the Lord is an omniscient God and who knowes particularly all his servants and subjects and the very secrets of their hearts The truth whereof in the hidden and inward parts he doth desire Psal 51. 6. And therefore David having this sincerity of heart can say what an hypocrite dare not thou Lord knowest thy 〈…〉 5. Vers 21. All the Lords promises and goodness to him 〈◊〉 it ascribes to free love only as the Lord himselfe speaks Hos 14. 4. Which we also should do and to no 〈◊〉 6. Vers 22. In Davids abasing of himselfe Vers 18. And extolling of God both his greatness and goodness here We see the disposition of the truly Godly they can never enough extoll acknowledge and praise the Lord as the spouse doth in the Canticles and David in the Psalmes Nor can they sufficiently lye low enough before him in the dust as we see Gen. 18. 27. 32. 10. In the Publican and parable of the Prodigall and others 7. This matchless and incomparable greatness and goodness of God David saies is according to that which he had heard with his eares shewing thereby unto us as the Apostle speaks that Faith comes by hearing and hearing is of the Word of God whereunto we should therefore hearken if we would be truly instructed and believe to salvation 8. Vers 23. If Gods goodness to his people be so extolled by David here for a corporall redemption from Egypt and from the Nations and their gods how much more should he be extolled by us Christians for that great and spirituall redemption of our soules from the tyrannie and bondage of Satan sinne and damnation and for our liberation who profess the Gospell from the tyrannie of Antichrist and his gross Idolatry 9. Vers 25. and 26. In speaking of Gods promises he ever makes mention that they are made to his servant Where we see who have right to the promises of God or may justly lay hold upon them towit only they who are Gods servants and who apply themselves to obey his precepts these only may apply to themselves his promises What God therefore has joyned together let us man separate 10. Vers 28. Where David saies to the Lord That he is that God whose Word is true we see that the Word of God is th● prop of the Godlies faith one jot whereof shall never fail no has ever failed towards his own 11. Vers 29. David closes up all with an earnest and reiterated petition for a blessing to himselfe and his house forever so that herein he is like Jacob who wrestled for the blessing and it should be likewise our earnest suit to the Lord that he would in like manner bestow his blessing upon us and ours and if we ge● this Fatherly blessing of his all will be well and we may say I is sufficient II SAM Chap. 8. and 1 CHRON. 18. IN this Chapter the Generall summe whereof is the amplification of Davids kingdome in his own time and by his own person are these particulars set down 1. The five warres that he had against the Philistines Moabites the King of Zobah the King of 〈◊〉 and the Edomites all whom he subdued and whereby his Empire was enlarged not only from Sichar the river in the South to Euphrates in the North but further almost from Sinai and mount Caucasus in Arabia Petra in the South even to mount Taurus and Armenia beyond Euphrates in the North. This is set down from the first to the 9. vers and in the 14. 2. Vers 9. and 10. Is set downe Toi King of Hamath his congratulatory message of Davids victory over the King of Zoba with the cause thereof and what gifts he sent unto David 3. Is set downe what David did with these gifts and all the rich spoiles of all the Nations which he subdued vers 11. and vers 15.

will but God by his preventing grace seeks David who had gone astray like a lost sheep and followes him with tender mercy to reclame him and bring him back againe therefore faies Gods people Lam. 5. 21. Turne thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Next the Lord doth this not immediatly but by the Ministry of his Prophet Nathan with which he did concurre by the secret operation of his spirit and converting grace which is his usuall dealing in reclaiming of sinners whereby he gives repentance as we see Act. 2. 37. And begets faith in their hearts Rom. 10. 17. The impulsive cause of this next to the forenamed efficient and instrumentall is Gods free love Hos 14. 4. Without yea against Davids deserving and the finall is the glory of the riches of Gods mercy and Davids salvation whom he takes as David did the sheep out of the Jawes of the Lyon so he out of the power and pawes of the divell The cause also wherefore the Lord did not send and admonish David sooner and before he did fall Is 1. That he would let him have a proof of his own naturall corruption and see how soone and fouly he would fall being left to himselfe and not being assisted by his speciall grace that so he might ever walk humbly watch carefully and pray for grace more earnestly 2. That others might with the greater feare and trembling work out their own salvation considering how so great a Cedar sell they being but low shrubs 3. That the greater glory and riches of his grace and mercy might appeare in his conversion and pardon tha● so none may dispaire either of pardon to themselves if they repent or of the conversion of others in Gods own time In this coming of Nathan to David and excepting so perilous a commission to so great a King with a sharp accusation reprehension and commination as we see his laudable and greater obedience to God So likewise we see 1. His prudence in the forming of his accusation and rebuke the scope whereof was to make David out of his own mouth to pronounce sentence against himselfe therefore he propones it by way of parable 2. We see his dexterity in the amplification 3. His courage and boldness in the application And 5. His fidelity in the denunciation In this parable which he uses David is compared with the rich man and his many wives and concubines to his many flocks and herds and Vriah is compared to the poore man and the ew-lamb to Bethshebah and the traveller is Davids lust that entered into his heart for satisfying whereof he would not take one of his own wives or concubines but the wi●e of Vriah To this generall as it was proponed David answers with an oath that he is worthy to die and restore the fourfold of the Lamb according to the Law Exod. 22. 1. Who had done this thing Whereupon the Prophet makes a plaine application saying Thou art the man and so makes David to have pronounced just judgment against himselfe The major of the argument he takes from David himselfe thou saies that such a wicked and merciless offender should die But thou art the man therefore thou shouldest die Hereafter he aggravates Davids sinne by many amplifications 1. From the argument of ingratitude in repetition of Gods benefits formerly bestowed upon him and his readiness to have bestowed more 2. After this he sets down the root of the sinne to be the contempt of God and his Word which he amplifies by the repetition and particular accusation of David of these crimes 1. That he had killed Vriah with the sword 2. Had taken his wife to be his And 3. That he had killed Vriah with the sword of the Children of Ammon the common enemy of the Lords people and made them to be the instruments of his cruelty and not having pitty on his own faithfull subject Whereupon he subjoynes the denunciation of the Lords punishing his sinne by lex talionis relative both to his sinnes of cruelty against Vriah as also his sinne of uncleanness with Bethsheba according to his threatning Deut. 28. 30. And as sad experience in the person and actions of Absolon afterwards proved whereunto he addes this aggravating of the punishment that what David did he did it secretly in sinning but what God should do it should be openly in the punishing OBSERVATIONS 1. IN this history of Davids rising by repentance after his fall we see the difference between the Godly and the wicked they fall but by grace they rise again but the wicked they fall and lye still in impenitency and careless security to their own destruction as we see in the examples of Cain the first world Sodome Pharaoh the obstinate Jewes Herode and others 2. Vers 1. In the Lords sending Nathan to David sleeping in security we see the Lords preventing mercy whereby like that sheapherd that left the 99. and went to seek the ●rayed sheep so likewise he seeks us first and turnes to us before we can turne to him as we see in his calling of Abraham out of Vz from Idolatry Mathew from receit of custome Zaccheus from an forged ca●iller and Paul from a persecutor And that as our Saviour saies to the obstinate Jewes How faine would I have gathered you as a Henne doth her Chickens under her wings but yee would not So how faine the Lord is to reclaime sinners 3. In the work of Davids conversion instrumentally by the Ministry of Nathan and efficatiously by the concurrance and cooperation of Gods spirit we see that the Ministry of the Word is the ordinary meanes by which the Lord will have men converted from sinne and damnation to righteousness and salvation so that it is a great blessing where men injoy these meanes and profit thereby as it is a great curse and punishment when either the Lord removes the candlestick thereof out of his place as he threatned Ephesus Rev. 2. 5. Or where the Ministry of the Word is contemned as we see 2 Chron. last 15. 16. Or where it is unprofitable as Jer. 8. 6. and 20. 8. 4. With the externall Ministry of the Word and meanes of conversion we should earnestly beseech God to concurre with the operation of his blessed spirit to make the same powerfull and thereby to work in our hearts repentance and faith else as Peter fished all night and caught nothing till Christ came so Peter may preach and not prevaile till the hearts of his hearers be pricked by him who opened the heard of Lydia while Paul did preach Act. 16. 14. For Paul may plant and Apollos water but God only giveth the increase And Nathan here might carry the Lords message of Davids eare but God only could thereby work upon 〈◊〉 heart 〈…〉 5. It is said here that the Lord sent Nathan to David where we observe the duty of all faithfull Ministers of Gods Word not to runne unsent or rush into that sacred calling as many do

now setled in a peaceable condition appoints under officers and rulers in his Court and Kingdome for the better government of all matters both in Church and Common-wealth OBSERVATIONS 1. DAvids still finds new troubles to arise after a rebellious sonne now a rebellious subject a verifying of the truth of that enmity which shall ever be between the seed of the woman the seed of the Serpent David also being herein a type of Christ the sonne of David who never did nor will want enemies to him even of such as are professed sonnes and subjects and whereby also is seen the verity of that Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all 2. Sheba is described to have been a Benjamite of Sauls kindred as Shimej likewise was and therefore carrying a lurking hatred against David so that to seditious and carnall minded malitious persons there wants nothing but a fit occasion and opportunity to vent and make their malice manifest 3. Another cause of Sheba's rebellion was his pride to be the head of a faction but which in the end drew him on to his own destruction before which pride ever goes as before honour goes humility which satanicall vide therefore every one should eschew as the mother of much mischiefe and the causer of great ruine in the end 4. Sheba a man of Belial blowes a trumpet of rebellion no marvell being such a one and as all seditious rebells ought to be accounted men of Belial But it is a sad matter when those who should be preachers of peace are trumpets of rebellion and who should lift up their voyces only as a trumpet to shew Gods people their transgressions as he speaketh by his Prophet Isaj 58. 1. That such should lift up their voyces as a trumpet to perswade to transgression 5. He who lately with the rest of Israel claimed ten parts in David as King disclaimes and disownes him now as having no part in him at all Thus will hypocrisy detect it selfe at last and what lay before under ashes in Sheba's heart bursts forth now in flames in his words and actions And so do many hypocrites now disclaime Christ by their deeds and shew that they have no part in him who profess him in their words and in their tide of Christians to have the chiefe part in him and in salvation 6. David before had raised his hand against a faithfull subject Vriah and therefore now a faithless subject raises his hand against him as a man sinneth so oftimes he is punished and in this also as a part is that doome denounced against David for the blood of Vriah fulfilled that the sword should never depart from his house so that one ●ot of Gods Word shall not fall to the ground unbeing performed 7. By way of contempt he calleth David the sonne of Jess as our Saviour was called a carpenters sonne Let not therefore these of lower degree grudge that they sometimes undergoe the lash of contemptible words or think it strange that they suffer the scourge of the tongue This being likewise to be adverted by those in authority that disdainfull and mutinous speeches savouring of miscontent are the smoke that goes before the flame of bursting forth in rebellion and therefore to be heeded 8. Sheba after disowning of Davids government over them bids Israell go to their tents to live as it were at liberty as it is said in the book of the Judges that there was no King in Israell in those daies and therefore every one did as he thought good Where we see the ordinary practise of the Authors of sedition● is to proclaime and pretend the liberty of a people from a just and loyall subjection while as they intend to bring them under the yoke of unjust usurpation 9. Vers 2. All Israell revolts from David and followes Sheba as nothing then is more unstable then a multitude who upon every light occasion or irritation are ready to affect a change and withdraw their necks from under the yoke of present authority so there is no levity nor love that can be security enough for Princes such as David shew lately to this people after his victory without the awfulness of power and the feare of justice 10. As Bees when they are once up in a swarme are ready to light upon every bough so the Israelites being stirred up by the late rebellion of Absolom are apt here also to follow a Sheba especially as is said finding nothing but clemency and Davids passing by their former revolt It is dangerous therefore for any state that the multitude should once know the way to insurrection the least tract whereof in this kind being easily made a beaten path without timely curbing and resisting beginnings 11. Though Israell rebell yet Judah continues loyall The Godly then in their greatest distresses or desertions shall never want some friends as were Obadiah and Ebedmelech neither shall the sonne of David ever be left destitute of some true subjects in the time of greatest Apostasies like 7000. in Israell that had not bowed to Baal and the two witnesses in the Revelation with the few that followed the lamb such also as was Athanasius and a few lurking persecuted Orthodox Christians in the time of prevailing Arrianisme and those in the time of prevailing Popery who were to be found in the midst of My●ticall Babylon in selfe before the time of their evocation and coming out of the same and wishing for the truth 12. Vers 3. David before he took course for suppressing Sheba beginneth a reformation in his own house by shutting up and sequestrating from his company thereafter those his concubines whom Absolom had de●iled The like of this did Jacob Gen. 35. when he was commanded by God to arise and go to Bethel in causing his houshold to out away the strange gods that were amongst them leaving hereby a Godly and good example to all men Princes and pastours who would reforme others to beginne the reformation of abuses at their own persons and families 13. Vers 4. Amasa being reconciled to David is imployed by him to assemble all Judah for the pursuit of Sheba It is no small wisdome then to make a friend of a foe and to ingage such a one who is newly reconciled wherein he may be confirmed by his own act 14. Joab having now Amasa imployed by David and set in his roome he smarts for a loyall disobedience in killing of Absolom and for his too peremptory and bold speech thereafter which he had to the King although had been a man of great meriting before and many atcheivments Whereby we see how slipry are Princes Courts how changeable is their favour and how unstable are places of preferment as we see in Phara●h who knew not Joseph in Ahasuerus favour towards Haman and Davids here towards his cousing Joab O happy then are they who are in favour with God whose love is Immutable and constant Joh. 15. 1. And in