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A97343	The Kings chronicle in two sections wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good kings of Iudah fully declared, with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon : this section containes the wayes and works of the bad kings, with marks the Holy Ghost hath set upon them, for the terrour of all those who walke in the wayes of Israel, and after the counsels of the house of Ahab which was to the destruction of Iudah / published by Hezekiah Woodvvard.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3494; ESTC R1678	91,401	115

each the other at the highest point the point of service and homage to their GOD It is legible to all the world that one of these walks as a Rebell most contrary to GOD and good-men Then the other doe walk as becometh obedient children It is not possible That they walking crosse in the same way should meet together in point of Rebellion But the Text is yet clearer The Priests forsake Iehoram nor the King And why forsake they Iehoram Because he had forsaken the LORD GOD of his Fathers * Gods command makes them deafe to the command of Iehoram Disobedience here is the truest obedience And the greatest Rebell here is the best Priest Looke ye The case is cleare for God has cleared it He has given us the clearest account of this matter that ever was given The King had forsaken his LORD paramount LORD of Lords The Priests must forsake Iehoram in his way or forsake GOD That they will not doe He is the Fountaine of their life their light their comfort He is their praise their feare for He is their God and He is ALL. They will not forsake Him A good God has done them good all their dayes nor can they forget or neglect the charge their good old Master layed upon them d 2 Chron. 19. 9 Deale couragiously in the worke and way of the LORD and the LORD shall be with you for He will be with the good e ver 12. They durst not follow Iehoram downe a precipice They knew also there was a pit at the bottome that had no bottome Let Iehoram venture his necke the Priests would not much lesse their eternall souls Should they follow him that had forsaken GOD GOD forbid Thus we see it cleare now as the beaten way that here was no resistance of the Kings Power for that is of GOD and for GOD holy iust and good Here was a resistance only of Iehorams power unholy unjust and naught mannaged cleane against GOD and forcing his people to rebell against Him too A resistance I say not against the officiall power of the King but the humane power of Iehoram a wicked and Idolatrous man and as Vxorious we have not a fitter word one that ruled not but let his Wife doe and rule all The Priests resisted not Iehorams power but his wives power tyranny rather for she did all after the Line and Law of Ahabs house whose Sister she was and Daughter of Omri and that was no Law to Israel but most crosse unto it They resisted the FORCEING will of Iehoram for it had no Reason whereby he would force the freest people in the world and the freest Thing in the world which can be no more imprisoned then can the Sunne-beame and as much without the verge of Iehorams juris-diction as a Starr is above his finger they resisted this Will and obeyed GODS Will Holy Holy Holy blessed for ever Thanks be to GOD Who has so cleared unto us the practise of these Priests and Levites in Jehorams dayes that he must say as a bold fellow did The sacred Text is seditious who will accuse those Priests and honest men of raising sedition because they forsooke the way of Jehoram when he had forsaken the LORD and His good way We must give men leave who have their eyes open and can discerne a pit before them to turn out of the way that leads to death and follow on in the way of the LORD Wee reade on 4. The Priests can doe Jehoram no more service he stops his eare to their word the word of GOD and bends his fist he will compell them to doe as he does they will not be forced therein let Jehoram goe his owne way as his wife leads him they will goe theirs and yet not theirs it is the way of the LORD So now the best flower of his Crowne is gone the honest Priests a good Kings best jewels The supporters of his Crowne were gone before judgement and justice his wife made him stampe those under his foot What will become of this man You shall heare anon and very quickly Judgment and justice are set under foot The Law of GOD is forsaken a contrary Law is forced now GOD will forsake Jehoram and He will take peace away with Him His Priests pack-after Then vengeance comes powring down for all will forsake Jehoram but the executioners of GODS justice The poorest King that was in the world and more miserable because the King of Judah Now the LORD for He has held His peace a great while is returning upon him will shatter Jehorams Crowne and even break the man to peeces He will hold him up to the wind and that shall carry away his Substance He will throw open the gates of his Kingdom He will take away his defence The weake shall come-in upon him and take the prey It is most observable how GOD pursues the quarrell of His Covenant against this man no King now in GODS account and of very small account in all Israel Iehoram had forsaken the Fountaine the LORD dashes to peeces all his Cisternes He makes holes in them all the comfort shall run out thence his Cisternes shall hold no water not a drop I meane the LORD confounds his strength and his counsell both nothing should do him good for besides the blood that he shed the violence he offered to the Law his forcing men to break it his advising with his wife a wicked woman Besides all this he forsooke the Lord he went out from the presence of the LORD as it is said of Cain Let me aske how can that be A man may forsake Gen 4. 16. the LORD as Iehoram did but how can he goe out from the presence of the LORD as Cain did Who is wholly in Heaven and wholly in Earth not by interchanged times but all at once and so David witnesseth If I be in Heaven thou art there if in Hell thou art there also How then must it be understood or what is the meaning that Iehoram as Cain went-out from the presence of the LORD This is the meaning Cain and so Iehoram and so every wicked man hardned in evill goes out from the presence of GOD that is from out of the King of Heavens high-way wherin only is safety and a Commission granted and sealed for his protection He is gone from under GODS roofe as I may say from out of His Angels hands he is left to himselfe delivered up into his owne hands he had better be delivered up to the Devill to be his owne Keeper disfavoured now and bereaved of GODS protection This was Iehorams case a forlorne and forsaken man for he hath forsaken GOD and now no man followes him but the Ministers of GODS vengeance And they come-in upon him from every quarter for the Defence is gone and the doores of his House and Kingdome lye open in comes the Adversaries GOD stirred up their spirit c ver 16. The Philistines

enquire now and have no answer Saul enquired of the LORD the ver 6. LORD answered him not neither by Dreames nor by Vrim nor by Trophets What will he doe now He is resolved to enquire of the Devill to see what he will say See here a sad case That man is in straits indeed who expects enlargement from the Devill But marke his complaint that he puts up to the Devill I am sore distressed he took a bad way for ver 15. help to seek for it from his greatest Enemy But what troubles him The Philistines make warre against me Nay that was not it so they did before the Moabites too the Ammonites Amalekites the Arabians also all the world warred against Israel therefore the trouble was not in that No but here it was this was the trouble and sore affliction which was like a Sword in his bowels yea like the gall of Aspes there GOD is departed FROM ME This was it I-cabod the Glory is gone the Nations are angry they will come upon the Land from every quarter Let them come they shall not distresse the Land with all their strength But does this follow God is departed from a Land then all created strength cannot safeguard the same if the Enemies were all wounded men yet they shall destroy all the Land and take the spoile And this was Sauls case God is departed from me The saddest complaint that ever was heard Consider well of it and you will say so too suppose the Adversary entring the doores treading upon the mans heele pangs are come upon him the paine as of a woman in travell his Soule is upon his lipps he is entring into the chambers of Death and his case is the same with Sauls here GOD is departed from him He answers him not Certainly neither teares nor sighs nor sobbs can point out this mans complaint the grievousnesse of this case exceeds all comparison And this was Sauls case then that it may not be our case anon Let us consider with all our hearts how equall and just it was that God should leave Saul at this time and afford him no answer God was with Saul prospered him exceedingly gave him glorious victories Saul was not aware of all this God answered him againe and againe told him what His expresse will was Saul rejected it now God departs from him and answers him no more A man will drive hard for comfort at such a time but he will mistake his way as Saul did his goes for the living to the dead nay worse from Esa 8. 16. God to the Devill he seekes answer there at the Devils Oracle And behold worse and worse Saul cannot endure to heare it but falls straight-way all along on the Earth c ver 20. When he sought counsell of God he was alwayes victorious Now that he sought counsell from the Oracle of the Devill this was the answer Who can be thy friend now God is thine enemy Thou didst not execute the fierce wrath of the Lord upon Amalek * A dangerous omission not to execute the wrath of the Lord upon His Churches Adversaries old fierce and treacherous therefore must that wrath be executed upon thee and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me c. And so it was for answerably it follows That both himselfe and his three sons with his neerest and faithfull servants were all slaughtered by the Philistines his body with the bodyes of his Sonnes as a spectacle of shame and dishonour were hung over the walls of Bethsan and there had remained till they had found buriall in the bowells of ravenous Birds had not the gratefull Gileadites of Jabes stolne their carcasses thence and interred them This was the end of Saul such as might tell all the world That now the blood of Gods Priests * 1 Sam. 22. 19 which Saul shed and of David which he would have shed was required and requited Let us note it more particularly What was his end very desperate The Battell went sore against him and he was sore wounded of the Archers Then he said unto his Armour-bearer draw thy Sword and thrust me * 1 Sam 31. 4. throw therewith His Armour-bearer refused Did he well in disobeying Yes for he disobeyed the desperate will of Saul which a man may doe and yet doe the greatest right See Childs Patrimony p. 36. and justice to the King Yes though he had held Saul from falling upon his own Sword and so restrained him from being a selfe-murtherer But Saul was left to himselfe and so he died he tooke a Sword and fell upon it A desperate execution He was an Enemy to good men while he lived and now he died he is an Enemy to himselfe He lived and died a murtherer he fell upon his own Sword and so Saul died His buriall we reade before His life death and buriall all three well agree together The greatest part of his life was spent in persuance of Gods friend see the Relation all along The last Act of his life was violence upon himselfe from his own hand He had driven David the head of his Tribes and after Oyle had been powred upon him and who so faithfull among all Sauls servants as David was d 1 Sam. 22. 14. from abiding in the Inheritance of the Lord Sauls head was taken off and his body exposed to the weather fastned to a wall no more accounted 1 Sam. 31. 9 10. of then a despised broken Idoll or a vessell wherein is no pleasure Saul had slaine the chiefe Priest and all his Fathers Ier. 22. 28. house then Priests of the Lord he had smitten their City with 1 Sam. 22. 16 17. the edge of the Sword and all therein with the edge of the Sword it is twice repeated to shew the bloodinesse of that ver 19. execution Now his lot shall fall-out unto him and this the portion of his measures All Sauls Sonnes are slaine he is Ier. 13. 25. written a Man Childlesse to all Generations some of his seed remained but none prospered to sit upon the Throne and Rule any more in Judah * Ier. 22. 30. We must repeate this once more for so I find it in the Sacred Writ because we may receive from it a sure instruction That we doe not transgresse against the ANGELL of the LORD nor reject His Word That we continue seeking Exod 23. 20. Counsell at His mouth and if He answer not yet wait if we die let us die seeking while we waite there is hope depart from Him there is no hope goe after other gods and then certaine destruction as to Saul So Saul died and his three Sonnes and all his House died together for his transgression which 1 Chro 10. 6. ver 13. he committed against the Lord even against the word of the Lord which he kept not and also for asking Counsell of one that had a familiar spirit to enquire of it

and how they have done it We reade on So soon as Amaziah felt himself strong and his Kingdom established He slew those servants that had killed the King his Father A good beginning in the execution of judgement and justice upon such murtherers that had killed the LORDS annoynted and their Master I may aske here as the LORD doth in another place Did not the Sonne doe judgement and justice d Jer. 22. 15. We must needs answer he did so he slew his servants that killed the King his Father It followes Then it was well with him d Jer. 22. 15. The note is The ready way a King can take to establish himselfe and his Kingdome is to seatter the wicked from his Throne and to bring the wheele over them Then by the rule of contraries To take the wicked 2 Chro. 25. 3. by the hand to countenance them To delight in them is the most compendious way to destroy the Throne to spread Prov. 20. 26. confusion over it Amaziah do's otherwise cleares his way to his Throne not only in point of justice but of wisdome and found discretion and that must be noted The people might have some jealousies touching the old Kings death he was a diseased man a very burden to himselfe he lay languishing his bones full of the sinnes of his youth might not the servants know their young Masters mind who was ready for the Crowne and they looked now upon the Sun-rising for it was night with the Father Amaziah now according to the counsell of the Heathen but it is good counsell will quit himselfe from the suspition of wickednesse all Israel should know That what ever Joash the King was yet he was his Father and he honoured him as a Father All Israel should see how his heart rose up against those bloudy villains that slew his Father by seeing him lift up his hand against them to cut them off from the Earth He was now stepping to his Throne and sitting down there He had had an uneasie seat of it had any drop of his Fathers blood bin there for his Cushion And there doubtles it had bin even the blood of his Father if he had not washed it clean out by cutting off such notable murtherers and so he cleared his owne Innocency his discretion and his Throne altogether And now this is not inconsiderable which follows he waited for a Crown twenty five years and in all that time it appears not That he was sick of the Father And he wore his Crown four years longer then he waited for it It is true The beauty of his Crown withered 15. years before he died as we shall reade anon he might thanke himself for that But this is it which I would put to the consideration of any man whether he has not observed some remarkable blessing accompanying an obedient child that had this good in him if no more he did honour his Parents Certainly the experience of all ages will evidence this truth That a dutifull child never went away without a Blessing nor a child stubborn and undutifull without a Curse Amaziah has cleared his Innocency and his honour at this point and how much he honoured his Father Nor was it possible for him to make all this cleare any other way to all Israel but by slaying those wicked Servants who slew their Master It follows Amaziah orders his MILITIA gathered JUDAH together a 2 Chron. 25. 5 made them Captaines over thousands c. He hired a hundred thousand mighty men out of Israel b ver 6. to strengthen his MILITIA But they could not strengthen him for GOD WAS NOT WITH ISRAEL c ver 7. We must set a mark there It is GODS being with a people that strengthens them Mighty men out of Israel could not strengthen JUDAH for GOD WAS NOT WITH ISRAEL no NOT WITH ALL THE CHILDREN of EPHRAIM Therefore if Ephraim stood with Judah Judahs King must fall before the enemy d ver 8. for GOD do's all He hath power to HELPE AND TO CAST DOWNE e ver 9. as the good Prophet said and so he advised Note the words well before we passe them over The LORD is not with ISRAEL not with ALL the children of EPHRAIM Why not with all them Because Ephraim willingly walked after the Commandement They served Devils 2 Chron. 25. 7. They humbled themselves before Calves They lifted-up their eyes and hearts to lying vanities as we to Crucifixes Hos 5. 11. therfore not with ALL the children of EPHRAIM And therfore said the good Prophet to the King Take Ephraim to thee if thou wilt make thy selfe strong with Ephraims Arme if it be thy will to doe it and BEE STRONG in thy own conceit FOR THE BATTELL but know ô King GOD IS NOT WITH ISRAEL for Israel is slidden backe as a back-sliding heifer d Hos 4. 16. NOT WITH ALL THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM for they are ioyned to Idols therefore shall they be oppressed ver 17. and broken in iudgement Doe not thinke then to strengthen thy selfe with a broken arme with those from whom GOD is departed Remember still That GOD He only makes a people stand or fall He has Power to helpe or to cast downe So Amaziah hearkning to the man of GOD though not content to loose the hundred Talents separated them to wit the Army that was come to him out of Ephraim to goe home againe f ver 10. So they returned home in great anger fell upon the Cities of Judah in the way smote three thousand of them and tooke much spoyle g ver 13. See how mischievous idolatrous Israel is to Judah They are a curse to Judah if they stay with him if according to the charge they be sent away they will pillage Judah and take away much spoyle You can never come fairly off from an idolatrous people Notwithstanding Amaziah hearkning to the Prophet and dismissing those Souldiers is the better strengthened for the warr he led forth his people smites his enemies ten thousand of them at a blow and prevailes over as many more carrying them away captives to the top of a Rock and thence he broke them to peeces h ver 11 12. That was a cruell execution Then returning from the flaughter he brought the gods along with him and set them up to be his gods bowed before such things which could not deliver their owne out of his ver 14. hands and so he broke himselfe and his Kingdome for this the Prophet rebuked this besotted King and the King reproached the good Prophet giving him a churlish and threatning answer Asking the Prophet who made him a ver 16. Counsellour and bidding him forbeare else he should feele his hand See how mad this King is upon his gods The Ier. 50. 38. Prophet reproved him from the Lord for falling downe before stocks and stones and he riseth up against the Prophet ready Eccles 4.