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A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

forced P. Mart. in loc I referre them to the learned Martyr who would know more of this for satisfaction 6 King Davids commendation of this deceased Prince Abner in my Text in which something is spoken to the living Know yee not c. Something is spoken of the Dead There is a Prince and a Great man fallen 7 Davids ingenuous confession I am this day weak though anointed King Of which now something more by way of explication no more by way of inquiry The Explication To the living King David directs his speech Know yee not i.e. as Carthusian rightly Ignorare non debetis c. you who are Chieftains in Israel cannot ought not to bee such strangers in Israel our breach is great like the Sea who can heal it Know yee not It highly concerns you to know it to bee much affected with it and afflicted for it and with tears of blood to deplore it Verba sensus connotant affectus There is a Prince The Scripture which speaks no Treason gives this title to many There is the eternal Prince our Lord Jesus Christ Isa 9.6 The Father of eternity the Prince of Peace Some of the Rabbines understand that of Hezekiah wee must of Christ hee is our peace Ephes 2.2 John 14 There is the infernal Prince Satan so stiled once and again in holy writ Princes have their Territories so Satan hath his they have their subjects and hee his Their Thrones and hee his they have their homage and peculiar honour done unto them Satan hath his Rev. 13.4 hee is indeed a Prince but a Captive Prince under pains and chains of darknesse hee can neither do what he would nor shall hee ever do what hee can potestas est sed sub potestate as the Father speaks There is some order even amongst the Devils the damned spirits in Hell There are spiritual Princes every childe of God is such a Prince In some Nations all the Kings children are called Princes the first born only in others in the Kingdome of grace and glory every Subject is a Soveraign Every one resembles the child of a King as Zeba and Zalmunna said to Gideon of his Brethren consider their original they are born of the blood royal his Sons who is King of Kings Or their possessions All is theirs Dan. 7.27 Rev. 21.7 all under Heaven and in Heaven 's theirs fidelibus totus mundus est divitiarum Aug Ep. 89 as Augustin speaks They have the power of Princes Are guarded as Princes are adorned as Princes entertained as Princes they feed on Christ cloathed as Princes with a Stole of Immortality and garments of praise There are saecular Princes such are the first masculine branches which spring from the stem of Majesty Abner was none such How then could hee promerit this honourable title of a Prince I answer Persons in great authority and of great quality The worthy the wealthy ones of a Nation in sacred story are stiled Kings and Princes Gen. 14.8 Isa 23.7 Gen 40.1.37 p. 36 It is said of Tyrus her Merchants were Princes and her Traffickers the honourable men of the earth Thus Abner was a Prince a Prince and a Great man A Great man prudentia strenuitate ac virtutibus ad bellatorem spectantibus saith Carthusian in four respects hee deserved the stile of Great man In respect of his great allyance In respect of his great influence In respect of his great attendance and in respect of his high promotion and office We have read and heard of Alexander the Great and Pompey the Great and Charles the Great and of Herod the Great and here of Abner the Great Know yee not that there is a Prince and a Great man fallen Fallen i.e. dead I shall not stand now to discourse of Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plotin Enn●ad lib. 7 p. 62 lib. 4. c. 30 as Plotinus speaks To dye is for the soul to put off the body as doth the body put off its cloaths David the Oratour at Abners Funeral calls it a Fall which came by a fall Fallen this day Not without an Emphasis it deserves an hand in the Margent This day The design hee had now on foot the project upon the Anvile was the reduction of all Israel to David to yeeld subjection to his royal Scepter about this work hee was the man imployed but in ipso limine impingere is matter of saddest lamentation a noble work was now on Abners Loom Israel must bee reduced Abner is the instrument if his skill run parallel with his will or the event answer his intent twice happy Israel thrice happy Abner but in this nick of time and juncture of affairs This Prince and project too are fallen in Israel And I am this day weak Tenellus as Tirinus renders it Sicut ramusculus tener de Novo plantatus as Nichol. de Lyra like a tender plant that hath not yet taken root and therefore stand in much need of Abners help to establish mee in the Throne The Seventy read it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cognatus so near allyed to Joab I cannot do justice and judgement on him Others read it and the original well bears it weak i.e. of small power to execute justice and Judgement on Joab and Abishai the sons of Zerviah who was the Kings Sister They were principal men had a mighty influence upon the tribe of Judah and the rest of the tribes were not at this time in confederacy It is disputed by Interpreters whether David did well in delaying the execution of Justice upon those wilful murtherers They who condemn this act say that wilful murtherers should bee taken from the very horns of the Altar if they flye to it for shelter and sanctuary and bee put to death and that the guilt of blood lay now upon the King and Kingdome during Joabs reprieve There was from God an absolute preremptory command Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood bee shed For demurs there is no warrant in the Word They who excuse this act and apologize for the King say To have punished Joab immediately might have been extreamly prejudicial to King and Kingdome It is said when Honorius the Emperour had cut off Stillico his General that hee had cut off his own hands hee never did worthy act after Joabs punishment was not remitted but respited The Law of Executing murtherers doth binde to take the fittest time not to all times Not to determine but without further explication of the termes I shall now pass to such instructions or conclusions as flow naturally from the Text and are most seasonable for this occasion they bee in number three Observ 1 Princes are not priviledged from falling nor Great men from dying Observ 2 It is every mans duty to take notice of deeply to bee affected with and bitterly to weep over and lament the falls of Princes and Great men especially if they bee good men Observ 3 It is a lawful

offereth praise glorifies mee Psal 50. ult 4 By your Fruitfulness under the dews and droppings of his Word under the whippings of his Rod John 15.8 the more graces are multiplied the more God is glorified 5 By your Faithfulness in sufferings and in services 1 Pet. 4.14.16 To give up your names to Christ and afterwards to make defection and apostatize from Christ is matter of dishonour to him if any man draw back his soul hath no pleasure in him Christus ipse tacite accusatur quasi iniquus but not to stand on these 6 By your contentednesse with him alone and your unsatisfiednesse with any thing you have from him while you are without him This sets the Crown upon his head 7 By your forwardnesse to and uprightnesse in the Administration of Justice and Judgement when the Angels came with power to judge Babylon Vide Rib. in loc Rev. 18.1,2 It is said the earth was lightened with his glory There is so much beauty and brightnesse in works of Justice and Judgement that they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Glory of the Lord Numb 14.21 God was glorious as well in destroying the Egyptians as delivering the Israelites 8 God himself hath commanded it peruse the Text Do it vers 7. Here is his Sic volo sic jubeo his will is the rule of all reason It is disputed in the Schools whether God doth at any time give out a command which hee himself would not have obeyed and why hee doth so is queried as in Abrahams case Gen. 22. Estius in Sent. lib. 1. Distinct 47. Parag. 3. Lombard produceth another which Estius rejects as impertinent They conclude it with a non modo fatendum est non omnia fieri velle deum quae praecepit sed interdum cum velle non fieri quod praecepit atque ideo praecipere ne fiat Certainly what here concerns the execution of Justice ought conscionably to bee obeyed because by him commanded that was a prerogative command but this is not and his Will is reason sufficient why you should obey Authoritas praecipientis est ratio praecepti Hee said do it who hath authority to command you to do it and ability to consume you if it bee not done hee is resolved Justice shall bee done and highly provoked if Justice bee not done this is the Will of God Et sufficit pro universis rationibus Deus Vult Reason 9. 9 Justice must bee executed that your oathes may not bee violated To fear an oath is the character of a good man The violation of an oath is so hainous a transgression that some of the School-men peremptorily conclude Perjury a greater sin than Homicide Biel. lib. 3. Qu. 39. Dub. 4. or Murther though Biel doth not assent thereto yet hee confesseth it is a sin to bee punished by the Judges especially then in Judges Heathens dare not adventure to infringe or violate their oaths though guided only by the pur-blinde light of natural conscience Attillius Regulus preferred the obligation and observation of his Oath before the safety and preservation of his life hee made choice of that which was indeed more eligible to bee punished than to bee perjured The Carthaginians being ingaged to the Romans chose rather to entombe themselves in flames of fire which they had kindled in the Market-place than to break their sacred vows Notable is that of Pocylides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But once more and then wee shall let this branch passe Reason 10. 10 This is the end for which you are impowred and constituted The Queen of Sheba though an Heathen could tell that therefore God made Solomon King because hee loved Israel and that this was his work to do Justice and Judgement 2 Sam. 8.15 2 Chron. 9.8 shee was convinced that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by him Kings raign and that for this very end Salomon was set on the Throne of Israel to dispose of the affairs of his Kingdome with Judgement wisely and in righteousnesse justly Judges that will not do judgement have nomen inane and are guilty of crimen immane Such sin against the very nature and end of their function Remember then my Lords that Instrumentum eatenus est Instrumentum quatenus est inusu And as the Philosophers speak Frustranea est ea potentia quae non reducitur in actum i.e. quando debet quando potest you have authority put into your hands to do judgement and you have one opportunity more to do judgement up then and bee doing receive not that power and authority in vain 2 Branch●… In the Administration of Justice you must TAKE HEED what yee do do it exactly This is the second Branch of the Observation 't is de modo how you are to dispose and dispatch manage and transact the affairs in hand Not to multiply Arguments Take these ten why you should Take heed what you do and do all exactly Reason 1. First Because you are the Deputies the Vice-gerents the Ministers of a most holy just jealous and exact God Hee is exact in all his wayes Vide Tirin in locum works promises as fearful in praises so faithful in promises both in making and in keeping them hee is ever as good as his word sometimes better exact in rewarding in punishing in all his understanding is infinite hee knows what to do when and how to do all things Now then my Lords A Lapide in locum you are his Ministers non tam mei quam Dei est is vicarii a Deo scilicet per me constituti Judices est is populi sui and therefore it highly concerns you to take heed what you do read the seventh verse There is no iniquity in the Lord your God All Righteousnesse is in him nothing at all of unrighteousnesse in him let there bee none in you All his officers shall bee peace and his exactors Righteousnesse it is in the abstract and you know Abstractum est forma concreti it hath more in it and carries more away with it It is his pleasure that all his should bee like him It is your duty to meditate frequently on and to conform your selves to that perfect pattern of your soveraign Lords exemplary Justice This should bee the first step of your care Vasquez disput 116. cap. 4 5. Suarez Metaph 30. Sect. 6. it will bee the last rise of your honour The divine Attributes are neither really distinct from the divine Essence nor one from another his mercy is the same with his Justice and both God himself A man may bee a man and yet bee unjust Justice is not quid constitutivum but should the most high bee unjust hee could not bee God Justice is no quality in him but the very nature of him There is a Maxime of state The King can do no wrong Certainly they may and in some respects did Thom. Bradw lib. 1. de causa dei God can

out of which wound it is said his guts came as Julians did Sine caede vulnere pauci Descendunt Reges Fourthly What was the cause or what might bee the occasion of this Prince or great mans Fall in Israel It was Jobs suspition may it admit so faire a construction that Abner would prove an Ambodexter Abner had revolted from Ishbosheth because hee had questioned him for the familiar usage of one of Sauls Concubines wee may not conceal the truth Abner was deeply guilty if of no more of a treacherous inconstancy If Ishbosheth had no true title to the Crown Abner sinned in maintaining it if hee had Abner sinned in forsaking it Tostatus saith that hee knew the Kingdome did not de jure belong to Ishbosheth but to David Suppose his former undertaking was evil yet to desert him eo modo hoc ex injusto furore as Tostatus to withdraw his professed allegiance upon a private revenge was to take a lewd leave of an evil action In a word Joab thinks it is no trusting a Turn-coat Or it was pretended revenge for the blood of his Brother Asahel verse 27. Joab was Ish dammim a man of bloods Tostatus disputes the question whether Joab sinned in slaying Abner Vide Tosta● in loc hee concludes positively Hee killed the man without a just cause hee killed the man without a just call hee had no authority to do it non erat Judex ad infligendum illi mortem hee slew him modo in honesto and hee broke the peace granted him by the King The pride of Joabs heart put him upon this horrid and hellish fact Mallem hic primus esse quam Romae secundus Caesar de oppidulo quodam dum Alpes transiret Hee was afraid least Abner by this important service should grow too great in the Kings favour It was cursed pride that put Zimri on to murther Elah his Lord and Master It was pride that made Athaliah to destroy all the seed Royal of the house of Judah It was pride that put Herod on to seek the blood of Jesus and it was pride in which Joab dipt his dagger wherewith Abner is slain Nebuchadnezzars pride ushered in the destruction of the Assyrian Monarchy Cyrus his pride made way for the overthrow of the Babylonian Monarchy Alexanders pride was the cause of the Annihilation of the Persian Monarchy The Roman Commanders by their pride occasioned the subversion of the Grecian Monarchy as it is by some observed It was pride that put the Pharisees on to persecute Christ and it was pride in Joab that curtaild Abners daies Joab would have none so deep in the Kings books as himself no corrivall with him in honours and preferments Joab suspected his reputation would bee blasted his fame eclipsed his service lesse regarded If Abners design bee now accomplished This Magnum Nihil of Honour hee is so tender and jealous of that hee is resolved Abner shall die Nec quemquam jam ferre potest Caesarve priorem Pompeiusve parem Fifthly What was the fruit or the sequel of this Prince and Great mans Fall I shall hint briefly 1 Davids vindication of his own innocency vers 28. I and my Kingdome are guiltless before the Lord q. d. I am not to bee accused of nor charged with this bloody fact It is lawful for the most humble man to vindicate and plead his own innocency when hee sees others may suspect him It is lawful for a man to do himself open right when others do him open wrong David might say as once Augustin did Mihi sufficit conscientia mea bona vobis vero necessaria est fama mea Sometimes the subjects go mad and Kings are sent to Bedlam Though that bee mostly true Delirant reges c. David will have the fault laid at Joabs door and therefore Apologizeth for himself as well hee might 2 Davids fearful Imprecation verse 28. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue or that is a Leper c. All sore and heavy Judgements the Issue makes the body to pine away the Leprosy makes the body loathsome both make it unclean so that it must not come into the Congregation the Gout or Palsey make a living man as if hee were dead To Fall by the sword of an enemy a sad Judgement 2 Sam. 24. and so to bee starved to death for want of bread Tostatus disputes the question An peccavit David maledicendo Joab hee answers negatively and saith licet maledicere quando ille qui maledicit est Judex imponit maledictionem in partem paenae The Rabbines are too rash who say that David was too much carried on with violent passions in this direful dreadful imprecation upon Joab and all his Fathers house and therefore say all these evils fell upon some of his own posterity and race Rehoboam had an issue Uzziah was a Leper Asa was pained in his feet Josiah fell by the sword c. It is granted cursing men are commonly cursed men but David was not here moved by humane passion but by a Prophetick spirit 3 The Declaration of Joabs cowardice and Abners valour Died Abner as a fool died hee died not as a fool nor as a felon nor as a fugitive No hee was suddenly and treacherously surprized Had Joab and Abner tryed it out in open field and fight Abner no doubt had given evident discoveries of his dexterity and activity of the couragiousnesse of his heart and noblenesse of his spirit 4 Abners honourable Interment or Incineration vers 32. They buried Abner in Hebron loco revera honorifico saith P. Martyr R. Solomon thinks Adam and Eve Abraham and Sarah Vide Cartwright electa Targumico Rabbinica in Gen. 23.2 Pe●er in Gen. 23. p. 663. Isaac and Rebecca Jacob and Lea were buried there Adricomius Pererius Borcardus and others write much of it It was the principal royal City belonging to Judah hereabouts was that great entertainment made the covert of a Tree was the dining room the ground the Table Abraham the Caterer Sarah the Cook Veal and welcome the cheer Angels in the shape of men Christ in the notion of an Angel the guests Adrichom ● Theatrum Terrae Sanctae p. 49. fig. 145 Aug. de Cur. ger pro mortuis A comely burial is an office of humanity a duty of charity a great blessing it is so promised and prized in sacred writ the want thereof as a curse is threatned Jer. 22.19 Tully calls Clodius his body infoelix cadaver because it was cast out unburied Abners was not so Never man was killed more cowardly and interred more honourably 5 King Davids and all Israels bitter lamentation vers 31. They lift up their voices and wept The sweet singer in Israel is now chief mourner in Israel To honour Prince Abner forgetting his royal soveraignty and Kingly dignity David himself doth follow the Beere it is disputed by Interpreters whether Davids tears were real or hypocritical faigned and