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B13857	Contemplations vpon the historie of the old Testament. The seuenth volume. In two bookes. By Ios. Hall D.D.; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 7	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1623 (1623)	STC 12658.5; ESTC S103672	123,026	533

so did not they sticke to reproue Kings for his sake Thus much freedome they must leaue to their successors that wee may not spare the vices of them whose persons we must spare Iustly is Iehoram turn'd off to the Prophets of his father and the Prophets of his mother It is but right and equall that those which we haue made the comfort and stay of our peace should be the refuge of our extremitie If our prosperitie haue made the world our God how worthily shall our death-bed be choaked with this exprobration Neither would the case beare an Apologie nor the time an expostulation Iehoram cannot excuse he can complaine he findes that now three Kings three Kingdomes are at the mercy of one Prophet it was time for him to speak faire nothing sounds from him but lamentations and intreaties Nay for the Lord hath called these three Kings together to deliuer them into the hand of Moab Iehoram hath so much grace as to confesse the impotencie of those hee had trusted and the power of that God whom hee had neglected Euery sinner cannot see and acknowledge the hand of God in his sufferings Already hath the distressed Prince gained something by this misery None complaines so much as he none feeles so much as he All the rest suffer for him therefore he suffers in them all The man of God who well sees the in-sufficiency of Iehorams humiliation layes on yet more load As the Lord liueth before whom I stand Surely were it not that I regard the presence of Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah I would not looke toward thee nor see thee Behold the double Spirit of Elijah the master was not more bold with the father than the seruant was with the sonne Elisha was a subiect and a Prophet Hee must say that as a Prophet which hee might not as a subiect As a Prophet he would not haue lookt at him whom as a subiect hee would haue bowed to It is one thing when God speakes by him another when he speakes of himselfe That it might well appeare his dislike of sinne stood with his honour of Soueraigntie Iehoshaphat goes away with that respect which Iehoram missed No lesse doth God and his Prophet regard religious sinceritie than they abhorre Idolatry and profanenesse What shall not be done for a Iehoshaphat For his sake shall those two other Princes and their vast Armies liue and preuaile Edom and Israel whether single or conioyned had perished by the drought of the desert by the sword of Moah One Iehoshaphat giues them both life victory It is in the power of one good man to oblige a world wee receiue true though insensible fauours from the presence of the righteous Next to being good it is happy to conuerse with them that are so if we bee not bettered by their example wee are blest by their protection Who wonders not to heare a Prophet call for a Minstrell in the midst of that mournfull distresse of Israel and Iudah Who would not haue expected his charge of teares and prayers rather than of Musicke How vnseasonable are songs to an heauy heart It was not for their eares it was for his owne bosome that Elisha called for Musicke that his spirits after their zealous agitation might be sweetly composed and put into a meet temper for receiuing the calme visions of God Perhaps it was some holy Leuite that followed the Campe of Iehoshaphat whose minstrelsie was required for so sacred a purpose None but a quiet breast is capable of diuine Reuelations Nothing is more powerfull to settle a troubled heart than a melodious harmony The Spirit of prophesie was not the more inuited the Prophets Spirit was the better disposed by pleasing sounds The same God that will reueale his will to the Prophet suggests this demand Bring me a Minstrell How many say thus when they would put God from them Profane mirth wanton musicke debauches the soule and makes no lesse roome for the vncleane Spirit than spirituall melodie doth for the Diuine No Prophet had euer the Spirit at command The hand of the Minstrell can do nothing without the hand of the Lord Whiles the Musicke sounds in the eare God speakes to the heart of Elisha Thus saith the Lord Make this valley full of ditches Ye shall not see wind neither shall ye see raine yet that valley shall be full of water c. To see wind and raine in the height of that drought would haue seemed as wonderfull as pleasing but to see abundance of water without wind or raine was yet more miraculous I know not how the sight of the meanes abates our admiration of the effect Where no causes can be found out we are forced to confesse omnipotency Elijah releeued Israel with water but it was out of the cloudes and those cloudes rose from the sea but whence Elisha shall fetch it is not more maruellous than secret All that euening all that night must the faith of Israel and Iudah be exercised with expectation At the houre of the morning sacrifice no sooner did the bloud of that Oblation gush forth than the streames of waters gushed forth into their new channels and filled the Countrey with a refreshing moisture Elijah fetcht downe his fire at the houre of the euening sacrifice Elisha fetcht vp his water at the houre of the morning sacrifice God giues respect to his owne houres for the encouragement of our obseruation If his wisdome hath set vs any peculiar times we cannot keepe them without a blessing The deuotions of all true Iewes all the world ouer were in that houre combined How seasonably doth the wisdome of God picke out that instant wherein he might at once answer both Elishaes prophesie and his peoples prayers The Prophet hath assured the Kings not of water onely but of victory Moab heares of enemies and is addressed to warre Their owne error shall cut their throats they rise soone enough to beguile themselues the beames of the rising Sunne glistering vpon those vaporous and vnexpected waters carried in the eies of some Moabites a semblance of bloud a few eies were enough to fill all eares with a false noise the deceiued sense mis-carries the imagination This is bloud the Kings are surely slaine and they haue smitten one another now therefore Moab to the spoile Ciuill broyles giue iust aduantage to a common enemy Therefore must the Camps be spoiled because the Kings haue smitten each other Those that shall bee deceiued are giuen ouer to credulitie The Moabites doe not examine either the conceit or the report but flie in confusedly vpon the Camp of Israel whom they finde too late to haue no enemies but themselues As if death would not haue hastened enough to them they come to fetch it they come to challenge it It seizeth vpon them vnauoidably they are smitten their Cities razed their Lands marred their Wells stopped their trees felled as if God meant to waste them but once No onsets are so furious as the

Contemplations VPON THE HISTORIE of the old TESTAMENT THE SEVENTH VOLVME In two Bookes By IOS HALL D. D. LONDON Printed by J. H●●land for Nath. Butter 1623. Contemplations VPON THE OLD TESTAMENT The 18th Booke Wherein are Rehoboam Ieroboam The seduced Prophet Ieroboams Wife Asa Elijah with the Sareptan Elijah with the Baalites Elijah running before Ahab flying from Iezebel TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IAMES LORD HAYE Baron of Saley Viscount Doncaster Earle of Carlile one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie COVNSELL Right Honourable I Cannot but thus gratulate to you your happy returne from your many and noble imployments which haue made you some yeeres a stranger at home and so renowned abroad that all the better parts of Europe know and honour your name no lesse than if you had beene borne theirs Neither is any of them so sauage as not to say when they heare mention of your worth that Vertue is a thousand Escuchions If now your short breathing-time may allow your Lordship the freedome of quiet holy thoughts cast your eyes vpon Israel and Iudah vpon the Kings and Prophets of both in such beneficiall varietie as prophane historie shall promise in vaine Your Lordship shall see Rehoboam following Salomon in nothing but his seat and his fall as much more wilfull than his father as lesse wise all head no heart losing those ten Tribes with a churlish breath whom he would and might not recouer with bloud Ieroboam as crafty as wicked plotting a reuolt creating a Religion to his state marring Israelites to make subiects branded in his name smitten in his hand in his loynes You shall see a faithfull messenger of God after miraculous proofe of his courage fidelity power good nature paying deare for a little circumstance of credulous disobedience The lion is sent to call for his bloud as the price of his forbidden harbour You shall see the blinde Prophet descrying the disguise of a Queene the iudgement of the King the remouall of a Prince too good for Ieroboams heire You shall see the right stock of Royall succession flourishing in Asa whiles that true heire of Dauid though not without some blemishes of infirmity inherits a perfect heart purges his kingdome of Sodomy of Idolatry not balking sinne euen where he honoured nature You shall see the wonder of Prophets Elijah opening and shutting heauen as his priuate chest catored-for by the Rauens nor lesse miraculously catoring for the Sareptan contesting with Ahab confronting the Baalites speaking both fire and water from heauen in one euening meekely lacquaying his Soueraigne weakely flying from Iezabel fed supernaturally by Angels hid in the rocke of Horeb confirmed by those dreadfull apparitions that had confounded some other casting his mantle vpon his homely successor and by the touch of that garment turning him from a plough-man to a Prophet But what doe I withhold your Lordship in the bare heads of this insuing discourse In all these your piercing eies shall easily see beyond mine make my thoughts but a station for a further discouery Your Lordships obseruation hath studied men more than bookes heere it shall study God more than men That of bookes hath made you full that of men iudicious this of God shall make you holy and happy Hitherto shall euer tend the wishes and indeuours of Your Lordships humbly deuoted in all faithfull obseruance IOS HALL Contemplations REHOBOAM WHo would not but haue looked that seuen hundred wiues and three hundred concubines should haue furnished Salomons Palace with choise of heires and haue peopled Israel with royall issue and now behold Salomon hath by all these but one Sonne and him by an Ammonitesse Many a poore man hath an house-full of children by one wife whiles this great King hath but one sonne by many house-fulls of wiues Fertility is not from the meanes but from the author It was for Salomon that Dauid sung of old Lo children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the wombe is his reward How oft doth God deny this heritage of heires where he giues the largest heritage of lands and giues most of these liuing possessions where he giues least of the dead that his blessings may bee acknowledged free vnto both entayled vpon neither As the greatest persons cannot giue themselues children so the wisest cannot giue their children wisdome Was it not of Rehoboam that Salomon said I hated all my labour which I had taken vnder the Sunne because I should leaue it vnto the man that shall bee after mee and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a foole Yet shall he rule ouer all my labour wherein I haue laboured and shewed my selfe wise vnder the Sunne All Israel found that Salomons wit was not propagated Many a foole hath had a wiser sonne than this wisest father Amongst many sonnes it is no newes to finde some one defectiue Salomon hath but one sonne and he no miracle of wisdome God giues purposely so eminent an instance to teach men to looke vp to heauen both for heires and graces Salomon was both the King of Israel and the father of Rehoboam when hee was scarce out of his childhood Rehoboam enters into the kingdome at a ripe age yet Salomon was the man and Rehoboam the childe Age is no iust measure of wisdome There are beardlesse sages and gray-headed children Not the ancient are wise but the wise is ancient Israel wanted not many thousands that were wiser than Rehoboam Yet because they knew him to be the sonne of Salomon no man makes question of his gouernment In the case of succession into Kingdomes we may not looke into the qualities of the person but into the right So secure is Salomon of the peoples fidelity to Dauids seed that he followes not his fathers example in setting his sonne by him in his owne throne here was no danger of a riuality to inforce it no eminency in the sonne to merit it It sufficeth him to know that no bond can bee surer than the naturall allegeance of subiects I doe not finde that the following Kings stood vpon the confirmation of their people but as those that knew the way to their throne ascended those steps without aid As yet the soueraignty of Dauids house was greene and vnsetled Israel therefore doth not now come to attend Rehoboam but Rehoboam goes vp to meet Israel They come not to his Ierusalem but he goes to their Shechem To Shechem were all Israel come to make him King If loyalty drew them together why not rather to Ierusalem there the maiestie of his fathers Temple the magnificence of his palace the verie stones in those walles besides the strength of his guard had pleaded strongly for their subiection Shechem had beene many waies fatall was euery way incommodious It is an infinite helpe or disaduantage that arises from circumstances The very place puts Israel in minde of a rebellion There Abimelech had raised vp his treacherous vsurpation ouer and against