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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

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 the Prince of Princes CHRIST IESVS the Sonne of DAVID and his Spirituall Kingdome By WILLIAM GUILD D. D. and Minister of Gods word at King Edward in Scotland OXFORD Printed by W. HALL for ROB. BLAGRAVE Anno Salutis 1659. A Letter written in order to the now mentioned Society or little Common-wealth By some well affected persons whose hearts and hands have already joyned therein to stir up all such who are truely sensible of the poor and needy to carry on this so necessary and charitable a work HAving not only considered the poverty afflictions and streights of many well minded people Together with the evil consequences that arise from the corrupt customs and waies of most employments and the general disorder proceeding from riches and poverty But also the way propounded by the endeavours of our friend Peter Cornelius to rectifie all such and many other inconveniences by bringing together a fit suitable and well qualified people into one Houshold government or little Common-wealth wherein every one may keep his propriety and be employed in some work or other as he shall be fit without being oppressed as is more at large expressed in a Platform to that purpose Whereupon we are resolved judgeing it to be necessary and our duty to promote so good and pious a work with the assistance of other mercifull and rational men to lay such a foundation as may tend to the relief of the oppressed the preserving of such as are in danger of falling into snares and the increase of understanding and mutuall love as also the exemplary ordering of such acts as may be accomplished by prudential charity And hereunto we do earnestly invite all Persons that have a willing mind to do good according to their abilities some by their Wisdom and Councell others by money and credit or by both as they shall be able and free that so a stock may be raised for the carrying on of this good and beneficial work To which end we have subscribed our names and the summs of money which we are willing to give Hoping that all such as are for so general a work will upon due consideration likewise subscribe for such a summe of money as they are willing to give towards the accomplishment of the Premisses and meet together to confer and order the said summes of moneys into the hands of some trusty Persons for the use and benefit of the Society only and what else shall be found conducing to the perfecting of this work till the Society can subsist of it self in order which we believe may soon be from the credible information of divers persons relating that many hundreds in Transilvania Hungaria and the Paltsgraves Countrey from a small beginning have attained not only to a very comfortable life among themselves but also ability of doing much good to others not of their Society subscribed towards the raysing of a Stock I. S. 100 l. W. R. 100 l. To the Reader Christian Reader THe ensuing Commentary was about a year since sent unto me out of Scotland it was intended by the Authour to have been published with a Preface or Dedication to my self Being a stranger unto me some mistaken apprehensions of me which may easily happen at such a distance it seems put him on that resolution after the finishing of the whole work and prefixing the Epistle mentioned unto it with his own hand the Authour himself dying his Relict sent the Book and Epistle with a Letter of her own fignifying the commands of her dying Husband to that purpose unto me both his Epistle and her Letter as expressing many things concerning me which I dare not own or arrogate to my selfe much lesse be a means of publishing them to the world I thought meet to suppresse But for the Treatise it self finding it written with perspicuity and clearnesse handling a subject of great and delightful variety with a choice mixture of spirituall morall and politicall observations tempered by a good and sound judgment unto common capacities and not knowing but that the onely copy of it was in my hand that publick good might not by the learned Author's respect to me be hindred I thought meet to further the publication of it which being offered I make bold to recommend it to the Christian Reader as I do him also in the perusall of it to the grace of him who is able to make it usefull John Owen THE THRONE of David Or An exposition of the second book of Samuel Wherein is set down the pattern of a pious and prudent prince and a cleare type of the prince of princes Christ Jesus the sonne of David and of his spirituall Kingdome THE PREFACE TO omit any generall or prolix discourse concerning the utility and delectation of historie and in speciall of these registred in Holy Scripture and to come in particular to this present History contained in this second of Samuel In it we have the pattern of a pious and prudent prince and in the estate of the Kingdome of Israel under David we have typified the estate of the Church militant under Christ Jesus But before we come to the particular explication of this Book we will speak 1. Of the Author and penman thereof 2. Of the inscription and reason thereof 3. Of the Subject and matter thereof and 4. The utility and profit thereof First then there is no doubt of the Author but as is said of the whole Scripture in generall so of this in particular that the same is by divine inspiration and that the spirit of God is the Author and indyter thereof But as for the penman some suppose that the same was written by the Prophets Gad and Nathan who lived in the reign of David Others that Samuel from whom it hath the denomination was the writer of it till the 25. chapter where his death is recorded and the rest supplied by some of the forenamed Prophets But the most probable is thought to be that it was the office of the high-priest to register the History of the Jewish church and what fell out every one in his own time But herein seeing Scripture is silent we need not curiously inquire further hereof 2. Concerning the title and inscription The Hebrews give this reason thereof because they containe the whole course of the life of Samuel and of these two Kings Saul and David whom he according to Gods ordinance anointed But the Greeks as the 70. or septuagint whom Jerome and most part of the Latines do follow rejecting the inscription of these two bookes from Samuel they call these two the first and second book of the Kings because of the life and acts of the Kings that are set down therein to wit Saul and David as in the other two bookes that followes the lives and acts of the rest of the Kings of

that promise made to Abraham of the holy Land of his seed in whom all Nations should be blessed and multiplying thereof Of the whole possession of that land made to Israel in the desert deferred till the reigne of David of the reducing of the people out of Babylon after 70 yeares Davids inauguration here and as in our owne daies is commonly found in the experience of the estate of many good men and Princes 2. In the example of David patiently abiding the Lords leasure and in adversity neither doubting nor grudging neither using any unlawfull means we have the generall rule of the behaviour that the Godly should learne when they find themselves in the like condition in good causes which God hath promised to bless and in following of the same albeit the promise be slowly performed and the middes be troublesome let them not think that God hath not a care over them neither grudg as do impatient men neither doubt as do the weak in faith neither use unlawfull seconds as do the worldlings neither despaire as do the reprobate but following the examples of David Abraham Moses Joshua Daniel the Apostles and such assure themselves upon the conclusion of Christ that heaven and earth shall perish but one jot of Gods promise shall not alter and remember what Paul saith Rom. 8. 39. That nothing whatsoever is able to separate Gods chosen Children from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus and that all things in the end shall work together for their good who love him 3. Vers 1. The whole people are moved by Gods instinction to offer their voluntary obedience to David and albeit they had the word amongst them yet it was not followed because they wanted the inward perswader till now who is the holy Ghost so that the kingdome of David riseth not by violence and compulsion but by the inward perswasion of the holy Spirit whereupon we inferre in the generall literally and then mistically that the hearts of subjects to temporall princes are in the Lords hands to harden or mollifie them as he thinketh expedient to shew in them his favour or his wrath to their superiours and therefore if they will have obedience of their subjects let them subject their scepters to the obedience of God for he will honour them that honourt him and they that despise him shall be despised and therefore as the tiranny of these in authority is Gods punishment for the sinnes of inferiours so the rebellion of inferiours is a token of Gods ire against their Magistrates 4. As this is true in Davids temporall so it is true in Christs spirituall kingdome for it is not the externall hearing that moveth the heart albeit that thereby the incredulous be made inexcusable but it is the inward operation of the Holy Ghost which inwardly perswadeth and draweth the heart as the Loadstone doth the iron to the obedience of the Lords Word and so erecteth the kingdome of Christ into the soule of man No marvell then that the greatest part of the world remaine in infidelity and wickedness albeit Gods Word plentifully sounds in their eares because as a sound only there it evanisheth And as a feeling power descendeth not in the heart to take root downewards and bring forth fruit upwards as Christ therefore spoke of his body Iohn 6. 63. So it is the spirit which quickneth the Word without the same profiteth nothing 5. In this occasion and election or inauguration of David we inferre the generall rule of electing of Magistrates as well in regard of his qualities and forme of election as of the end wherefore he is to be elected As for his qualities 1. He must not be a stranger in birth much less in religion but must be of a conjunction naturall and spirituall with them whom he governeth otherwise there can be no sympathy nor symbolizing between ●hem 2. He must be able to governe which is called here to leade out and in Next the forme of his election should be by common and voluntary consent according to the constitution of the state and oath or obligation of right administration the rule whereof should be the Law of God and positive constitutions of the realme And last the end should be to feed the people caring that they be spiritually fed in the food of life and temporally that they be not spoiled or bereft of their meanes of the life corporall to be their guider protector father patron and to have a regard to all their necessities as the good pastour hath to his sheep and the Father to his family 6. By all this history it is evident that he is rather compelled and urged by the people to reigne over them then they are urged by him to give unto him the government for he saw that it was not so much honos as onus teaching hereby all those who are to undertake any function in Church or Commonwealth not to runne before they be sent nor to thrust themselves in at the window till they be lawfully let in at the doore and as they have the inward and effective calling of God fiting them for the work so to expect the outward and declarative calling of man suiting them to the work The Lord will therefore give wisdome and skill to Bezaleel and Aholiab but Moses must call them 7. Vers 3. The covenant of mutuall observance of duty which they make it is before the Lord who did heare not only the words of their league but did see the sincerity of their hearts therein and whom they acknowledged not only as a solemne witness to beare record but as a just judge and severe revenger of the breach So before this same Lord we ought to consider that both we and our secretest actions yea the very thoughts of our hearts are patent and as in his presence whose al-seeing eye beholdeth all things watchfully we ought to walk fearing to speak or do either wickedly or hypocritically seeing as Elisha said to Gehezi his heart goeth ever with us and he will make no other but our own wickedness to find us out 8. Vers 4. In the Chronology of Davids life and reigne as we see that the people get a great benefit from God in having a Prince given them of ripe age experience and ability to governe being 30 yeare old when he began to reigne where women and Children are given in Gods wrath so on the other part we see also that long life and a prosperous government in a Princes person is a great blessing likewise and old age as Salomon saith is a Crowne of Glory when it is found in the way of righteousness therefore honour thy Father and Mother saith the Lord that thy daies may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God hath given thee the long life is a reward and the contrary as a punishment is denounced against the house of Eli 1 Sam. 2. 32. II. SAM Chap. 5. from the 6. Verse to the 11. THe first