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A83947	Englands alarm to vvar against the Beast: by command from heaven, and his Israels example upon earth, comming-in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite: upon the same ground from Scripture and reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, to resist the prince ruling in the aire, and with the kings of the earth. In 3. sections: wherein, I. The history of Sauls war against David is so related ... that it relates ... to the three last yeeres affaires ... II. And to the bloudy execution of the Edomite in this war against the Parliament in Ireland and Lngland [sic] ever since. III. Here is also excellent reason given, why the tribes came not in sooner ... Also, to confirme the hearts and hands of the godly in their warfare ...		1643 (1643)	Wing E2941; Thomason E56_15; ESTC R20696	26,569	31

it was by the Devils motion that David had no more time then to b 1 Sam. 18. 10. slip away and avoid the place so the javeline was smote into the wall And though this was twice yet this was knowne in the Court onely perhaps to some dwellers hard by It is as true also and as cleare every whit in the sacred Text but the people inquire not into that not what is written not they That an evill Spirit from God c 1 Sam. 18. 10. came upon Saul and that is reported twice too And this evill Spirit was so active in Saul That whereas he might have rested and slept quietly in his owne house he runs about tanquam ostro percitus from place to place for he must run whom the Devill drives and is restlesse in the pursuit of Davids soule so as Saul might say and others also and all say truly and the people might beleeve it too That Saul did not go away from his Court but was d●i●●n away he was indeed for an evill Spirit did drive him which is clearly written But I say the people observe none of that No● could they heare what good Jonathan spake of David unto Saul his fa●●er Davids works have been to-thee-ward very good he did so and so and so ● ronght a great salvation for all Israel wherefore then wilt thou si● against innocent blood to slay David without a cause d 〈…〉 ● 4. 5. The people A●l Isr●el remote from the Court heard none of all this they heard what a salvation David had wrought and they might think as Jonathan did judging his fathers spirit by his owne that Saul seeing that salvation did rejoyce thou sawest it and didst rejoyce Verse 5. said Jonathan so the people might think too and that David was in all the blame and Saul in none at all That David had done some great matter against Saul because Saul did so persecute him so the people may think and the people might very well be so deluded for Saul did cover his malice with faire words as a potsheard may be covered with silver drosse e ●● 26. 23 go and tell David from me said Saul The King hath delight in thee and all his servants love thee f 1 Sam. 18. 22. Nor could there be greater shews nor more lively expressions then were in Saul towards David nor were his shews greater then were the reality of his actions as the people must understand them We do accouut Acts of meere Right and Justice to be Acts of most transcendent Grace and so we can flatter but indeed the Acts of Saul towards David could seeme no otherwise then Acts of most transcendent Grace and that was the account that David himselfe made of them he was sued unto twice to be the Kings Son-in-law and David was exceedingly taken with it seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Verse 23. Kings Son in-Law seeing that I am but a pore man and lightly esteemed It made David quite forget that unkingly act of throwing the javelin at him And the people must needs be taken as much with it also seeing a poore shepherd matched to a Kings Daughter for the people could not tell what Saul had said in his heart I will give him Verse 21. her that she may be a snare unto him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him Note it by the way That this very snare wherewith Saul intended to catch David took Saul himselfe as we may read 1 Sam. 31. 3. It is ominous and a point of desperate folly to lay a snare for David But this snare was contrived in the Court and that which was said was said in the heart whose language the people cannot understand till it be made legible by the hand So much as was in sight was an act of most transcendent Grace True indeed it is and it is legible that Saul spake to Jonathan his son bad 1 Sam. 19 1. councell to a young Prince therefore an Almighty hand staied Jonathan upright conversing with such a Father and amongst such Councellours and to all his servants as we heard That they should kill David But this was not legible to the people it was a secret from the Court where David had a good friend Jonathan who will tell him all he heares and what his fathers bloody intents are that so he might prevent them Saul goes on sends Messengers to Davids house to watch 1 Sam. 19. 11. him and to slay him in the morning but his wife makes an ill-favoured shift to save her husband and tells a lie to boote So David escaped Psalm 59. at that time and makes a Psalme of Thankesgiving to the LORD after his manner so many deliverances so many Psalmes to call to remembrance Then to Ramah he runnes and Saul sent Messengers as fast after him and then came himselfe thither we shall read more of that in due place And now that Saul is at Ramah David flies from thence and comes to Jonathan he and David are made sure together and fast one to the other Marke it by the way Saul had his Scout to spie as you shall heare anon The LORD provided for David too he had a Spie at Court a fast friend there close at Sauls elbow Be thou as David was upright with the LORD thou shalt have a Jonathan a true friend at Court that is certaine I proceed The Father observes great signes and tokens of their love so his anger kindled against Jonathan and reproacheth him shamefully it grieved Saul that 1 Sam. 20. 30 31. David liveth upon the ground that is the expression commands Jonathan to fetch him unto his Father for he shall surely die Jonathan will see reason for what he does he will not run out of the Court gates to fetch David to his Father because his Father said David shall die Jonathan was a good man notwithstanding the bloody words his ear dranke in from his Fathers mouth continually and his conversing daily with bloody Courtiers God He onely keeps the heart upright and from pollution even there where Satans throne is there Jonathan was a good man and an obedient Son notwithstanding Object Nay but he was not you may say for his Father a King commands and Jonathan a son disobeyes Ans It is seemingly so indeed and as we use to say That he is an obedient servant who obeyes his Lord never examining what is the command and charge nor how unjust as the Kings Attourney did obey commanded by his Master to accuse the six Members sitting in Parliament of high Treason This was an obedient servant say we but what says the Lord our great Master in heaven I think the Judgement Deut. 19. 19 20 21. from the LORD is That this wicked servant shal be drawn first and hanged after For ye shall do unto this evill servant as he had thought to have done unto his brother This was

with much more fore-head and lesse shame now than then as will appeare The King impeached the servant of the Lord then so the King does now The servant of the Lord made answer to his Master the clearest that ever was read The servants of the Lord do render as full and fair accompt of all their actions now Notwithstanding the king gives a Commission to the Edomite to smite all the Priests because one had done his duty then The King gives the Edomites the very same Commission now And so a City was smitten and burnt with fire then Cities and Townes yea two Kingdomes are smitten and burnt with fire now And yet the Tribes come-not-in no not yet Why I will tell you the reason for that in due time They did come-in then to help David And all true Israel will come-in anon to help the Church that we are sure of in obedience to God and in defiance of the Devill so soone as the Kings intentions shall be yet more clearly manifested our Edomites sins shall be full Israel shall sufficiently groane under such Task-Masters crying unto God against them c. when the Edomites bloudy intentions shall be yet more fully manifest and when the treachery of the Keilites and Ziphites for such we have amongst us shall be yet more fully discovered to the world and when by all this Israels sins shall be purged their hearts prepared their strong holds forts and brest works vaine confidences meant thereby are destroyed all and every one then Israels deliverance comes carried on as upon Eagles wings when Israel is very low in Davids Case their Ziglags smitten all vaine confidences their comforts taken thence and they have streng●●ened their hand in God Then as all Israel once came in to help David so will all true Christians now joyne hand and shoulder and heart together to help the Church but of this in the last place All along for I am entering into the particulars of the Story we shall read words and actions then words and actions now answering each other as face in water answers f●ce Then how heart answers heart the world will judge whether we will or no. I must observe ●ri●● H●stori●● 〈◊〉 ●● qui● falsi aud●●●●e q●●●●●ri 〈◊〉 aud●●● 〈◊〉 Ora● the Law of History I must not be so impudent as to speak what is false nor must I be so bold as to conceale the truth Specially being perswaded that the speaking out the truth now in such a Case as this may prevail with the Reader now more then if one came to him from the dead Again this comforts me all along in the things done then and now which run up so paralell each with other that yet I hope the destruction of the Kings house now will not answer the destruction then to Saul and his house It is true Never any man from that day to this houre persecu●ed David and prospered Compare it 1 Sam. 18. 17. with 31. 3. And very notable it is That Saul was wounded with those instruments of death in the enemies hand wherewith he would have had David to have been wounded and he perished by the very sword which he would have made drunk with bloud in Davids bowels 1 Sam. 31. 4. Nor was this all he would have destro●ed David that the Kingdom might not be established in Davids house and he slew all the Priests for Davids sake and so he ruined himselfe and his whole house for 1 Chron 10. 16. Saul died and his three sons and all his house died together from such a destruction the Lord deliver the King and his Kingdome And we hope the Lord will do it though the Kings hand now in the hands of bloudy and pernicious men is as rough now his intentions against the Church now are as bloudy now and as manifestly so as Sauls were against David yet we hope the destruction will not be such though God is the same and the Church as deare to him now as David was then We have onely this thred a weak support to beare up our hope herein That we read not Saul had any one Prophet nor any good man so much as is in shew with him who justified his way of persecution against David But the King is in the Schole of the Prophets has those by him eminently knowne all over the Christian world for Learning and Piety who if we beleeve heresay I beleeve it not do justifie the Kings way saying of it It is the right way and according to the Scriptures and they who are against that way do turne head against the Scripture of God the 13. to the Romans touching that matter This may be some inducement to the King to prosecute this stubborne way having such persons approving his doings The greater their sin if they do so by conniving at it or not contending against it with all their might But it may render the King more excusable a tanto then Saul was I will give a full and faire accompt of this way of persecution all the turnings and windings in it as Saul followed-on against David And we shall see how it runs-up all along with the way of persecution now And if this way prove it selfe according to the Rule and Line of the Word in any one degree or step of it If it hath any agreement with Peace Righteousnesse and Holinesse then all the true Israel of God are utterly unacquainted with the good Word of God and have erred concerning the way of Holinesse from the beginning of the world upward unto this day I will examine and ponder the Kings way what it was anciently and what it is now the severall steps and motions therein beginning with the first step as followes Chap. 2. Sauls bloudy intentions to David varnished over with faire Words and lovely Actions These are compared with Words and Actions now And so all the most Remarkable Passages and Acts of Grace which passed between the King and Parliament since they sate till the War brake-forth are Recorded and Weighed but found Light PEace is in Sauls tongue War is in his heart There he conceived mischiefe but yet that he might not make his wicked thoughts legible to all Israel that they might not break-out at his mouth nor at his fingers end as they have done before a few in the Court he vailed the peoples eyes by meanes we shall fully understand by and by He persecutes David with his tongue and hand too but so priva●ely and cunningly that the people remote from the Court could read no such thing but that Sauls tongue was for David and his hand too Nor would they en●er●aine a thought that Saul the chiefe Master and Dispencer of Justice would do unjustly True indeed it was That Saul had almost tantum non pinned or nailed Davids head and the wall together Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with his javeline a 1 Sam. 19. 10. And it was so violent and sudden for