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A18017	Schelomonocham, or King Solomon his solace Containing (among many thinges of right worthy request) King Solomon his politie, his true repentance, and finally his salvation, first presented to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie, and afterward published.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1606 (1606)	STC 4666; ESTC S107560	299,642	386

promises before made doe pointe and belong properly to the most holy Messiah 2. Sam. 7.12 and not to any man besides him as they doe indeede yet to declare that David the Kinges Father did not wholy exclude Solomon his Sonne borne of Bethsabe but did so vnderstand the wordes spoken in this case as that literally the same Solomon was the persō especially chosē and appointed to build that materiall house therefore he said I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the Arke of the covenant of the Lorde for the footestoole of our God 1. Chro. 28.2 had made ready for the building But god said to mee thou shalt not build an house for my name because thou hast beene a man of warre and hast shedde bloud Againe And he said vnto mee Solomon thy Sonne Verse 6. he shall build me an house courtes for I have chosen him to bee my Sonne I wil be his father Then turning himselfe to Solomon Verse 9. hee saide And thou Solomon my Sonne know thou the Lorde of thy fathers serve him with a pure heart with a willing minde Againe Take heede now for the Lord hath chosen thee to build him an house of a Sanctuary be strong therefore shew thy selfe a man Verse 10. And in this sense did K. Solomon also take the wordes of the Lord which Nathan the prophet brought him as himselfe testified when sending to Hyram the Tyrian king for further provision he said 1. King 5.2 Thou knowest that David my father could not build an house vnto the name of Iehovah his God for the warres which were about him on every side vntill the Lorde put them vnder the soales of his feete But not Iehovah my God hath given me rest on every side so that their is neither adversary nor evil to resist And behold I am determined to build an house vnto the name of Iehovah my God as Iehovah spake vnto David my father saying Thy sonne whome I will set vpon thy seate for thee he shall build an house vnto my name 2 Chro. 6.10 And that Solomon did this performe accordingly himselfe testified againe saying I am risen vp in the roome of David my father am set on the seat of Israel as Iehovah promised have built an house for the name of Iehovah the God of Israel For indeed 1. Kings 6.1 2. Chro. 3.1 in the fower hundreth and fower-score yeer after that our fathers came out of the land of Aegipt and in the fowrth yeere of the raigne of King Solomon vpon Israel Aprill 1. Kings 6 38. October in the moneth * Ziff which is the second in our accoūt he began to build this house and in the eleuenth yeere in the moneth * Bul which is the eight was the same house finished throughout all the partes thereof according to the fashion of it and so was hee seuen yeeres in the building of it that in the mount Moriah in the place where first Cain and Abel and afterward Noah offered their sacrifices yea and in the Alley of Arnon there wherein David when hee saw the Angell with his drawne Sworde was commaunded to reare his altar Neuerthelesse to signifie that both this person and his worke had a further and higher aime then either wee coulde see with the eye or comprehend in thought much lesse vtter with the tongue as the thinges of God are such as passe all mens vnderstanding wee hearde what the King himselfe saide when hee dedicated the house vnto God And will God in very deede said hee dwell with men on earth Beholde heaven 2 Chro. 6.18 and the heaven above all heavens may not containe him How much lesse the house which I have built For the King as hee had the wisedome of the holy Spirite knew right well that this shoulde prefigurate the Church of the holy Messiah and that not onely the same which is or shal bee militant on earth but that spirituall Temple of God in the soule and minde of man yea and also shoulde expresse as by a liuely Simbole the societie triumphant and glorious in heauen Gen. 6.15 Exod. 25 26 Therefore as hee alluded therein to Noah in the building of the Arke and to Moses in the framing of the Tabernacle 2. Sam. 5.8.9 1. Chro. 28.11.19 and to David in the institution and disposing of the Tower of Zion and followed the proportion which his Father David had plotted and prescribed so hee expressed not onely his earnest loue and heartie zeale that hee had to his God but his desire to display and set foorth the wonderful perfection and excellent glory of that Church Neither yet did hee shewe himselfe either too curious or too costly or ouer glorious or superstitious or superfluous in any one ornament or in the least title or thing whatsoeuer in and about the same house albeit both the worke was magnificent of great charge and labour and the ornamentes in and about the same rare pretious and many in number For truely as this materiall Temple signifieth that Temple of Messiah whether misticall in the Congregation or spirituall in the faithfull soule or glorious in heaven so the ornamentes and diuers and sundry functions and garnishings and glory of the same expresse and declare vnto vs the noble personages functions orders ministeries vertues of and in the same For there bee godly Kinges and Princes Prophets Priestes Ministers Iudges Magistrates and many wise and holy persons both men and women there is the wisedome the iudgement the iustifications the sanctifications the perfections and in a word all the graces of the Saincts and there are the angels heauenly spirites Abraham Isaak Iacob Moses Iosuah and other with the glory of the children of God But ye happily desire that some certaine particulars might be produced in this comparison To speake of all it wold both weary me cōfound your hearing they are so many wonderful yea beyond the knowledge of man as yet neither is it meete that wee should * inuestigate ouer curiously Deut 29 29. and sift out too precisely that which is laid vp in the diuine counsail vntil the happy time of the Messiah who then and not before shall tell vs al thinges yea things hidden from the beginning In the meane time it is enough that we belieue this that the law shall go foorth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem The Church is like an house And first as ye haue heard and doe perceiue the Church of the Messiah is prefigured and expressed wholy by an house and that conueniently in regarde of the partes orders and vse thereof But this house hath two generall partes whereof the one is that in the which aswell the people as the priestes do enter wherein they pray they teach they heare they offer sacrifice they praise God they talke and declare their holy deuotion and obedience to God

sometimes sharpe chidings hath their place to doe good in them that feare God as some precious stones shine the better bring steeped in sharpe vinegar some others when they bee boyled in soft oyle There be some which though they be in place The necessitie of good admonitions either dare not or list not to tell admonish or reprooue the mighty and rich vntill they sée them through folly fall downe to the ground and Fortune sternely frowne at them then perchance but neuer before they wil tel them of that which now it is too late for thē to auoyd resembling therin that maladie whē then neuer before appeareth when it hath throughly conquered nature in a man And then they will say as the Physician did to the man which after his long cure dyed surely if thou haddest forborne to eate of this and that kind of meat thou mightest have lived longer But hereof it commeth that as those which are wounded when they want friends are constrained to seeke helpe of their enemies so euen those noble personages themselues being offenders in their places as they bee men and doe offend often hauing none of such their faithfull friends about them as will either admonish or gently reprooue them of their offences doe often heare of their faults afterward by their very enemies and that to their shame and sorrowe Truely the king knowing both the wisedome and faithfulnesse of his Mother and considering what a comfort and stay shee was vnto him not onely in those priuate things but also in the better administration of the kingdome with him hee did worthily honour her hee was glad to heare her hee disdained not to follow her wise directions placed her on a seat next vnto his royall maiestie when at any time hee sate to giue sentence of iudgement in matters of the highest importance But now this princely counsailor is taken away and the king seeth that the departure of such a pretious ornament of his pallace is a prognostication of trouble to them that remaine behinde her seeing that with the losse of such a member the common-wealth of Israel is depriued of much wisedome and many good things And in this respect The departure of Nathan The losse of good counsailors a pronostication of future troubles the death and departure of that excellent Prophet Nathan his Scholemaster and faithfull counsailor doth not a little grieue him at this time not only in that Nathan is dead but also in that the king by his departure is depriued of a most wise godly happy counsailor For truly this is one chief cause that a Prince should mourne namely when his graue Senatours and prudent Counsailors be taken from him for this is as if the eyes shoulde bee pulled from out of the head knowledge should faile in him that hath an office of waight to bee performed the stayes taken from an house and a staffe from him that leaneth thereto In this consideration our Fathers in the wildernesse lamented with aboundance of teares when Moses their Leader was taken from them and in this respect all Israel mourned mightily ouer Samuel the Lords Prophet when he dyed For these did see that in the departing away of those worthy Personages a great part of their glorie their weale their prosperitie their safetie and defence departed also with them for the taking away of most noble Kings worthy Princes graue Senatours godly Magistrates and vertuous persons Deut 3.1.16 God sheweth mercy to them among whom the godly do liue Gen. 7.10 is a common Pronostication of euill euents to ensue on them that remaine behind in the world from the which it often pleaseth the Lorde first to remooue and take to himselfe * such his seruants for whose sake or through whose ministery and meanes he hath beene willing to deferre or withhold from the people such wofull afflictions So long as Noah was yet remaining in the world without the Arke the Lorde stayed the waters that they should not fall to couer the earth but when Noah was embarked then by and by the destruction threatned was executed on them that remayned without the Arke The like we haue obserued in the ouerthrowe of Sodome and the Citties there-about Gen. 19.22.24 which was soone effected after that Lot was taken from thence Thus also during the dayes of Moses and the whiles Iosuah liued the wealth of Israel encreased and great prosperitie enioyed our fathers the which then began to bee molested and to decline after their vnhappy departure from Israel as the Story of the Iudges doth certifie vs. So as long as the Prophet Samuel iudged Israel the land enioyed peace yea and whiles bee liued king Saul retained his honour before his princes and the people and the people their saftie for hee was a rare Prophet well beloued of the Lorde hee was a noble Counsailour to Saul and a most wise director of him in all his affayres to whom whils he listned and followed his godly counsaile hee and his people prospered on euery side But after that hee reiected Samuel but especially after the death of Samuel Saul was so agonized for want of good counsaile that despayring of good successe hee slewe himselfe disgraced his house and the people were sorely afflicted Euen so while those two right noble and godly persons namely Bethsabe the Queene and Nathan the Prophet liued and prospered in Israel all things went well and the King and his people prospered in great honour and peace but surely sithence the departure of those two worthy members there is a kind of defect espied in many things yea aswel in the king as in his people as yee shall more plainely vnderstand when I shall rippe vp vnto you the seauenth cause of the kings sorowe Worthily therefore may the king bee greiued for the losse of his most princely mother no lesse for the death of the diuine Prophet and wise Counsailor Nathan as for the falling downe of two such principall pillars as by whose strength and counsaile both the king and the Common-wealth of Israel hath beene sithence the kings most hapy gouerment the better stayd vp and maintained in peace and prosperitie And in very deede said the Princes this may be no small grief to the King in our iudgement as now wee call to minde and consider how tenderly his mother loued him The princes assent to zadokes reede and how honorably the Prophet esteemed him againe how deere was th' one and how fauoured was th' other of his royal grace wee cannot but testifie And most happy were the King indeede of hee had well obserued that which the one taught The consent of the prince with the prophet a stay to the common wealth and a comfort to the Church and th' other confirmed in him in his and their happy daies For these two euer well agreede in the right ordering of the holy religion in the right institution of the King and in the well

breuitie for we haue beene here talking very long and it is more then time we were with his maiestie to giue him comfort in his afflictions Debarim The first worde in this title is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Debarim the which as ye know signifieth not onely bare words speeches sermons or orations but also matters thinges and causes yea and such as are not vulgar ordinary or common but rather graue profitable memorable and of price as such where of the kings father sometimes modulated saying Mine heart is willing to disclose a goodly thing Psalme 45.1 For in my workes I will report of Iah the King Such wordes vttered Moses the Lordes seruant before our fathers when he said hearken O ye heavens I shal speake Deut. 32. ● let the earth heare the wordes of my mouth And the like words the diuine preacher in his publike Sermons is wont to vtter declare vnto the people with great wisedome and grauitie for those indeede are the thinges which the king hath lately vttered and spoken of in the audience of vs and others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concinator and the which we purpose to gather and commit to writing The next word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Preacher or that Preacher This is made as well ye know of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to congregate to assēble and call people together to make a Church and is a participle rather feminine then masculine howbeit in this place let it be vsed for both that it may be referred aswell to the person as to the thinges or matters by him vttered Solomon a preacher Eccles. 1.12 And first as it signifieth a preacher or one preaching we may apply the word to the King who notwithstanding his great royaltie and glory disdaineth not this name appellatiue yea hee hath willingly admitted it by his owne choice For albeit hee bee no publike preacher or teacher in the Church which is a thing rather appertinent to the priests and Leuits yet in either gender the word rightly fitteth him First in regard of the singular wisdom which hath beene aboundantly gathered and noted in him For in him is gathered the wisedome and knowledge of all the Patriarks Prophets Maisters Teachers wise men the Lord hauing granted him wisedome and vnderstanding exceeding much and a large heart euen as the sand that is on the Sea shore Secondly in regard of his soule so wisely instructed or of the Church which is to receiue the doctrine of his wordes to the edification of the saintes Neither may it seeme strange vnto them which are acquainted with the wordes and phrases of holy write 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that this gendre is applyed to such a person who though masculine wee find to bee called Shelomoh as a person feminine tender delicate and peaceable or a faire and chast virgin whom a man affecteth and woweth in honest loue Howsoeuer it bee that some men not acquainted with our tongue may esteeme this title to be imposed on him for his vnmeasurable loue of women by the which hee was effeminated and changed in nature Thirdly he may be called Choheleth or Preacher in that hee spake not to one or to a few but before many great personages and others of diuers nations For as he hath spoken in the great assembly so are his words fit to instruct and teach all Fourthly as he hath had a speciall regard for the glory of the great God to the which he had built a magnificent house so as the figure of the holy Messiah which gathereth to himselfe teacheth and preserueth his holy church he hath a speciall care with that wisedome which the Lord had given him in his time to call together and to assemble the people into the same to the hearing of the lawe of GOD and performance of his right seruice as to him indéed it appertained The right office of a K. in 2 points Besides that the office of a King as ye well know is not onely to defend and rule the people but also as well by himselfe as by his prophets priestes and ministers by his commādement in their seuerall functions to teach and excite his subiects to feare the Lord and to walke in his wayes Fifthly hee may bee thus called For that beeing sufficiently schooled in his afflictions and repenting those his transgressions and sins before vs al he can best admonish and warne al others to flye that misery and trouble by contemning and abandoning the vanities of this guilefull worlde and to aspire in the feare of God to the highest felicitie they are called happy whō the harms exāples of others either séen or heard of can cause to be warie * In the second place the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may not vnaptly be applyed to the matter or cause it selfe which is handled The matter of the Booke or Words meete to be preached openly and then it soundeth as thus The words of the Sermon or preaching of the sonne of David For indeede as those words were vttred before appertaining to many as a publike Sermon or Oration or matters or causes so are they right excellent and worthy not only to bee read heard in the Churches or Congregations but also to bee preached and published in open sermons as the word not of man but of God and right profitable to instruct teach all men on the one side how to know and to estéeme of the world how to liue and order themselues in the world how to contemne eschew the vanities of the worlde on the other side how to knowe the right Good and how to walke in the world and to attaine the highest felicitie Therefore although the King bee no publike Preacher yet shall those his wordes be preached heard and estéemed of the people of God in the Church with all reuerence for their better instruction to the glory of God Thus haue I sayde of the person The difference betweene Solomon other preachers and their words with an emphasis and of his wordes Howbeit to make difference aswell betwéene him all other Preachers as betwéene those his words and the words of others as also to adde the more emphasis to either part haue wee prefixed this particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ha the which as ye know besides the note of a prepositiue article pointeth expositiuely to that speciall person and thing whereof there was mention made before as the King himselfe did when pointing to those things which hee had descried within the limites of vanities kingdome sayde And all that or that whole is vanitie Againe this particle being prefixed to a Nowne appellatiue addeth vnto it a singular emphasis or force as it is to be seene in the first Psalme where the Kings of father pointing to some excellent person sayd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blessed is that man So we say here The wordes of That singular Preacher or Congregator or