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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06639	The King, and none under God, but the King, can save this nation. With a Welch prophesie (prophecied above a thousand years ago) now Englished and fulfilled to the admiration of all that reads it. / By William Williams, gent.	Williams, William, b. 1613.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2789; ESTC R186711	5,989	16

THE KING And none under GOD but the KING Can Save this NATION With a Welch Prophesie prophecied above a Thousand years ago now Englished and Fulfilled to the Admiration of all that reads it BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS Gent. ECCLES 8.4 Where the word of a KING is there is Power and who may say unto Him What dost Thou LONDON Printed by Thomas Creake 1660. The KING and none under God but the KING Can save this NATION BRethren it is not unknown unto you how Abraham the Father of all the faithful Gen. 14.18 19 20. Heb. 7.4 honoured Melchisedec King of Salem doing him homage and giving him tythes And how God in the conclusion of his promises to Abraham and Jacob and having changed their names Gen 17.6 Gen. 35.11 at last tells them that Kings should come out of their Loins imitating that to be the chief and greatest of all his blessings to them And if we consider the History of the Children of Israel and look upon their different condition when they had no King and when they had a King we shall find it so indeed for Moses who under God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt is called a King Deut. 33.5 to shew us that such a great work as that was could not be done without a King and under a single Person they Conquered the Land of Canaan Read the book of Ioshua but soon after Ioshua died Israel will be a free State without King or Single Person to do what is right in their own eyes they cast off God his Law they will have a pure liberty of Conscience to do what they list and to serve what God they please Iudg. 2.13 14 15. and some serves one false God and some another yea they were divided and devoted to serve seven Gods at once Iudg. 10.6 yet the true God came not into their minds until they are forced to cry unto him being sore oppressed for want of a King of their own by all the Kings round about them whose Gods they served but the Lord hearing their cry now and then giveth them a Deliverer to save them Iudg. 2.17 yet after they obey him not to serve the Lord. And when their Judge our Deliverer is dead Iudg. 2.19 they return unto their folly free state again not regarding God nor his Law that they might do what is right in their own eyes so that the true worship of God is not mentioned to have been in all the time of the book of Iudges and all the reason given to shew us why the Children of Israel were so ungodly unrighteous and in such misery during that time is because they had no King Iudg. 17.6 7. as you see Micah sets up an Idol Iudg. 18. the Danites rob him of it the men of Gebeah like the Sodomites use the Levit and his Wife Iudg 19. and this was their doings when they had no King Iudg. 2.14 the stronger destroys the weaker and the Kings of the Nations round about them Iudg. 6.2 3 4 5 6. destroy them oppresse them Iudg. 5.6 7 8. drive them into holes 1 Sam. 13.19 20. takes all their Arms from them suffers them to have no Smiths among them 1 Sam. 14.11 22. so that when God is pleased to raise them a Deliverer or Judge to bring them into a little better condition he having no other weapon sometimes must overcome their enemies with an oxe Goad or the jaw bone of an Ass and in such misery they continued until the time of Samuel four hundred and fifty years Iudg. 3 31. Iudg. 15.16 Act. 14.20 and when they had a King Saul by name though as bad as some count him yet he delivered Israel from all their enemies and did for the Children of Israel put all their actions together more then all their Judges in 400. years had done 1 Sam. 14.47 48. We need not compare that time to our present time every one can apply it and see that as the Israelites were delivered from Egypt so we were delivered from Popery and as they had a Law made for them to worship God so we had a Law made for us to worship God as they cast off the true service of God to serve Baal Ashtaroth and all the Gods of the Nations and were spoiled by them so we cast off the true service of God to serve Independents Anabaptists Levellers Renters Quakers with many more Sects and were spoiled by them we may see our own condition by theirs as a man seeth his face in a looking Glass and we may conclude also with them that all this is come upon us because we have no King and desire the Lord to give us a King Doubtlesse the Gods of these Nations had as delightful pleasing deluding power to draw the corrupt nature of man to their service as that power we see now hath to draw men to the Sectaries of our times so that it was hard for Israel to live among them and not to be deluded by them and drawn away from the true God therefore they were commanded to destroy their Altars and utterly to consume both them and their worshippers Deut. 7.1 2 5. Deut. 12.2 3. Iudg. 2.2 3. And now to the History again Samuel had setled his Sons to be Judges in Israel and they took bribes and perverted Judgment 1 Sam. 8.5 6 7 8. and because of that all the Elders of Israel came to Samuel and said unto him behold thou art old and thy Sons walk not in thy ways now make us a King to Judge us like all the Nations but the thing displeased Samuel when they said give us a King to Judge us and Samuel prayed unto the Lord and the Lord said unto Samuel hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not Reign over them according to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of the Land of Egypt even unto this day wherewith they have forsaken me and served other Gods so they do also unto thee 1 Sam. 10 18 19. thus the Lord answered Samuels prayer and he took it in this sence that the people in rejecting him rejected the Lord and Samuel all along holds it forth so making the people to be great sinners in ●●●ing a King but the Elders of Israel took it in this sence that as the people did formerly reject the Lord to be their God and served other Gods so now they doe reject Samuel and would have a King for so the word of the Lord holds it forth saying they have forsaken me served other Gods so doth they also unto thee 1 Sam. 8.8 and the Elders would not at all cross the good old man in his saying who was now displeased but lets him have it yet notwithstanding Samuels words they will have a King and will stand firme for him for all Samuels perswasion to