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A06191	The kings shoe Made, and ordained to trample on and to treade downe Edomites; to teach in briefe, what is Edoms doome; what the carefull condition of the king, what the loyall submission of a subiect, and what proiects are onely to best purpose. Deliuered in a sermon before the king at Theobalds, October the ninth, 1622: by William Loe, Doctour of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiestiy in ordinary.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 16686; ESTC S104104	30,137	54

a pledge of mine vnfeined loue and affection but also as a peece of my thankfulnesse intending it also to the benefite of others The God of heauen blesse you both in all your legall and godly affaires prosper you your children and all your whole tribe and grant you and all yours eternall happinesse in the 〈◊〉 mercies of Christ in whom I am Yours much deuoted and e●…er to be commanded WILLIAM LOE THE KINGS SHOOE or Edoms doome PSAL. 60. 8. Ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe 1. GOds Direction is the soule of this Psalme and the Kings Action is the body of the same The State is troubled the King prayeth God answereth and directeth and accordingly the King acteth The people haue a part whose calamities touch the Kings heart God pittieth them at the instance of the King promiseth him and them better successe In confidence whereof the King purposeth proiecteth and he and his through God doe valiantly 2. Michtam of Dauid or the golden Psalme is the title of this celestiall song No monument columne statue or Pyramis more memorable more remarkable in perpetuam rei memoriam then this Epigraphe or Inscription to teach both Prince and people what to doe and how to deale in cases of greatest import and consequence How to the humble when we are humbled and where to seeke refuge when we are distressed what to doe and how to deale with persons of all rankes estates qualities and conditions 3. Composed was this Psalme at what time the King stroue with Aram Naharim and with Aram Zobah in the vallye of salt where Abishai the brother of Ioab at the first onset slew sixe thousand and Ioab prosecuting the victorie slew twelue thousand more in which conflict and slaughter of eighteene thousand Siria was cleane vanquished and subdued 4. Yet hath not the King his Quietus est Idumaea also is to be subiected for they of Edom had rebelled and ayded Siria Nunquam bella bonis nunquam dissidia cessant Sed quocum certet mens pia semper habet The King therefore consults God touching his purpose and intendment against the Idumaeans laies forth to view former calamities happened to his people whereby he moueth God to pittie them Afterward receiuing warrant from God and grounding his confidence thereon hee resolueth with himselfe and encourageth his armie to doe valiantly This is the occasion title and summe of this psalme 5. The text hath a twofold reference the one to the context what God speakes in this psalme The other to what God hath taught me to speake to the soule of this regall Auditorie from the light of this psalme God speakes verse 6. and the king acts v. 6. 7. 8. God giues warrant and the king giues warning God speakes in his Holinesse or from his holy place or by his holy one the Messiah and the king goes on reioycing Deuideth Shechem Meeteth out the valley of Succoth Appropriateth Gilead and Manasses Makes Ephraim his counsel Shewes that Iuda is imperiall Depresseth Moab Hath Philistia in derision And resolueth ouer Edom to cast out his shooe The other reference looks to what God teacheth me to say hence and leadeth me to the Topique of Obedience in the booke of Homilies This Obedience also hath a double reflect The one vpward in the kings obedience vnto his God the king of kings The other downewards reflecting vpon the people in their obedience and euangelicall allegeance vnto the king their naturall Leige Lord and Soueraigne 6. In the text I see three passages in great fulnesse 1. An Agent 2. A Patient 3. A Proiect. 1. The Agent is the person of a king and by way of Excelling of the king euen of king Dauid a man after Gods owne heart indeed Gods deare Darling Annointed From whose person issueth in the Revewe 1. A Power to act Projiciam 2. An intendment or rather a resolution to act I will 3. A regall Extent Out and Ouer to wherein is exquisite skill I will cast out ouer 2. The Patient is Edom or Idumaea the land where Esau dwelt and of him is called Edom. 3. The Proiect is that Edom must be subdued and more then that for it must be so subdued that it must be subiected euen vnto vilenesse expressed in that then vsuall and prouerbiall manner of speech in casting out a shoe so the text speaketh plainely Ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe The life of this text together with the remarkable Praecedents and Subsequences begins motion at the sixt verse of this Psalme as I haue said from whence as from a fountaine of liuing waters this Kingly Power Purpose Proiect and Resolution receiue Strength Warrant Guidance and effectuall Operation God speakes and decrees and many noble wise worthy waighty and excellent affaires are really and actually performed For Kings haue much to doe God guide them The text admits a double sence and meaning the one plaine and obvious in the letter or history The other couched more abstrusely in the mistery or prophecie In the mystery by the spirit of Prophecy is meant by casting out a Shoe ouer Edom the spirituall enlargement of the territories of the Kingdome of the Messias by the preaching of the Gospell vnto the Gentiles such as those Idumaeans or Edom were amongst which people the Gospell should take footing and leaue steps and prints behind it of glad tydings and euerlasting happinesse to the people Deepely and diuinely in this kind haue laboured Saint Ambrose Nazianzene and Gregory More plainely and yet pithily Clemens Alexandrinus Origen Chrysostome and Cyrill besides Saint Augustine Hieronyme and moderne writers sans number I purpose not to dwell or once to deale in the mystery The plaine letter and this familiar ordinary prouerbiall phrase in the history affoords a fulnesse to my purpose the various readings whereof I now set out in a vewe that it may be the better vnderstood Saint Ierome reades the text thus Super Idumaeam incedam calciamento meo that is to say I will goe or treade vpon Idumaea with my shoe The Tygurines render it as it is here translated to my hand The Chaldee Paraphrase makes the text speake thus I haue set my Shoe vpon the collors of the ●…ecks of the stoutest Idumaeans or as Nebiensis hath it My Shoes haue trode vpon their necks in the hinder parts Apollinarius metaphraseth it into Ante Idumaeam The Talmudists vnderstand it without limitation conceiuing that all the land of Canaan should first haue beene subdued before ●…ny other nation had beene dealt withall And ●…eare not to affrōt Dauid herewith saying that he ●…iolated Gods purpose in subduing Mesopotamia Syriah Zobah as is plain in the title of this Psal. ●…nd yet suffered the Iebusites to dwell in Ierusa●…m and so neere his Court The Septuagint ●…ade the text with this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Saint Ambrose renders by Ambulare or Ingredi both ●…hich import

to be bruised to be broken ●…d to haue their backs alwayes bowed downe ●…d neuer to bee able to hold vp their imperious ●…d profane purposes Let them haue their de●…rt pay them their hire as the Lord haue spo●…n it And thinke not Dread Soueraigne that ●…u shall escape the scorne of Edomites For when ●…od shall take away your breath o noble lion ●…nd lions must die a liuing dogge with such pro●…ne persons shall be more pretious then a dead ●…n yea those stinking dead flies will corrupt the ●…eete oyntment of the Apothecarie Trample ●… and treade downe therefore all those enemies ●… your God of his Church of your court cities ●…d Countryes Let none of those wicked ones ●…nd in your presence cut them off from your ●…ourt suffer them not to liue nor to tarrie in ●…ur sight So shall you destroy all the wicked of ●…e land and cut off all wicked doers from the ●…ity of the Lord so shall you aduance Ephra●…tes depresse Edomites supplant profanenesse ●…d tread downe wickednesse euen to the ground God preserued Iaphet to dwell in the tents of Sem. The second of these obseruations I see in v●…hilico Psalmi which is that The height of Soueraigntie is dayly encumbered with an exceeding waight and world of occurrences affaires and deepe designes all of surpassing and especiall care singular skill exquisite cunning and important consequence 1. Incumbred I say on all sides vpon all occasions See the context the people are cast off The king must interceede to bring them in againe The people are scattered and God is angry with them the King must cry to God O turne thee to vs againe If the land tremble with feare be broken with faction shake with the breaches thereof The king is importuned to cry Heale the breach●… oh Lord. Let hard things attend the state and ●… God make the land drinke the wine of Astonishment The king must cry for an ensigne to be displayed that his beloued may bee deliuered th●… God may saue with his right hand and m●… heare the king when he calleth vpon him In case of famine the woman that was dec●… ued by her neighbour in the siege of Samari●… when they were constrained in the famine to e●… their owne children and to make their wombes tombes to bury their seede the king was importuned by the women with Helpe my Lord oh King and the King is constrained to answer their importunity with this If the Lord doe not helpe thee how shall I helpe thee In case of the plague of pestilence the King is perplexed and cryeth when hee saw the Angell of the Lord smite the people Loe I haue sinned and I haue done wickedly but these sheepe what haue they done let thine hand I pray thee be against me and against my fathers house In case of warre and hostility be it either domestique or forraine who is called vpon whom doth it concerne more who mustereth who mastereth the occasioned occurrences but the king Thus be it Dearth Death or Deuill that troubleth the State the King lyes at stake for all Doe you thinke the case is otherwise in Plenty peace or prosperity Surely nothing lesse 2. For Plenty in some States is oft times more intollerable then Penury Prodigall bloods are then most ranke and most vnquiet Haue not I seene Maiestie petitioned against the cheapenesse of corne yea and I remember well how it mooued passion into extremity and that most iustly For what should a father doe that carefully hath prouided for his children to feede plentifully and then they exclaime of being too full In Peace ●…he stirring braines of a State are neuer at rest in ●…euising Monopolies Exemptiōs Engrosings what ●…ot And who in all these and the like is importuned and incumbered but the king Many driuers but few that can hold the plow aright as the old verse saith yea here one only stands and must looke to all All rankes and conditions referre vnto the King Peeres Prelates People All euen from sea to sea and from the riuer to the lands end Some for their bodies that are ●…othsomely diseased some for their minds that are distressed some for their children some for their state Of all some vpon some pretence or other Who is troubled with forraign affaires but the king who releeueth the carefull and aduenturous Merchant in transmarine parts but the Kings alliance and reference with the States beyond the seas Saint Augustine wrote a tract De cura pro mortuis gerenda I am sure none better then Kings may write De cura pro vi●… gerenda yea and pro mortuis too For if a subiect come to a violent and vntimely end doth not the Coroner inquire of his death that the Kings Delegates may bee assertained how the Kings subiect came by his death and order is taken accordingly A purblinde Paynime could say of the carefull Condition and restlesse state of Kings and statesmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. Calling Kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The peoples sheepheards Of which Analogie Philo Plato Aristotle Clemens Alexandrinus Basile and Procopius haue lately descanted The plaine song Euthymius in his preface to the booke of the Psalmes hath briefly deliuered Shewing that the king who composed this Psalme was by Gods direction first taught by a shepheards sollicitous imployment how to gouerne a State and was fitted thereunto at the first by his carefullnesse amongst and ouer vnreasonable creatures Whereby he afterwards conceiued the more readily and practised more diligently how to Watch to Striue for his flocke to expose himselfe to dangers to Contend against wild beasts theeues famine cold to goe out and in before them to call them to the pastures to the shades to the fountaines of running water to recall them to the folds to cause them to flocke with his Croke with his voice with his whistle with his pipe sometimes chearing them sometimes deterring them sometimes curbing them sometimes curing them in all desiring not onely to haue them his fat flocke but also his well disposed and well ordered slocke That so he might feede them according to the integrity of his heart and guide them by the skilfulnesse of his hands Which Caietaine expresseth thus with innocency of heart Prudence of head and Example of hand Kings then you see haue their Hearts full their Heads full and their Hands full Cast ' your eye once more vpon the Context Is there cause of Diuision The king must haue skill in Arithmetique Of mensuration He must bee a good Geometrician Of Appropriation A spirit of Discretion is required in him Of Election for Counsell Many circumstances in that Realtie to be considered Doth he longe Prospicere alteri saeculo serere Not onely profound but euen in a manner propheticall skill is to be sought for Stand there Opposites in the way Cunning yea exceeeding Cunning of which word antiquaries haue deriued king quasi Cūning to be

Conculcation So that all agree in ●…is that by Extention Immission or Proiection of the shoe eyther vpon the neckes of people or ouer their Countries is meant nothing els but to ouercome subdue bring vnder power possesse and subiect euen to vilenesse such men and such Countries The very vulgar acceptation of the word Possession in the Grammaticall sence importeth as much For the etimologie of Possessio is no more but Pedū positio This manner of speaking also hath allusion to the positiue Law recorded in Deut. For the letter of the Lawe is that if the kinsman would not marry the brothers widow and raise vp seede vnto his brother The widow loosing his shoe and spitting in his face he lost the claime and interest of such possessions as belonged to the woman in right of her husband And the house of such a man was called Domus Discalceati that is to say The house of him that had his shoe loosed The practise also of this lawe we finde recorded in the booke of Ruth in the case of Elimelecks land betweene Boos and the kinsman about the widow Ruth who had her interest by right of her husband in the said land Moreouer the frequent vse of this phrase meeting vs very often in the booke of God makes this to be the meaning of the words as cleere as the day This king else-where singing his trophe●… saith They are fallen vnder my feet Caleb the son 〈◊〉 Iephunneth shall possesse the land hee hath trod●… vpon But the people must not meddle with Mo●… Seir for God would not giue them thereof so much as a footes breadth yet euen the place whereon the soles of their feet should tread from the Wildernesse of Lebanon and from the riuer Euphrates vnto the vtmost sea should be theirs If wee take the words yet more properly and punctually as the shooe to be first taken off and so cast out and ouer then the words signifie not Subiugation only but Debellation also of the proud and imperious Idumaeans The prouerbiall phrase importing that ●…hose stout-hearted people should be glad to carry shooes after the King and further implying ●…hat these Idumaeans or Edomites were not wor●…hy to come so neere vnto the Kings person as to ●…ntie the latchet of his shooe and therefore 〈◊〉 defiance of them the king would cast off his ●…ooe out at them and ouer them to yea as af●…erward it came to passe in the daies of Amos the ●…rophet that the wicked rich men sold the poore ●…r shooes whereby was signified the base esteeme ●…ey rated the poore at so now was Edom estee●…ed in the eyes of the king For he now purpo●…th and resolueth to be vnto them as Asher of ●…hom Moses prophesieth that his shooes should be ●…n and brasse to bruise breake and subdue where ●…er he came Lastly Antiquitie tells vs as much ●…r as the manner is now adaies in the beleague●…g of a Citie the Assailants oft-times cast their ●…signes ouer the Wall into the Citie not only to courage their souldiers to follow their colours ●…t also in token that they resolue not to depart thence vntill they haue wonne the Citie so in ancient times they vsed to cast ouer the Walls their Gauntlets Gloues or Shooes to betoken the same things Thus it is plaine by seuerall readings of the text by positiue law and practise of the same by scripture phrase and approued Antiquity that the Intendment and absolute resolution of the king was to subdue and subiect as hee had done Moab to be his Pollubrum so Edom also to be his Scabellum that is euen to Conculcation 10. What scruple now should let the king thus to resolue The Lord God of heauen had taught the king and he knew well how to distinguish betweene an Edomite and an Ephramite otherwise he would neuer haue placed the one at his head the other at his foot The one to be the strength of his counsell the other to feele the waight and crushing of his foot Besides the king had a faire President before him Iosuah at Gods command had done the like to the kings of Ierusalem Hebron Iarmuth Lachish and Eglon fiue in number vpon whose necks he caused his Captaines an●… men of warre to put their feet in Triumph and s●… not to feare or to be dismaied for God wou●… doe so to all their enemies against whom the●… should fight The like also Iosuah hauing receiue●… warrant from God did to the Gibeonites who●… he made hewers of wood and drawers of wa●… to the whole congregation putting them vnd●… tribute and as it were setting his foot vpon the●… euery one knowing that by the shooe both Sy●… dochicos and Metonymic●…s is vnderstood the foot When Moses and Iosuah were commanded to loose their shooes from of their feet What other thing was meant thereby but that God would subdue Pharoh and his to the one and Iericho and hers to the other And to assure them that those who haue the Lord of hosts for their guide need not feare or depend vpon humane power because they dwell vnder the protection of the Almightie Shooes we vse to saue our feet from euery offence that may happen in our iourneying but those that relie vpon the Lord of hosts and resolue with their God shall not need to trust in the arme of flesh for rather then faile innumerable and inuisible armies of Angels shall bee commanded to see that they dash not their feet against a stone In all this Explication I see foure things tending to Application which are these 1. The trampling on and treading downe of Profanenesse by the King 2. The exceeding carefull condition of a King 3. The loyall submission of a Subiest And 4. A Direction for the purposes and proiects of both The first of these we see in this ●…oble Kings purpose and designe which is Ouer Edom to cast out his shooe whereby wee learne that It is a regall resolution to trample ●…n and to tread downe Prophanenesse ●…n Church Citie Court and Countrie bee it in what personages soeuer God tels the King that Conculcation is Edoms doome and the King resolues to doe it 1. Edom is Esau and Esau is a prophane person so the spirit of God speaketh of Esau. Least there be any fornicatour or prophane person as Esau who for one morsell of meat sold his birth-right Prophane persons care not for any title claime or interest to heauen so they may enioy their sinnes without Controlement and haue the pleasures of this world albeit they continue but a short time Edom is Profanenesse and Edomites are prophane persons who are well knowne to the King by their Crie Crueltie Pride Rebellion Riot Contempt of God and scorning of good men and all goodnesse The cry of Edom is Downe with it Downe with it euen to the foundation thereof Albeit this crie exasperate the raising of holy Ierusalem In the