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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02488	King Dauids vow for reformation of himselfe. his family. his kingdome Deliuered in twelue sermons before the Prince his Highnesse vpon Psalm 101. By George Hakewill Dr. in Diuinity.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 12616; ESTC S103634	122,067	373

Thou fool this night shall they take thy soule from thee The Galathians thought themselves wiser than the other Gentiles for the observation of the legall Ceremonies but St. Paul in his Epistle to them calls them fooles for their labour And likewise the Pharises were held the wisest of all the Iewish Nation but our Saviour tels them to their faces they were but formal fools True Wisdome is then to bee found and only to be found in the perfect way There is a Divellish wisdome rather craft then wisdome maintained by dissimulation and lying and perjury such as was that of Boniface the eight Bishop of Rome who entred like a Fox raigned like a Lion and died like a Dog of Iezabell and Achttophel in practice and Machivell in precepts This wisdome runs a contrary biass to this perfect way it is directly opposite unto it and fights against it Again there is a Humane or rationall wisdome enlightned at the torch of right reason yet left amongst the remainders of Gods image in man and this though it be beside the perfect way yet may it bee reduced unto it good use no doubt may bee made of it And lastly there is a Divine holy and heavenly Wisdome whose beginning is the fear of God whose crowne is the favour of God whose guide is this perfect way the word of GOD which is therfore called a way because it leads us to our journeyes end and a perfect way because the Authour of it is the abstract of all perfection because it sufficiently containes in it all things requisite to bring us to perfection both of body and soule both of grace and glory and lastly because it makes those perfect that walk in it at least in regard of endeavour and the severall parts of perfection though not the degrees as a childe may bee said to bee a perfect man in that hee hath all the parts of a man though hee want the growth and strength of a man And if this way were thus perfect in Davids time what is it by the addition of so many parcels of Scripture since If it then gave wisdome to the simple Psal. 19. 7 if it made David beeing brought up but as a Shepheard wiser than his enemies than his ancients than his teachers Psal. 119 as an Angell of God in discerning right from wrong 2. Sa. 14. 17 able to guide the people by the skilfulnesse of his hands Psal. 78. 72 what kinde of wisdome is there which wee may not now gather from thence What depth of naturall Philosophy have we in Genesis and Iob what flowrs of Rhetorique in the Prophets what force of Logick in Saint Pauls Epistles what Art of Poëtrie in the Psalmes what excellēt morall Precepts not only for Private life but for the regiment of Families and Common-weales in the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes to which may be added in a second rank as very usefull though Apochryphall the book of Wisedome and Ecclesiasticus what reasonable and iust lawes haue wee in Leviticus and Deuteronomy which moved the great Ptolomey to hire the Septuagints to translate them into Greek what unmatchable antiquitie variety and wonderfull events and certaintie of storie in the books of Moses Iosuah the Iudges Samuel the Kings and Chronicles together with Ruth and Ester Ezra and Nehemiah and since Christ in the sacred Gospels and Acts of the Apostles and lastly what profound mysteryes have we in the Prophecies of Ezekiel and Daniel and the Revelation of Saint Iohn But in this it infinitely exceeds the Wisedome of all humane writings that it is alone able to make a man wise unto salvation 2. Tim. 3. 15. Vpon these considerations Charles the fift of France surnamed the Wise not onely caused the Bible to be translated into French but was himselfe very studious in the holy Scriptures And Alphonsus King of Arragon is said to have read over the whole Bible fourteen severall times with Lyraes notes upon it though he were otherwise excellently well learned yet was the law of God his delight more desired of him than gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also than hony and the hony-combe I will end this point with the Commandement of God himselfe to the King Deuteronomie 17 When he shall sit upon the throne of his kingdom hee shall write him a copy of this Law in a booke out of that which is before the Priests the Levites and it shall bee with him and hee shall reade therein all the dayes of his life that hee may learne to feare the Lord his God to keep all the words of this Law and these Statutes to doe them that his heart be not lifted up aboue his brethren and that he turne not aside from the Commandement to the right hand or to the left to the end that hee may prolong his dayes in his kingdome hee and his children in the midst of Israell And looke what was there given in charge to the King in generall was afterward commanded Iosuah a worthy Leader in particular Iosuah 1. 8. This booke of the lawe shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayst obserue to do according to all that is written therein For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then shalt thou have good success It followeth O when wilt thou come unto me The comming of God unto his children is either by the performance of his promises or by the speciall assistance of his Spirit or by the receiving of them unto himselfe Such as thinke this Psalme was penned before Davids comming to the Crowne understand these words of the performance of Gods promise in setting it upon his head and settling him in the regall Throne and then this to be the meaning O Lord I will tarry thy leasure and keep my selfe within the bounds of my dutie till thou hast accomplished that which thou hast promised unto mee though thou delay the matter and put me off I will bee content to walke in the perfect way and not once presume to step aside out of it to compass that which thou hast sayd thou wilt give me And according to this promise of his we may see how hee carried himselfe for although there were a great space betwixt his anoynting whereby hee was by Gods owne mouth proclaimed heire apparant to the Crowne after the death of Saul and his comming to it notwithstanding he had the hearts of the Subiects insomuch as the women in their songs extolled him above the King though the soule of Ionathan the Kings eldest sonne were fast linked to him and so hee might haue conceived hope to have made a strong party against Saul who daily provoked him by most cruell and unjust persecution yet David kept himselfe in his uprightness hee hasted not by any indirect attempt as did his sonne Absolon afterwards against himselfe to seeke his owne revenge nor to displace the King and his seed which hee knew in time were to be remoued