Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	david_n	king_n	samuel_n	1,895	5	9.9973	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

Chapter 6. An Angel of the Lord appeared unto Manoa and his wife who was barren promising them a sonne to be called Sampson that should deliver the Israelites out of the hands of the Philistims Iudg. 13. It was an Angell in Davids time which strooke the Israelites with the pestilence whereof died threescore and ten thousand and when David prayed put his sword up into his sheath and saved the rest the second booke of Samuel and twentie fourth Chapter Elias the Prophet was refreshed with meat and drink and in the strength thereof hee travelled fourtie dayes and fourtie nights even to Mount Horeb by the Ministerie of an Angell 1. Kings 19. Many legions of Angels environed the Prophet Elisha which his servant at his prayer his eyes being opened saw and beheld and all to defend him from the Assyrians that besieged Samaria 2. Kings 6. An Angell of the Lord slew in the campe of the Assyrians in one night an hundred fourscoure and five thousand men 2. Kings 19. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego being cast into the fierie Furnace by Nabuchadnezzar for not worshipping his golden Image were preserved alive and kept from hurt by an Angell of the Lord Daniel 3. It was an Angell that stopt the mouthes of the Lyons that they could not hurt Daniel that was cast into their Denne Daniel 10. The Angel Gabriel declared unto Zacharias that his wife should conceive with child and bring forth Iohn the Baptist in her old age Luk● 1. It was the same Angell that announced to the Virgine Mary that she should bring forth Iesus Christ our Saviour Luke 1. The same told the shepheards in the field of Christ his Nativitie and witnessed his resurrection and ascention into the heavens Mathew 28 Marke 16. Acts the first An Angell delivered the Apostles out of Prison Acts 5. An Angell freed Peter from his chaines Acts 12. and Paul and Silas Acts 16. An Angell comforted Paul upon the Sea and all those that were with him and delivered them from the Tempest Acts twentie seven All these Examples are out of the holy Scriptures which is of infallible truth and sheweth that to be which is spoken by the Prophet David in the foure and thirtieth Psalme That the Angell of the Lord pitcheth his tents round about them that feare him Now follow examples out of humane Writes and first to begin with a storie in Socrates lib. 6. cap. 6. and Sozomen lib. 8. cap. 4. When Arcadius was Emperour of Rome and Saint Chrysostome Bishop of Constantinople there was Gainas an Arrian and a Barbarian by profession who being powerfull and great went about to thrust Arcadius out of his Seat but the Emperour compounding with him sent him unto Constantinople with a troupe of horse and foot under the pay of the Emperour This man desired to have a peculiar Church for them of his owne Sect for the free exercising of their Religion which being denyed by the Emperour at the perswasion of Saint Chrysostome the Tyrant raised his forces in the night to spoyle and havocke the Citie But they were resisted the first and second night by the shew of a great Armie of tall and lustie men and so terrified that they durst doe nothing The third night the Tyrant himselfe thinking this to be but a fable came in his owne person with his whole Armie and found the same resistance wherewith being terrified hee fled into Tracia where hee was slaine most miserably Thus this great Citie was protected by the ministery of Angels as Hierusalem once was from the Tyran Zenacherib In the reigne of Pompilius King of Poland as the Polonian Chronicles doe report in the first booke and twelfth Chapter there came two men o● a venerable countenance and habit to the Court gate desiring entrance and entertainment but they were repulsed by the Porter Then they went to one Pyastus a man of excellent holinesse and charity who entertained them into his house very lovingly broached a Vessell of sweet Wine for their drinke and killed a fat Hogge for their meate which hee had prepared against the first tonsure of his sonne according to the custome of that Countrey These men or rather Angels finding this kinde entertainment caused the Vessell of sweet Wine to multiply so that the more they dranke the more still remained behinde and the Hogge also in like manner At last they wrought means that Pompilius the King being dead this good man was chosen King in his stead and then disparished and were never more seen Nicephorus in his seventeenth booke Chapter thirty five reporteth a strange storie of a Jewish childe This boy playing among other Christian children was brought into the Temple by the Priest to care the reliques of the Sacrament as the custome was who tooke it amongst his followes Which as soone as the Jew his father understood he put him into a fierie oven to be tormented to death his mother sought him up and downe the Citie not knowing what was done and at last after three dayes found him alive in the Oven from whence being taken there was no smell of fire about him Thus God protected by his Angell this poore childe Instinian the Emperour after hee knew thereof caused the boy and his mother to be baptized and the father who refused he caused to be crucified to death Under the Emperour Mauritius the Citie of Antioch was shaken with a terrible Earthquake after this manner There was a certaine Citizen so given to bountifulnesse to the Poore that hee would never suppe nor dine unlesse hee had one poore man to be with him at his Table Upon a certaine evening seeking for such a guest and finding none a grave old man met him in the Market-place cloathed in white with two companions with him whom hee entreated to suppe with him But the old man answered him That he had more need to pray against the destruction of the Citie and presently shooke his handkerchiefe against one part of the Citie and then against another and being hardly entreated forbore the rest Which hee had no sooner done but those two parts of the Citie terribly shaken with an Earthquake were throwne to the ground and thousands of men slain Which this good Citizen seeing trembled exceedingly To whom the old man in white answered and sayed By reason of charity to the poore his house and Familie were preserved And presently these three men which no question were Angels vanished out of sight This storie Sigubert in his Chron. reporteth Anne 585. Philip Melancthon reporteth That in a certaine Village neare unto the Citie Sygnea a woman sent her sonne into the wood to fetch home her Kine in the meane while such a snow fell that the boy could not returne home againe his parents the next day taking more care for the boy then for the kine went out to seeke him and within three dayes found him in the middest of the wood sitting in a faire place where no snow had fallen They demanded of him

foure causes by which men are mooved to this unnaturall act and concludeth that for none of them nor for any other cause what soever a man ought to lay violent and bloudy hands upon himselfe yea concludeth peremptorily that a better life after death doth not receive such to wit that wilfully and desperately murder themselves and die without repentance as commonly they doe But here it is to be observed that many which seeme to make away themselves are murdered and made away by the Divell and not by themselves for otherwise it were not possible that then should perish so strangely as they doe as when some have beene hanged with their knees almost touching the ground others upon a weake twigge not strong enough to beare the weight of the tenth part of their body others beene drowned in a puddle of water which plainely sheweth that the Divell either as the principall actor or at least as a helper was the procurer of their murders and not alwayes themselves And therefore I must needs say with Luther That both charity and conscience inhibites resolutely to judge all such to be damned that seeme to have made havocke of their owne lives for the mercy of God is incomprehensible and why may he not save the soules of them whose bodies he gave leave to the Divell to torment yea to destroy Besides we read of many holy women who in the time of persecution cast themselves into the deep stream to preserve their chastity from the violence of the wicked persecutours and yet were reputed in the Church for holy Martyrs Saint Augustines judgement is worthy to be learned and imitated of all concerning this matter who thus defineth the case Of these saith he I dare avouch nothing rashly it may be the Church of God was perswaded by divine authority to receive them into the number of Martyrs or it may be they did this act not being deceived after the manner of men but being commanded of God not erring but obeying as also we are to judge of Sampson now when God biddeth and without all doubt makes knowne his will who can call this obedience a crime who can accuse a duety of piety But a little after he giveth a caveat Ne divina iussio ullo nutet incerto that is that we be sure God bids for often times the divell translates himself into an Angell of light and wil feine a message from God which proceedeth from his owne malice All this is to be conceived only touching that extraordinary case of those holy women that drowned themselves and yet were held for Martyrs in the Church of God as for others that shall wilfully and wofully shed their owne blouds and rob themselves of that precious jewell of life which God hath given them to keep no doubt but as they commit a horrible and hainous crime so they incurre a horrible and fearefull judgement yea the very act it selfe is both a crime and a judgment a crime deserving a further judgment even eternall damnation in hell fire and a judgement and punishment of some notable sinnes comm●●ed by them before and of an ungodly and wicked life unrepented of The drift therfore purpose of these examples following is this to shew how the Lord punisheth oftentimes in men an ungodly life with voluntary and wilfull murder of themselves and this wilfull murder of themsel●es with eternall damnation after this life ended as a just recompence of their deserts and all to teach us repentance the onely means to prevent both these The first we reade of in holy Scripture that cruelly murdered himselfe with his owne hands was King Saul who as it is recorded of him was a most wicked man and a Tyran for being chosen from among all the people of Israel to be King by the Lords owne appointment and advanced as it were from the Plough to the Scepter he like a most ungratefull wretch kicked against his advancer and rebelled against his God that had done so great things for him yea hee not onely contemned his lawes and cast his commandements behind his backe but also proved a most cruell Tyran and shed much innocent blood amongst the rest of his cruelties this was the chiefe upon the false accusation of Doeg the Edomite he caused fourescore and five persons that were Priests and wore a linnen Ephod to bee staine at one time and Nob the Citie of the Priests to be smote with the edge of the sword both man and woman childe and suckling Oxe and Asse yea so wicked was he that when the Lord would not answer him neither by Prophets nor by dreames nor by any other meanes he went to take counsell of the Divell at the mouth of the Witch of Endor for all which his abominable wickednesse the Lord gave him over at last to so desperate a minde that rather than he would fall into the hands of his enemies he fell upon his owne sword and murdered himselfe Zimri also the King of Israel is set forth by the holy Ghost to be a wicked man and a traitor for he conspited against his master Ela the sonne of Baasha King of Israel and flew him as he was drinking in Tirza and proclaimed himselfe King in his roome but the army hearing thereof made Omri the Captaine of the hoste King who comming to besiege Tirza wherein Zimri was Zimri seeing that the Citie was taken went into the palace of the Kings house and there together with the house burnt himselfe rather than he would fall into the hands of his enemy Now the holy Ghost setteth it downe in plaine words that the Lord sent this judgement upon him for his sinnes which he had sinned in doing that which was evill in the of the Lord and walking in the way of Ieroboam who made Israel to sinne Achitophel that great Counsellor of State to King David of whom it is said that the counsell which he counselled was like the Oracle of God when hee saw that the counsell which hee gave was not followed but despised hee sadled his Asse and arose and went home into his owne citie and put his houshold in order and hanged himselfe And that this was Gods just vengeance upon him for his former wickednesse it may appeare both by his conspiracie with Absalom against his liege lord king David and also that wicked counsel which hee gave unto him of going in unto his fathers concubines in the sight of the people In the second booke of the Machabees is recorded a notable story of one Raz is an Elder of Jerusalem who is there set forth to bee a man of very good report constant in religion a father of the Jewes and a lover of the citie yet notwithstanding this man rather than hee would fall into the hands of Nicanor his enemy murdered himselfe after a most fearefull and savage manner for first hee fell upon his sword and when as for haste that stroke dispatched him not hee ran